{"id":2340,"date":"2022-11-29T21:32:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/?page_id=2340"},"modified":"2022-12-17T12:27:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T12:27:53","slug":"the-first-wave","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/the-first-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The First Wave\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t6vzpi0XpqM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Directed by Jimmy Gannon | Country of Origin: Australia | Runtime:9:53 | Short Film<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>A family driving along a quiet country road are about to have a close encounter of the third kind. The parents try to calm their daughter who&#8217;s crying in the back seat, but maybe her cries are a warning of the danger ahead&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Director Biography &#8211;&nbsp;Jimmy Gannon<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfreeway-production-storage-01-storage.filmfreeway.com\/press_kits\/headshots\/002\/002\/674\/original\/ac7f7a91a4-headshot.jpg?1644198700\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jimmy is a 37-year-old filmmaker based in Sydney, Australia. Jimmy&#8217;s background is not in film but in the Royal Australian Navy where he served for nearly 20 years. In 2017, Jimmy&#8217;s love for film took him to Vancouver, Canada where he worked at a production rental house. During this time, he met other filmmakers and worked on multiple short films. He also co-wrote, co-produced and directed the photography on his first feature film &#8216;Murder Box&#8217;. Upon returning to Sydney, he and his wife had their first child, Stevie. Stevie was the inspiration for producing his own short film &#8216;Selfies&#8217;. She was also a major player in his latest short film &#8216;The First Wave&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directed by Jimmy Gannon | Country of Origin: Australia | Runtime:9:53 | Short Film A family driving along a quiet country road are about to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2341,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2340","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2537,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2340\/revisions\/2537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}