{"id":20349,"date":"2018-07-28T05:52:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T05:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/?p=20349"},"modified":"2018-07-28T05:52:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T05:52:24","slug":"screening-end-with-blindspotting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/screening-end-with-blindspotting\/","title":{"rendered":"Screening End with Blindspotting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GIFF comes to a close with the Closing Gala, where the film <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blindspotting<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, directed by Carlos L\u00f3pez Estrada, will be screened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before the screening, the audience will witness one final Red Carpet, where they will see the stars of this feature film, the feature debut for this director from Mexico City. Having studied at Chapman University in the U.S. \u2014where he has lived since he was 12\u2014, Carlos L\u00f3pez Estrada built his career directing commercials, music videos and short films. En 2015 he directed his first narrative project, a short film called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Identity Theft<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It tells the story of Collin \u2014who must go through his final days on parole before he gets a new start\u2014 and Miles, his childhood best friend. Collin witnesses a police shooting, which puts their friendship to the test as they lead with conflicts of identity and a changing reality in the neighborhood they grew up which is now going through gentrification<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Co-written by and starring Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal, this is a story filled with energy and humor on topics such as friendship and the intersection of race and class in Oakland. Join us in celebrating the end of this edition of GIFF, today at 20:30 hrs at the Ju\u00e1rez Theater.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Closing Gala presents a story of true friendship<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20350,"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20349\/revisions\/20350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}