{"id":152,"date":"2015-01-09T00:16:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T00:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesfranconetwork.net\/?p=152"},"modified":"2015-01-09T00:16:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T00:16:04","slug":"james-francos-yosemite-to-close-slamdance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"James Franco\u2019s \u2018Yosemite\u2019 to Close Slamdance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/james-franco-new-book.jpg\" alt=\"james-franco-new-book\" width=\"670\" height=\"377\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-153\" srcset=\"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/james-franco-new-book.jpg 670w, http:\/\/james-franco.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/james-franco-new-book-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Slamdance Film Festival has selected James Franco\u2019s drama \u201cYosemite\u201d as its closing-night film on Jan. 29.<\/p>\n<p>Franco, who produced through his Rabbit Bandini company, will attend the world premiere screening as part of Slamdance\u2019s \u201cCoffee With\u201d program.<\/p>\n<p>Gabrielle Demeestere directed the film from her own script in an adaptation of three of Franco\u2019s short stories. \u201cYosemite,\u201d set in the fall of 1985, follows the intertwining tales of three 4th grade friends in the suburban paradise of Palo Alto as the threat of a killer mountain lion looms over the community.<\/p>\n<p>Past \u201cCoffee With\u201d guests have included Chad Hurley and the Russo Brothers; Jonathan Demme and Neil Young; Ted Hope and Vilmos Zsigmond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to have such a talented and passionate supporter of independent film sit down and share his knowledge and experience with the Slamdance filmmakers,\u201d said festival director Anna Germanidi.<\/p>\n<p>Slamdance, launched in 1995 as an alternative to Sundance, will take place Jan. 23-29 in Park City, Utah, at the Treasure Mountain Inn. The Slamdance feature competition is limited to films from first-time directors and made with budgets under $1 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2015\/film\/news\/james-francos-yosemite-to-close-slamdance-exclusive-1201395535\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Slamdance Film Festival has selected James Franco\u2019s drama \u201cYosemite\u201d as its closing-night film on Jan. 29. Franco, who produced through his Rabbit Bandini company, will attend the world premiere screening as part of Slamdance\u2019s \u201cCoffee With\u201d program. Gabrielle Demeestere directed the film from her own script in an adaptation of three of Franco\u2019s short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sundance","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}