{"id":68500,"date":"2016-01-09T22:39:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T03:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=68500"},"modified":"2016-01-09T22:39:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T03:39:43","slug":"edmonton-international-film-festival-selected-as-qualifier-for-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/01\/09\/edmonton-international-film-festival-selected-as-qualifier-for-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton International Film Festival selected as qualifier for Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_68501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68501\" style=\"width: 1840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12068626_1158637267487468_6280584507159124772_o.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68501\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68501\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12068626_1158637267487468_6280584507159124772_o.jpg\" alt=\"(Facebook photo)\" width=\"1840\" height=\"1228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12068626_1158637267487468_6280584507159124772_o.jpg 1840w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12068626_1158637267487468_6280584507159124772_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12068626_1158637267487468_6280584507159124772_o-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12068626_1158637267487468_6280584507159124772_o-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1840px) 100vw, 1840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/edmontonfilmfest\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook photo<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>EDMONTON\u2014The Edmonton International Film Festival has been selected by the Academy Awards as an Oscar-qualifying festival.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 EIFF award winners in the short film categories of live action and animation will move on for consideration by members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Oscars.<\/p>\n<p>Festival producer Kerry Long says the \u201camazing recognition\u201d is the result of many years of hard work by everyone on the festival team.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty film festivals across the globe are awarded the honour.<\/p>\n<p>EIFF is the only western Canadian film festival\u2014and one of only four in Canada\u2014with Oscar-qualifying status.<\/p>\n<p>The EIFF features veteran and up-and-coming directors, writers, producers and actors and their work.<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 festival included 55 feature-length films and more than 100 short films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON\u2014The Edmonton International Film Festival has been selected by the Academy Awards as an Oscar-qualifying festival. The 2016 EIFF award &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,2,16],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-68500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}