{"id":8,"date":"2015-08-01T06:51:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T06:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twinkiesanddonutsfilm.com\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2015-09-07T18:24:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T18:24:45","slug":"about-the-film","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/twinkiesanddonutsfilm.com\/?page_id=8","title":{"rendered":"About The Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SYNOPSIS\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An inquisitive seven year-old girl demands to learn about \u201cthe facts of life\u201d from her reluctant father in this comedic short film.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DIRECTOR\u2019S STATEMENT<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the precocious age of seven, I approached my father with the burning question that every child eventually comes to ask his or her parents: \u201cWhere do babies come from?\u201d My dad took a deep breath, sat me on the couch and began explaining the age-old question to me while illustrating the male and female organs with a pen and pad of paper in hand.\u00a0 After he completed telling me about \u201cthe birds and the bees,\u201d the biggest follow-up question I had for him was, \u201cDoes mom know about this?\u201d\u00a0 He then laughed and jotted down my question on the same page he had drawn those ridiculous pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Years later in college, my screenwriting professor gave me a short writing assignment where I had to write a scene that dealt with comedic awkwardness.\u00a0 Trying to think of an idea, I went home that weekend and I happened to stumble upon the illustrations and notes my dad made the day he explained \u201cthe facts of life\u201d to me.\u00a0 The memory of having \u201cthe talk\u201d with my dad brought a big smile to my face, and it was at that moment that I knew what my short script would entail.\u00a0 And to make the scenario even more awkward, I decided instead to have the father character explain \u201cthe horizontal mambo\u201d to his inquisitive daughter rather than to his son.\u00a0 After completing the assignment, I put it on the shelf for seven years and completely forgot about it.\u00a0 Until one day, the script was staring me right in the face and I then had an epiphany to make it into a short film. <em>Twinkies &amp; Donuts<\/em> has truly been a journey over twenty years in the making, and I am thrilled to now share it with the world &#8212; especially with those who still believe they were delivered to their parents by some giant bird, much like the face of Vlasic Pickles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SYNOPSIS\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An inquisitive seven year-old girl demands to learn about \u201cthe facts of life\u201d from her reluctant father in this comedic short film.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DIRECTOR\u2019S STATEMENT<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the precocious age of seven,<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twinkiesanddonutsfilm.com\/?page_id=8\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6zr3u-8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinkiesanddonutsfilm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinkiesanddonutsfilm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinkiesanddonutsfilm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinkiesanddonutsfilm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinkiesanddonutsfilm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/twinkiesanddonutsfilm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/twinkiesanddonutsfilm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinkiesanddonutsfilm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}