{"id":21591,"date":"2017-10-03T08:42:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T00:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=21591"},"modified":"2017-10-03T14:45:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T06:45:45","slug":"birdshot-is-phs-bet-for-2018-oscars-foreign-language-film-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/10\/03\/birdshot-is-phs-bet-for-2018-oscars-foreign-language-film-category\/","title":{"rendered":"Birdshot is PH\u2019s bet for 2018 Oscars \u2018Foreign Language Film\u2019 Category"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birdshot by director Mikhail Red is now making waves as it becomes PH\u2019s entry to the prestigious 2018 Academy Awards in the foreign language film category.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21592\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/10\/19884214_1902359103360088_8319868689729288622_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>\/IMAGE Birdshot&#8217;s Facebook page<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The film tells the story of \u201ca young farm girl who wanders off into a forest reserve in the Philippines. Deep within the reservation, she mistakenly shoots and kills a critically endangered and protected Philippine eagle. As the local authorities begin a manhunt to track down the poacher of a national bird, their investigation leads them to an even more horrific discovery,\u201d as described on Birdshot\u2019s Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21593\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/10\/21992952_1936851359910862_56108066515123018_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/10\/21992952_1936851359910862_56108066515123018_o.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/10\/21992952_1936851359910862_56108066515123018_o-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/10\/21992952_1936851359910862_56108066515123018_o-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/10\/21992952_1936851359910862_56108066515123018_o-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/10\/21992952_1936851359910862_56108066515123018_o-90x90.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>\/IMAGE Birdshot&#8217;s Facebook page<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The film was selected by a committee of the Film Academy of the Philippines. Birdshot also previously won the Best Picture award at the Asian Future Competition 29<sup>th<\/sup> Tokyo International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interaksyon.com\/birdshot-is-official-ph-entry-to-2018-oscar-best-foreign-language-derby\/\">interaksyon.com<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BirdshotMovie\/\">Birdshot\u2019s Facebook page<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the best for #BirdshotMovie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4071],"class_list":["post-21591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-birdshot-movie"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/10\/19884214_1902359103360088_8319868689729288622_n-e1507013109972.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21595,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21591\/revisions\/21595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}