{"id":4646,"date":"2016-01-30T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T02:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=4646"},"modified":"2016-01-29T17:38:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T09:38:51","slug":"love-in-the-time-of-march-madness-makes-it-to-oscars-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/love-in-the-time-of-march-madness-makes-it-to-oscars-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Love in the Time of March Madness&#8217; makes it to Oscar\u2019s shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4647\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/01\/loveintime-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"loveintime\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Another Filipino creates waves in the US Film industry as Fil-Aussie director Robertino Zambrano\u2019s \u201cLove in the Time of March Madness\u201d makes it to Oscar\u2019s Animated Short Film Category shortlist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The movie, which is also co-directed by Melissa Johnson, is about a 6\u20194\u2019\u2019 basketball star struggling to find true love. It\u2019s a story of Melissa, an 8<sup>th<\/sup> grader, who ensues in a hilarious and at the same time awkward misadventures. It\u2019s also about embracing differences that will tell people a lot about love and other life experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">According to Zambrano, his film was intended to be a six-month project that turned into a three-year project. It has also screened at over 20 festivals, which is why their being nominated is said to be something worth celebrating for sure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The film won Best Short Film at the Tribeca Film Fest in 2014 and also at the Beset Documentary Short at the Animatou Animation Fest in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Recently, another Filipino director Ronnie del Carmen made waves in the animated film industry with the movie \u201dInside Out\u201d which was nominated at the 88<sup>th<\/sup> Academy Awards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">With \u201cLove in Time of March Madness\u201d making it to the prestigious awards ceremony\u2019s shortlist, many people will know of the talent that Filipino directors have when it comes to animated films.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3781\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/11\/border3.png\" alt=\"border3\" width=\"850\" height=\"5\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/11\/border3.png 850w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/11\/border3-300x2.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em><strong>S<\/strong><strong>ource:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/movies\/short-cuts-its-crazy-says-australian-animator-robertino-zambrano-about-contending-for-an-oscar-20151216-glod46.html\" target=\"_blank\">smh.com.au<\/a><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Filipino creates waves in the US Film industry as Fil-Aussie director Robertino Zambrano\u2019s \u201cLove in the Time of March Madness\u201d makes it to Oscar\u2019s Animated Short Film Category shortlist. The movie, which is also co-directed by Melissa Johnson, is about a 6\u20194\u2019\u2019 basketball star struggling to find true love. It\u2019s a story of Melissa, an 8th grader, who ensues in a hilarious and at the same time awkward misadventures. It\u2019s also about embracing differences that will tell people a lot about love and other life experiences. According to Zambrano, his film was intended to be a six-month project that turned into a three-year project. It has also screened at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/01\/loveintime-e1454060300732.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646","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=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4648,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions\/4648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}