{"id":1932,"date":"2015-04-21T20:47:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T20:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2015-04-21T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T20:48:00","slug":"1932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/2015\/04\/21\/1932\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Be Brave&#8221; by Aja Monet get Best Music Video Award at RIFF 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rinconfilm.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rincon International Film Festival<\/a> for honoring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajamonet.com\" target=\"_blank\">Aja Monet<\/a>&#8216;s song &#8220;Be Brave&#8221; with the Best Music Video Award at this year&#8217;s festival. Aja Monet is a gifted poet, musician, activist, and one of the nicest people I&#8217;ve ever worked with, and I&#8217;m grateful she chose me to direct and animate her music video. We met so many friendly and talented filmmakers at the festival, and saw lots of great films.<\/p>\n<p>You can download Aja&#8217;s &#8220;Courage&#8221; EP here (and give what you can to help support her musical endeavors): <a href=\"http:\/\/ajamonet.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ajamonet.bandcamp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bhN8vxeL4dU?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to the Rincon International Film Festival for honoring Aja Monet&#8216;s song &#8220;Be Brave&#8221; with the Best Music Video Award at this year&#8217;s festival. Aja Monet is a gifted poet, musician, activist, and one of the nicest people I&#8217;ve ever worked with, and I&#8217;m grateful she chose me to[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104,100,3],"tags":[258,254,143,205,190,128,244,274,212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonray.net\/clean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}