{"id":10321,"date":"2018-06-30T11:44:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T15:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=10321"},"modified":"2019-06-08T18:30:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T22:30:26","slug":"nyaaff-2018-opening-night-gregg-w-morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/nyaaff-2018-opening-night-gregg-w-morris\/","title":{"rendered":"NYAFF Opening Night Party &#8211; <i><b>the WORD<\/b><\/i> Was  There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NYAFF Opening Night Party\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/12B6IuZPRUw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Food and Drink Sponsors: Tim Ho Wan (Michelin Star Dim Sum Restaurant), Eggloo (Waffle Ice Cream), Yasu Tangbao (Dumplings), Olive Chicken (Korean Fried Chicken), Kungfu Tea (Bubble Tea), Karl&#8217;s Balls (Takoyaki) and Tiger Beer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>NYAAFF<\/strong> &#8211; From vicious, life-destroying phone scams to balletic battles between equally corruptcops and yakuza, NYAFF offers films that reflect on contemporary\u00a0society while offering extreme genre pleasures. There are self-referential takes on cinematic zombies, existential date nights, and teens finding their own corners of the world despite familial and societal expectations. After\u00a0last year\u2019s Sweet Sixteen, this year\u2019s program is dubbed the Savage Seventeenth edition with four world premieres, three international premieres, 21 North American premieres, three U.S. premieres, and twelve New York premieres, showcasing the most exciting comedies, dramas, thrillers, romances, horrors and arthouse films from East Asia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The last few minutes are the best.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Gregg W. Morris can be reached at gmorris@hunter.cuny.edu<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A glimpse of the two-hour opening night party. <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/nyaaff-2018-opening-night-gregg-w-morris\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[841],"class_list":["post-10321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","tag-nyaaf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10321"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10338,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10321\/revisions\/10338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}