{"id":78,"date":"2022-03-01T12:56:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T12:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terracottacreatives.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2024-01-09T21:53:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T21:53:51","slug":"experimental-film-fiction-the-optimist-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terracottacreatives.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/01\/experimental-film-fiction-the-optimist-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimental film \/ Fiction: The Optimist (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Directed by Mrittika Kamal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Produced by Mrittika Kamal and Shohayel Rahman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Synopsis: In the patriarchal society of Bangladesh, a girl is raised like a goat to be slaughtered &#8211; she is fed, taught to read, made to learn household work and then married off to a suitable groom her family chooses for her. This symbolic film portrays the journey of women who do not fall under this criteria &#8211; women who want to be more than a piece of meat, who are considered scandals in our society, and yet how they constantly fight for women&#8217;s rights with an irrepressible optimism that society will adapt and grant them equal rights one day.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Awards:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Honourable Mention, Student World Impact Film Festival, USA, 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Semi-finalist, Los Angeles Cinefest, USA, 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Official Selection, 10th IIUSFF, Bangladesh, 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Screenings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Alliance Francaise de Dacca, 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>University of Dhaka, 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Star Cineplex, 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bangladesh Shipkala Academy, 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directed by Mrittika Kamal Produced by Mrittika Kamal and Shohayel Rahman Synopsis: In the patriarchal society of Bangladesh, a girl is raised like a goat to be slaughtered &#8211; she is fed, taught to read, made to learn household work and then married off to a suitable groom her family chooses for her. This symbolic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,6],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-experimental-film","tag-womens-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracottacreatives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracottacreatives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracottacreatives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terracottacreatives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terracottacreatives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/terracottacreatives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/terracottacreatives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terracottacreatives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracottacreatives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terracottacreatives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terracottacreatives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}