{"id":14541,"date":"2013-11-22T02:38:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T02:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14541"},"modified":"2013-11-22T02:38:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T02:38:23","slug":"jackpot-by-adam-baran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/11\/22\/jackpot-by-adam-baran\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackpot by Adam Baran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/79245537\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"jackpot.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/jackpot.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Jackpot<\/em> is a 10-minute film by Adam Baran about a gay teen in 1994 who goes looking for a stash of abandoned gay porn mags. Baran says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I really made the film because I loved teen movies and never really saw one for gay kids that both addressed their sexuality in the way that straight movies like <em>Weird Science<\/em> or <em>American Pie<\/em> or <em>Superbad<\/em> did, and let them get what they want. Jack in my film learns that he has to fight back for what he wants, even if it means he has to take a couple of licks. I think that&#8217;s a resonant message for gay kids everywhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I mentioned the Kickstarter completion bid for this a couple of years ago then promptly forgot about it so it&#8217;s good to find that the film got made, and won Best Short at the 2013 Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. The whole thing can now be watched on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/79245537\" target=\"_blank\">Vimeo<\/a> where Baran is trying to raise money to expand <em>Jackpot<\/em> into a feature. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2013\/11\/jackpot.html\" target=\"_blank\">Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackpot is a 10-minute film by Adam Baran about a gay teen in 1994 who goes looking for a stash of abandoned gay porn mags. Baran says: I really made the film because I loved teen movies and never really saw one for gay kids that both addressed their sexuality in the way that straight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/11\/22\/jackpot-by-adam-baran\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jackpot by Adam Baran&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,5,43],"tags":[2948],"class_list":["post-14541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-gay","category-magazines","tag-adam-baran"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3Mx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}