{"id":14120,"date":"2014-11-12T17:59:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T06:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=14120"},"modified":"2014-11-12T18:00:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T07:00:40","slug":"it-grows-on-steroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/11\/12\/it-grows-on-steroids\/","title":{"rendered":"It Grows! &#8230; on Steroids!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Nick Stathopoulos and Ryan Cauchi&#8217;s fantastic short nasty-plant-from-outer-space film, <strong>It Grows!<\/strong> (see these <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?s=It+Grows!\" target=\"_blank\">Undead Backbrain articles<\/a>) has shambled off with a slew of awards at Zed Fest.<\/p>\n<p>Director Ryan Cauchi reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m speechless right now. <em>It Grows!<\/em> has just won 5 awards at <a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zedfest\" target=\"_blank\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=100000999940587\">Zed Fest<\/a>! &#8220;Outstanding Foreign Short Direction&#8221; for <a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nick.stathopoulos.98\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=604865204\">Nick Stathopoulos<\/a> and myself; &#8220;Outstanding Horror B Comedy Short&#8221;; &#8220;Outstanding Original Score&#8221; for Andrew Thomas Wilson; a special nod to Nick for &#8220;Creature Effects, Miniatures and Matte Paintings&#8221;; and last but not least, &#8220;Best Poster&#8221;&#8230; and apparently there are more awards to come!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great work, guys!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Award-winning Best Poster:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/It-Grows-TEXTURED-POSTER-D-A3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13851\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/It-Grows-TEXTURED-POSTER-D-A3.jpg\" alt=\"It Grows! TEXTURED POSTER D A3\" width=\"842\" height=\"1191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/It-Grows-TEXTURED-POSTER-D-A3.jpg 842w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/It-Grows-TEXTURED-POSTER-D-A3-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/It-Grows-TEXTURED-POSTER-D-A3-723x1024.jpg 723w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 842px) 100vw, 842px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>An Example of Nick Stathopoulos&#8217; Incredible Matte Painting<\/strong> (click on it to see it in all its glory):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/it-grows03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14008\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/it-grows03.jpg\" alt=\"it-grows03\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/it-grows03.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/it-grows03-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/it-grows03-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Nick Stathopoulos and Ryan Cauchi&#8217;s fantastic short nasty-plant-from-outer-space film, It Grows! (see these Undead Backbrain articles) has shambled off with a slew of awards at Zed Fest. Director Ryan Cauchi reports: I&#8217;m speechless right now. It Grows! has just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/11\/12\/it-grows-on-steroids\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,91,952,3,70,62],"tags":[383,957,953,1014,543,1395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14122,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14120\/revisions\/14122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}