{"id":5436,"date":"2015-05-13T13:50:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T12:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=5436"},"modified":"2015-05-13T13:54:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T12:54:46","slug":"my-movie-dry-wins-best-protagonist-award-at-the-bentonville-film-festival-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=5436","title":{"rendered":"My Movie &#8216;DRY&#8217; wins Best Protagonist Award at the Bentonville Film Festival, USA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi SL Fabz!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so excited to tell you that my new film \u201c<strong>DRY<\/strong>\u201d won an award at the <strong>Geena Davis<\/strong> and <strong>ARC Entertainment<\/strong>\u2019s inaugural <strong>Bentonville Film Festival<\/strong> (BFF) in Arkansas, U.S. for \u201c<strong>Best Protagonist<\/strong>\u201d. Yay!!!<\/p>\n<p>This came as a complete surprise. I am excited and honored that the Bentonville Film Festival picked my film for a screening, let alone an award. I am looking forward to this film touching the hearts of many more and helping people take action to save the child bride.<\/p>\n<p>I am also hopeful that\u00a0there will be more awards to come.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5438\" style=\"width: 1376px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Geena-Davis-Academy-Award-Winner-Co-founder-of-BFF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5438\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Geena-Davis-Academy-Award-Winner-Co-founder-of-BFF.jpg\" alt=\"The Bentonville Film Festival (BFF) founded by Academy Award Winner Geena Davis and Trevor Drinkwater, was a star-studded event. Here's Geena Davis at the event.\" width=\"1366\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Geena-Davis-Academy-Award-Winner-Co-founder-of-BFF.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Geena-Davis-Academy-Award-Winner-Co-founder-of-BFF-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Geena-Davis-Academy-Award-Winner-Co-founder-of-BFF-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bentonville Film Festival (BFF) is founded by Academy Award Winner Geena Davis and Trevor Drinkwater, was a star-studded event. Here&#8217;s Geena Davis at the event.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5439\" style=\"width: 1376px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Nick-Cannon-Host-BFF-Awards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5439\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Nick-Cannon-Host-BFF-Awards.jpg\" alt=\"It was hosted by Nick Cannon\" width=\"1366\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Nick-Cannon-Host-BFF-Awards.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Nick-Cannon-Host-BFF-Awards-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Nick-Cannon-Host-BFF-Awards-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It was hosted by Nick Cannon<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5440\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Jane-Lawalata-Co-producer-editor-Picked-up-the-Award-on-Behalf-of-Stephanie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Jane-Lawalata-Co-producer-editor-Picked-up-the-Award-on-Behalf-of-Stephanie.jpg\" alt=\"I couldn't get to attend, but glady, the film's co-producer\/editor Jane Lawalata picked up the award.\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Jane-Lawalata-Co-producer-editor-Picked-up-the-Award-on-Behalf-of-Stephanie.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Jane-Lawalata-Co-producer-editor-Picked-up-the-Award-on-Behalf-of-Stephanie-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I couldn&#8217;t get to attend, but glady, the film&#8217;s co-producer\/editor Jane Lawalata picked up the award.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I know you&#8217;re all itching to watch this movie, but don&#8217;t worry, it\u00a0is scheduled for a summer release here in Nigeria! Meanwhile, here is the trailer:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/soXkS9BnKu0\" width=\"620\" height=\"365\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi SL Fabz! I&#8217;m so excited to tell you that my new film \u201cDRY\u201d won an award at the Geena Davis and ARC Entertainment\u2019s inaugural Bentonville Film Festival (BFF) in Arkansas, U.S. for \u201cBest Protagonist\u201d. Yay!!! This came as a complete surprise. I am excited and honored that the Bentonville Film Festival picked my film for a screening, let alone an award. I am looking forward to this film touching the hearts of many more and helping people take action to save the child bride. I am also hopeful that\u00a0there will be more awards to come. I know you&#8217;re all itching to watch this movie, but don&#8217;t worry, it\u00a0is scheduled for a summer release here in Nigeria! Meanwhile, here is the trailer:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-5436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stephs-lounge","tag-dry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5443,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions\/5443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}