{"id":39889,"date":"2012-05-03T04:04:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T04:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=39889"},"modified":"2012-05-03T04:04:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T04:04:59","slug":"routes-to-my-rootz-nomination-for-iphone-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=39889","title":{"rendered":"Routes to My Rootz nomination for iPhone Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After over a decade of being away from Sierra Leone, Nick Asgill decided to put his money where his heart is.\u00a0 He traveled back to Sierra Leone, unaccompanied, and unannounced. \u00a0Determined to stand out from the rest, he\u00a0packed\u00a0his bags and armed\u00a0himself with his\u00a0\u00a0i-Phone to document the 6,000 miles+ trip to Freetown West Africa for the first time in over 10 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nick&#8217;s extract of a short film he shot on his i-phone has been put up for nomination at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iphoneff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone Film Festival<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/strong>The film, titled &#8220;Routes to My Rootz,&#8221; is the first Sierra Leonean and African film to be put up by the prestigious niche festival.\u00a0 Preview the film below, and don&#8217;t forget to take a minute to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iphoneff.com\/archives\/5429\">http:\/\/www.iphoneff.com\/archives\/5429<\/a>\u00a0to rate it, comment, and share (no registration required).<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Aat1Ye3ClY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"540\" height=\"348\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<address><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\"><em>Software and hardware used<\/em>: Shot with iphone 4 app called Almost DSLR &amp; Edited with Final Cut Pro 6.0.2<\/span>\u00a0<\/address>\n<p>You can also see more info on\u00a0his work below:\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><strong>Youtube:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/NickAsgilldottcom\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> <\/strong>http:\/\/www.youtube.<wbr>com\/user\/NickAsgilldottcom<\/wbr><\/a><\/div>\n<div><strong>Vimeo: <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/asgillius\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/<wbr>asgillius\/videos<\/wbr><\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Linked In:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.linkedin.com\/in\/asgillius\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit; color: #006699;\">http:\/\/uk.linkedin.com\/in\/<wbr>asgillius<\/wbr><\/span> <\/a><\/div>\n<div><strong>Facebook:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Nick-Asgill\/38775520876\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.facebook.<wbr>com\/pages\/Nick-Asgill\/<\/wbr><wbr>38775520876<\/wbr><\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After over a decade of being away from Sierra Leone, Nick Asgill decided to put his money where his heart is.\u00a0 He traveled back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[745,1],"tags":[12064,12065,12066],"class_list":["post-39889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-and-entertainment","category-uncategorized","tag-i-phone-film-festival","tag-nnck-asgill","tag-routes-to-my-roots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}