{"id":43448,"date":"2017-12-13T12:40:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=43448"},"modified":"2017-12-13T12:40:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:40:18","slug":"oxford-film-fest-hosts-screening-of-attack-of-the-southern-fried-zombies-and-beer-tasting-at-the-growler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-film-fest-hosts-screening-of-attack-of-the-southern-fried-zombies-and-beer-tasting-at-the-growler\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Film Fest Hosts Screening of Attack of the Southern Fried Zombies and Beer Tasting at The Growler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">The <strong>Oxford Film Festival<\/strong> will host a screening of the <em>Attack of the Southern Fried Zombies<\/em>, formerly titled <em>Kudzu Zombies<\/em>, in advance of its March release at <strong>The Growler<\/strong> on Sunday, December 17. <strong>Southern Prohibition<\/strong> beer will also be sold as a fundraiser for the festival. Attendees will also get a preview of the upcoming February festival. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Lonnie<\/strong>, a crop duster pilot, must lead a mismatched group of survivors to escape the deadly zombie horde after an experimental chemical, intended to control the invasive kudzu vine, transforms the citizens of <strong>Charleston<\/strong>, Mississippi into zombies. Directed by <strong>Mark Newton<\/strong>, the film was shot in 2016 in Mississippi and held its world premiere at the Oxford Film Festival in February. The film was bought by <strong>Gravitas Venturas<\/strong> and will have worldwide release in March. Locals will get a chance to see the final film before the release. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Enjoy beer from 4-6 pm and proceeds will go towards the festival. Then the screening will be held from 6-8 pm. The fundraiser serves as part of the month-long <strong>Seed&amp;Spark<\/strong> campaign to raise the last $8,000 in funds for the 2018 festival.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford Film Festival will host a screening of the Attack of the Southern Fried Zombies, formerly titled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":43449,"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":""},"categories":[5017],"tags":[11334,11335,5,642,4,5665,8064,4376,3,753],"class_list":["post-43448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-cinema","tag-attack-of-the-southern-fried-zombies","tag-kudzu-zombies","tag-mississippi","tag-ms","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-film-fest","tag-southern-prohibition","tag-the-growler","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2017-12-13-southern-fried-zombies.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}