{"id":88514,"date":"2020-06-03T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=88514"},"modified":"2020-06-03T18:56:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T23:56:11","slug":"oxford-virtual-film-festival-week-7-lgbtqia-feature-from-baghdad-to-the-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-virtual-film-festival-week-7-lgbtqia-feature-from-baghdad-to-the-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Virtual Film Festival Week 7 LGBTQIA Feature: &#8220;From Baghdad to the Bay&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cts.vresp.com\/c\/?WildworksProductions\/c7bd3a64c3\/27334b0621\/5eae26adaa\" target=\"_blank\">GET TICKETS HERE<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cts.vresp.com\/c\/?WildworksProductions\/c7bd3a64c3\/27334b0621\/3c87cba00a\" target=\"_blank\">Live Q&amp;A set for Saturday, June 6 at 1 pm CST<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Director:<\/strong> Erin Palmquist<br><strong>Countries:<\/strong> USA <br><strong>Running Time:<\/strong> 68 minutes<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zg8EBIBReZs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong><em>From Baghdad to the Bay <\/em><\/strong>is a raw and deeply personal look at one man\u2019s harrowing journey to be true to himself amidst extreme adversity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film follows the epic journey of <strong>Ghazwan Alsharif<\/strong>, an Iraqi refugee and former translator for the U.S. military. Wrongfully accused of being a double agent, tortured by the U.S. military and ostracized from family and country, Ghazwan struggles to rebuild his life in the United States while coming out as an openly gay activist.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GET TICKETS HERE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Live Q&amp;A set for Saturday, June 6 at 1 pm CST Director: Erin PalmquistCountries: USA Running<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":88545,"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":[13391],"tags":[16545,16547,16548,5665,137,16241],"class_list":["post-88514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oxford-film-festival","tag-from-baghdad-to-the-bay","tag-ghazwan-alsharif","tag-lgbtqia","tag-oxford-film-fest","tag-oxford-film-festival","tag-virtual-film-festival"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-06-03-OVFF-Baghdad-to-Bay.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88514","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}