{"id":935,"date":"2009-12-03T15:51:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T20:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=935"},"modified":"2015-02-27T15:57:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T20:57:49","slug":"the-economics-of-journalism-dr-robert-j-picard","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/the-economics-of-journalism-dr-robert-j-picard\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum wins for screenplay at Slamdance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Christopher Hlas (COM\u00a0&#8217;04)<\/strong> won the 2009 Slamdance Short Screenplay Contest for his script <em>Hey Vendor!<\/em> The film was produced by Slamdance President Peter Baxter and directed by Sundance Film Festival jury award-winner Matt Harrison. The film stars Troy Garity (Jane Fonda&#8217;s son, who played Harvey in Danny Boyle&#8217;s <em>Sunshine<\/em>) and Anthony Rey Parker (Dozer from <em>The Matrix<\/em>). Hlas makes a cameo, too &#8212; as &#8220;Unconcious Guy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The film will premiere January 23rd at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Hlas will be attending the premiere.<\/p>\n<p>The Slamdance Festival, which aims to display the work of young independent filmmakers, will be held January 21 &#8211; 28, 2010. Other movies to come out of Slamdance include <em>Paranormal Activity<\/em>, <em>King of Kong<\/em>, <em>Mad Hot Ballroom<\/em>, and Christopher Nolan&#8217;s <em>The Following<\/em>. For more information on the Slamdance Film Festival, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slamdance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.slamdance.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Hlas (COM\u00a0&#8217;04) won the 2009 Slamdance Short Screenplay Contest for his script Hey Vendor! The film was produced by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9874,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[476],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9874"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/935\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}