{"id":33855,"date":"2020-06-18T09:25:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T08:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=33855"},"modified":"2020-06-21T19:46:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T18:46:04","slug":"the-northern-echo-give-them-wings-at-venice-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-northern-echo-give-them-wings-at-venice-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Northern Echo: Give Them Wings at Venice Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenorthernecho.co.uk\/news\/18523840.story-disabled-darlington-fan-flies-venice-film-festival-oscar-path\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.thenorthernecho.co.uk\/news\/18523840.story-disabled-darlington-fan-flies-venice-film-festival-oscar-path\/ noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-33856 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/givethemwings20a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"323\" \/><\/a><strong>Story of disabled Darlington fan flies to Venice Film Festival, down Oscar path<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Give Them Wings, an upcoming film about the struggle of Quakers fan whose battle with meningitis as a child left him disabled, has finished production and began down the Oscar path.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The movie, which is undergoing final edits, follows the story of wheelchair-user Paul Hodgson who &#8220;was told he would only live to five but is now 55&#8221; and has been sent to Venice Film Festival \u2013 an Oscar qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>Give Them Wings has been accepted but not yet selected, though the team will know in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 The story of his childhood struggles with the disease, which looks at life as a disabled person, filmmaker and Darlington football fan, has attracted a cast including Toyah Willcox and film newcomer but previous Byker Grove actor Daniel Watson, who plays Mr Hodgson.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the low-budget film which was seven-years in the making and relied on a crowdfunding campaign, is on the Oscar trial, hoping to be shown major film festivals and &#8220;navigate the narrow corridor&#8221; to the Oscars.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenorthernecho.co.uk\/news\/18523840.story-disabled-darlington-fan-flies-venice-film-festival-oscar-path\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Northern Echo<\/strong><\/a>. Browse further info on <em>Give Them Wings<\/em> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longdogproductions.co.uk\/productions\/give-them-wings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>longdogproductions.co.uk<\/strong><\/a>. See some photos from the film at <a href=\"https:\/\/darlingtonfc.co.uk\/news\/give-them-wings-flying-to-the-venice-film-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>darlingtonfc.co.uk<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story of disabled Darlington fan flies to Venice Film Festival, down Oscar path Give Them Wings, an upcoming film about the struggle of Quakers fan whose battle with meningitis as a child left him disabled, has finished production and began down the Oscar path. The movie, which is undergoing final edits, follows the story of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,27],"tags":[1824,717],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33878,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33855\/revisions\/33878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}