{"id":408200,"date":"2022-12-03T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=408200"},"modified":"2022-12-03T22:32:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T22:32:10","slug":"ajoomma-director-he-shuming-wanted-to-make-a-feature-my-mom-would-like-contenders-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ajoomma-director-he-shuming-wanted-to-make-a-feature-my-mom-would-like-contenders-international","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ajoomma&#8217; Director He Shuming &#8220;Wanted To Make A Feature My Mom Would Like&#8221; &#8211; Contenders International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of submissions for this year&#8217;s International Feature Oscar category deal with serious issues, from major to minor, and while He Shuming &#8217;s feature debut Ajoomma (the title translates as Auntie ) isn&#8217;t exactly the heaviest of them all, it does make a point of focusing on a character type that is vastly underrepresented in cinema across the globe: the older female. Speaking at Deadline&#8217;s Contenders Film: International award-season event, the director explained, &#8220;It&#8217;s a film about a middle-aged Singaporean woman who is completely obsessed with Korean drama, and so she travels to Seoul for the first time&#8212;and gets left behind by the tour guide. She then has to find her way back, and in this whole journey she rediscovers herself and finds a new lease of life.&#8221; RELATED: The Contenders International &#8211; Deadline&#8217;s Full Coverage Although not autobiographical, Giraffe Pictures &#8217; Ajoomma , from Singapore, is certainly a personal project for He. &#8220;I think a lot of it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of submissions for this year&#8217;s International Feature Oscar category deal with serious issues, from major to minor, and while He Shuming&#8217;s feature debut Ajoomma (the title translates as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}