{"id":2046,"date":"2016-08-10T10:05:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T10:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2016-08-15T09:02:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T09:02:24","slug":"banter-on-viva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/banter-on-viva\/","title":{"rendered":"Banter on Viva (145, Aug 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A story about love and family set against the vibrant and colourful world of the Havana drag scene,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.viva-movie.com\/\">Viva<\/a>\u00a0goes on release in Ireland on Friday August 19. It was directed by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/paddybreathnach\">Paddy Breathnach<\/a>\u00a0and written by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/markohalloran\">Mark O\u2019Halloran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/CocuVQtWgAQgW2k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2047\" src=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/CocuVQtWgAQgW2k.jpg\" alt=\"CocuVQtWgAQgW2k\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/CocuVQtWgAQgW2k.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/CocuVQtWgAQgW2k-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/CocuVQtWgAQgW2k-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/CocuVQtWgAQgW2k-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/CocuVQtWgAQgW2k-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The film stars H\u00e9ctor Medina as Jesus, a hairdresser for a troupe of drag performers in a club in the Cuban city, who dreams of being a performer. When he finally gets to perform onstage, a stranger emerges from the crowd and punches him in the face. The stranger is his father, Angel, a boxer, absent for many years and now in need of a place to live.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Official Trailer: Viva In Cinemas August 19th\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/174331185?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the release of the film, Banter will talk to O\u2019Halloran and legendary drag queens\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ladyveda\">Veda<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Pixie_Woo\">Pixie Woo<\/a>\u00a0at Wigwam (Middle Abbey St., Dublin) on Wednesday August 17. Doors open 6.30pm, Banter begins at 7pm and tickets can be booked\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ie\/e\/banter-on-viva-tickets-27022507046\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story about love and family set against the vibrant and colourful world of the Havana drag scene,\u00a0Viva\u00a0goes on release in Ireland on Friday August 19. It was directed by\u00a0Paddy Breathnach\u00a0and written by\u00a0Mark O\u2019Halloran. &nbsp; The film stars H\u00e9ctor Medina as Jesus, a hairdresser for a troupe of drag performers in a club in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/banter-on-viva\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Banter on Viva (145, Aug 2016)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2059,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}