{"id":2306,"date":"2012-02-09T11:12:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T19:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2012-02-15T18:52:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T02:52:56","slug":"sunflower-hour-a-rousing-documentary-about-puppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/02\/09\/sunflower-hour-a-rousing-documentary-about-puppets\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunflower Hour a rousing documentary about puppets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sunflower Hour<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2307\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CN_SunflowerHour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2307\" title=\"CN_SunflowerHour\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CN_SunflowerHour-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CN_SunflowerHour-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CN_SunflowerHour-180x101.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CN_SunflowerHour.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from Sunflower Hour (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This brilliant mockumentary puts overlooked children\u2019s entertainers in a whole new light. I wish this was a TV series so I could continue to watch these characters on a weekly basis: it\u2019s that funny.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Houston wrote and directed this comedy, starring four unlikely puppeteers who audition for the children\u2019s show <em>Sunflower Hour<\/em>, which just happens to be run by porn moguls.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie (Patrick Gilmore) is a closeted, clueless Christian whose evangelist puppet preaches against homosexuality; Shamus (Ben Cotton), the stereotyped Irishman with an overly social leprechaun puppet. Spawn of Satan (Kacey Rohl) is the outcast teenage goth who wants to prove a point; David (Amitai Marmorstein), a bullied optimist who knows all the songs to <em>Sunflower Hour<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The puppet Bootsy was inspired by Elmo; the rest of the puppets are extensions of the characters, which leads to hilarious and awkward situations.<\/p>\n<p>Houston\u2019s inspiration came for this project while watching a children\u2019s show with his daughter. The concept of ego came to mind when the puppeteer\u2019s names in the credits were bigger than any other names. That\u2019s how <em>Sunflower Hour<\/em> was born.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the whole film was shot in Vancouver on a $29,000 budget. Not bad for such a great movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunflower Hour This brilliant mockumentary puts overlooked children\u2019s entertainers in a whole new light. I wish this was a TV series so I could continue to watch these characters on a weekly basis: it\u2019s that funny. Aaron Houston wrote and directed this comedy, starring four unlikely puppeteers who audition for the children\u2019s show Sunflower Hour, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions\/2310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}