{"id":1188,"date":"2016-06-30T19:12:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T19:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2016-06-30T19:12:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T19:12:50","slug":"bite-sized-blog-post-maya-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/30\/bite-sized-blog-post-maya-forbes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bite-sized blog post: Maya Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Maya-Forbes.jpg\" data-src=\"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Maya-Forbes.jpg\" data-thumb=\"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Maya-Forbes-203x300.jpg\" class=\"ml-lightbox-enabled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1189 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Maya-Forbes-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Maya Forbes\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Maya-Forbes-203x300.jpg 203w, http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Maya-Forbes.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MAYA FORBES is primarily known for her work as a producer and writer for television shows such as\u00a0<em>The Larry Sanders Show <\/em>and\u00a0<em> The People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Her directorial debut\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fvjS7rN8HT0\" target=\"_blank\">Infinitely Polar Bear<\/a><\/em> (2014) was based on her experiences growing up with her father who suffered from bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<div class=\"filmo-row odd\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0More to add to this &#8220;bite-sized blog&#8221; &#8211; please send us a comment!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Where to watch her films:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=sr_nr_n_0?fst=as%3Aoff&amp;rh=n%3A2625373011%2Ck%3AMaya+Forbes&amp;keywords=Maya+Forbes&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1466707452&amp;rnid=2941120011\" target=\"_blank\">AMAZON<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Read more about her:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>ONLINE<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/06\/22\/416538082\/infinitely-polar-bear-director-relives-childhood-with-mentally-ill-parent\" target=\"_blank\">NPR<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/06\/29\/life-with-father-maya-forbes-infinitely-polar-bear\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New Yorker<br \/>\n<\/em><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2015\/06\/maya-forbes-stands-by-her-dad-in-directorial-debut-infinitely-polar-bear-187042\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maya Forbes Stands by Her Dad in Directorial Debut \u2018Infinitely Polar Bear\u2019<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/arts\/movies\/2015\/06\/27\/her-bipolar-inspiration-was-messy-not-quirky\/61xuCyjzXClu93OzEmefjP\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Her bipolar inspiration was messy, not quirky<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/jun\/28\/maya-forbes-director-of-infinitely-polar-bear-movi\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Infinitely Polar Bear\u2019 director Maya Forbes bases mental illness story on own family struggle<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maya_Forbes\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"filmo-row odd\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><strong><strong>FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<div id=\"director-tt5539052\" class=\"filmo-row odd\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5539052\/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1\">The Polka King<\/a> (<a class=\"in_production\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/r\/legacy-inprod-name\/title\/tt5539052\">pre-production<\/a>)<\/div>\n<div id=\"director-tt1969062\" class=\"filmo-row even\"><span class=\"year_column\">\u00a02014<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1969062\/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_2\">Infinitely Polar Bear<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAYA FORBES is primarily known for her work as a producer and writer for television shows such as\u00a0The Larry Sanders Show and\u00a0 The People v. 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Her directorial debut\u00a0Infinitely Polar Bear (2014) was based on her experiences growing up with her father who suffered from bipolar disorder. \u00a0More to add to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[37,7,27,41,11,39,38,21,9,22,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}