{"id":112,"date":"2011-05-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqed2.wsmtechs.net\/imagemakers\/my-first-crush\/"},"modified":"2015-08-05T16:37:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T23:37:08","slug":"my-first-crush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/imagemakers\/my-first-crush\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Crush"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>This episode includes:<\/h3>\n<p><b>The Crush<\/b> by Michael Creagh<br \/><b>Big Girl<\/b> by Renuka Jeyapalan<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Crush<\/strong><br \/>Ireland<br \/>Ardal Travis is in love. There&#8217;s just one small problem &#8230; him. He&#8217;s only eight years old and the object of his affection is his beautiful teacher Miss Purdy. He also has a bigger problem &#8230; Pierce. He is Miss Purdy&#8217;s fianc\u00e9e. As the saying goes, all is fair in love and war. There&#8217;s only one thing Ardal can do &#8230; challenge the interloper to a duel! Written and directed by Michael Creagh. The film was nominated for a 2011 Academy Award. Principal cast: Oran Creagh (the filmmaker&#8217;s son), Olga Wehrly and Rory Keenan.<br \/>&#8211; To read an interview with the filmmaker, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent-magazine.org\/magazine\/2010\/04\/creagh\">independent-magazine.org<\/a>.<br \/>&#8211; To purchase this film, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/movie\/the-crush\/id420880353\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Big Girl<\/strong><br \/>Canada<br \/>A battle of wills develops between nine year old Josephine and her mother&#8217;s new boyfriend &#8212; a &#8220;lowly&#8221; bartender. No longer the sole object of her affection, she challenges this new interloper to a winner take all competition. He may be man enough for her mother, but is he man enough to take care of them both? A bittersweet tale of modern family politics written and directed by Renuka Jeyapalan. Principal cast: Samantha Weinstein, Kris Holden-Ried and Patricia Fagan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Includes the films: The Crush by Michael Creagh and Big Girl by Renuka Jeyapalan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8663,"featured_media":339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"coauthors":[17],"series":[10],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drama","post_format-post-format-quote","series-season-9"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>My First Crush - ImageMakers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/imagemakers\/my-first-crush\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My First Crush - 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