{"id":453731,"date":"2026-05-31T06:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T06:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/453731\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T06:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T06:40:08","slug":"documentary-premiere-sheds-light-on-augusta-homelessness-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/453731\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary premiere sheds light on Augusta homelessness, poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW\/WAGT) &#8211; A red carpet premiere was held for a documentary examining homelessness, poverty and economic hardship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The premiere for the documentary \u201cSeason of Drought\u201d took place at the First Presbyterian Church on Telfair Street on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The film includes experiences from people facing economic hardship in America, including in Augusta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Attendees included Nomi Stanton from GAP Ministries and Jackson Drumgoole of Bridge Builder Communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lia Barnes, a boom operator on the production, said working on the film was a great experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cMy major at Augusta University is digital and visual storytelling so this is perfect for my field of work,\u201d Barnes said. \u201cI was more of an assistant boom operator. I helped but everyone on the set taught me a lot about what it means to be on a set, not just what it means to be a sound operator on set but everything else that has to do with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event also included an awards presentation and networking reception.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WRDW\/WAGT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW\/WAGT) &#8211; A red carpet premiere was held for a documentary examining homelessness, poverty and economic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-453731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}