{"id":165693,"date":"2026-02-23T15:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165693\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:17:07","slug":"opening-night-40th-annual-fort-lauderdale-international-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165693\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening night: 40th annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF) kicked off its 40th anniversary season Saturday with the world premiere of the thriller \u201cMiami Nights.\u201d Stars Jeremy Sumpter, Danay Garcia, and Sydelle Noel walked the red carpet at Savor Cinema before joining director Justin Steele for an on-stage Q&amp;A. The photo gallery captures the opening night festivities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF) kicked off its 40th anniversary season Saturday with the world premiere&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2813,506,28,249,251,250,5077,947,106],"class_list":{"0":"post-165693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-broward-county","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-fort-lauderdale","12":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","13":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-photos-and-videos","16":"tag-things-to-do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}