{"id":9830,"date":"2025-09-14T08:31:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=9830"},"modified":"2025-09-13T21:31:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:31:46","slug":"the-chickens-win-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2025\/09\/14\/the-chickens-win-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chickens Win Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our adaptation of Howard Waldrop&#8217;s short story THE UGLY CHICKENS continues to kick ass and take names out on the film festival circuit.\u00a0 Our latest win came back in March, at the Cinequest festival in San Jose.<\/p>\n<p>We were not able to attend that one is person, but Cinequest was good enough to send us the award.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9832\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_9314-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_9314-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_9314-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_9314-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_9314-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_9314-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Howard wrote a helluva lot of great stories in his day &#8212; there was no one like him, and never will be &#8212; but &#8220;The Ugly Chickens&#8221; was probably the best known.\u00a0 \u00a0It won both the Nebula and the World Fantasy Award (a Hugo finalist as well, but that one escaped the chickens).\u00a0 \u00a0Our film adaptation was scripted by Michael Cassutt, directed by Mark Raso, and starred the amazing Felicia Day.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still out on the circuit, so do check any upcoming film festival near you.\u00a0 \u00a0You may be lucky enough to catch s screening.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9835\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ugly-chickens-1_1280x720-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ugly-chickens-1_1280x720-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ugly-chickens-1_1280x720-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ugly-chickens-1_1280x720-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ugly-chickens-1_1280x720.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our adaptation of Howard Waldrop&#8217;s short story THE UGLY CHICKENS continues to kick ass and take names out on the film festival circuit.\u00a0 Our latest win came back in March, at the Cinequest festival in San Jose. We were not able to attend that one is person, but Cinequest was good enough to send us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[29,318,59,342,56],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9830"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9837,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions\/9837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}