{"id":100,"date":"2008-12-21T11:45:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T18:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/2008\/12\/21\/santa-and-sons-daughter\/"},"modified":"2008-12-21T11:45:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T18:45:55","slug":"santa-and-sons-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/2008\/santa-and-sons-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"SANTA AND SONS & Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

“America’s ready for a black Santa!” says Snavely Claws, villain in “SANTA AND SONS & daughter<\/a>!” movie marking 4th Anniversary Public Access TV Event showing.”That’s a funny, new wrinkle,” says Director, Robert Battaile. “We’ve had a black Santa wanna-be for years. His name is Snavely and he even wears a black, Santa suit!” He sings a mean, talking blues song “Snavely Claws” in our comedy movie “but I thought he’d been cured of his demented ambitions.”Now in its fourth anniversary year, “SANTA AND SONS & daughter!” (www.santaandsons.com<\/a>) the family musical movie is showing on Public Access TV throughout December in 31 states \u2013 over 200 cities in the U.S. and internationally in Austria and United Kingdom; plus countrywide in New Zealand and Ireland. “We’re showing in Vienna, Virginia and Vienna, Austria.” adds Producer\/Director, Robert Battaile.”If you’re not near an access channel, we’re available nationally on DISH Satellite at Starfish TV Network.”Watch a :60 trailer at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GBDEuextKFU<\/a> and click on “high quality” for best viewing. Patience please. Or, go straight to Santa’s homepage at www.santaandsons.com<\/a> and watch movie clips, photo galleries and more.”SANTA AND SONS & daughter!” is an indie musical movie that was produced by Battaile’s video company CALEXAS (www.calexas.com<\/a>) in northern California in 2004, and appeared in three festivals, Gloria Film Festival, KidsFirst! Film and Video Festival (where it was also nominated for “Best Movie for 8-12 Years Olds”) and STARZ! Festival. Creative Child Magazine gave the film an Award.”SANTA AND SONS & daughter!” introduces Santa’s wife Sara, two sons Nicholas and Klaus, and daughter, Sandy Claus. Sandy flies a talking, anti-gravity sleigh named Blaise and falls in love with Zwerkin, the inventor of a teleportation device that helps Santa get into houses without chimneys. The villain, Snavely puts on his black Santa-suit and sings about “deer kabobs and antler soup.” The comedy musical features seven songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“America’s ready for a black Santa!” says Snavely Claws, villain in “SANTA AND SONS & daughter!” movie marking 4th Anniversary Public Access TV Event showing.”That’s a funny, new wrinkle,” says Director, Robert Battaile. “We’ve had a black Santa wanna-be for years. His name is Snavely and he even wears a black, Santa suit!” He sings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news","category-member-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paS5I2-1C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}