{"id":146278,"date":"2020-05-31T03:13:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T01:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/31\/cook-off-the-no-budget-romcom-that-became-the-first-zimbabwean-film-on-netflix\/"},"modified":"2020-05-31T03:13:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T01:13:41","slug":"cook-off-the-no-budget-romcom-that-became-the-first-zimbabwean-film-on-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=146278","title":{"rendered":"Cook Off, the no-budget romcom that became the first Zimbabwean film on Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shot in the chaotic last days of Robert Mugabe\u2019s regime, Cook Off is a feel-good tale of resilience and hopeA Zimbabwean film about a woman who enters a TV cooking show and which cost only $8,000 to make has become the first feature from the country to make it onto Netflix.\u201cSeeing myself on Netflix, I have to punch myself every day. Like, is that really me?\u201d asked actress Tendaiishe Chitima, star of Cook Off, which has now been acquired by the streaming giant. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/31\/cook-off-the-no-budget-romcom-that-became-the-first-zimbabwean-film-on-netflix\" target=\"_blank\">Cook Off, the no-budget romcom that became the first Zimbabwean film on Netflix<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shot in the chaotic last days of Robert Mugabe\u2019s regime, Cook Off is a feel-good tale of resilience and hopeA Zimbabwean film about a woman who enters a TV cooking show and which cost only $8,000 to make has become the first feature from the country to make it onto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}