{"id":7339,"date":"2026-08-20T16:21:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/?p=7339"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:45:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:45:05","slug":"taking-the-plunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/en\/taking-the-plunge\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Plunge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 SHORT FILM &#8211; IN PRODUCTION \u2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Melocoton_LePlongeon_COMTVGE_heavy-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Melocoton_LePlongeon_COMTVGE_heavy-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Melocoton_LePlongeon_COMTVGE_heavy-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Melocoton_LePlongeon_COMTVGE_heavy-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Melocoton_LePlongeon_COMTVGE_heavy-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Melocoton_LePlongeon_COMTVGE_heavy-1-373x210.jpg 373w, https:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Melocoton_LePlongeon_COMTVGE_heavy-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Melocoton_LePlongeon_COMTVGE_heavy-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 1950s, in the midst of a polio epidemic.<br>John, a young athlete, is condemned by the negligence of his school principal, who assures him that his beloved Olympic-sized pool is perfectly safe. With no recourse, John shows great resilience and builds a new life for himself.<br>Today, his son Jonathan questions him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Director l Jonathan Hodgson<br>Script l Jonathan Hodgson &amp; Claudia Bottino<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Genre l Animation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Co-production l Bridge Way Films (Chris Hees)<br>With support from the BFI, the Eurom\u00e9tropole de Strasbourg, and the CNC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 SHORT FILM &#8211; IN PRODUCTION \u2022 The 1950s, in the midst of a polio epidemic.John, a young athlete, is condemned by the negligence of his school principal, who assures him that his beloved Olympic-sized pool is perfectly safe. With no recourse, John shows great resilience and builds a new life for himself.Today, his son [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7339"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7376,"href":"https:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions\/7376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melocotonfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}