In a conversation as uplifting as his music, Randy Edelman graced the microphone of the Good News Podcast hosted by the brilliant Paul  Sladkus — delivering an episode that feels like a breath of fresh inspiration.

Recorded with warmth, wit, and heartfelt insight, Randy shared stories from his remarkable career as a composer — from writing unforgettable themes for beloved films to the deeper personal reflections that shape his art. With each answer, he radiated the same generosity and joy that have made his music resonate across generations.

Paul guided the dialogue with thoughtful curiosity, creating space for Randy to open up about the power of creativity, the bridges between emotion and melody, and the moments that define a life in music. The conversation was candid yet poetic, inviting listeners into a rare glimpse of the man behind the scores.

Listeners will find themselves smiling, nodding, and ultimately walking away with something rare: true Good News — a reminder of how beauty, perseverance, and heartfelt expression can uplift the world.

Whether you’re a longtime fan or discovering Randy’s genius for the first time, this episode is an inspiring journey — one that echoes long after the final note.

Tune in, turn up the volume, and let the good news play on.

Watch Randy Edelman on the Good News Podcast with Paul Sladkus here:

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Haven’t seen it? “The Meg” was released simultaneously in the summer of 2018 in mainland China and the United States, and in just three days of release, the box office in mainland China exceeded 300 million yuan; in the United States for three days, it also raked in nearly 200 million dollars! Still haven’t heard of it? When is the last time you’ve been to the movies?

Excellent Sino-American co-production films

Have you heard of “Kung Fu Panda”? The story of a lazy panda who dreams of becoming a kung fu legend. Kung Fu Panda was a global phenomenon: Kung Fu panda was everywhere!

“Kung Fu Panda” ($631 million at the global box office) and “Kung Fu Panda 2” ($665 million at the global box office) have made DreamWorks so much money that the whole world sought for “Kung Fu Panda 3” by a Sino-American co-production! After four years of hard work, “Kung Fu Panda 3” was brought into existence in 2016, earning $400 million at the box office in four days of release and $960 million in its final 30 days, making it the best-selling anime movie in Chinese history ($521 million worldwide).

“Kung Fu Panda” series movie

“Kung Fu Panda 3” set another record as the first ever Sino-American co-produced animated film. The Kung Fu Panda series is the brainchild of DreamWorks CEO Katzenberg and Shanghai Chinese Culture Industry Investment Fund Chairman Li Ruigang. Due to the super strong Chinese behind-the-scenes team, about 1/3 of the entire “Kung Fu Panda 3” film was produced in China.

Another record set by “Kung Fu Panda 3” is the large number of Chinese elements, such as jade and the creation of the incredibly beautiful and verdant Qingcheng Mountain in Sichuan, Po’s hometown. Another example is the Po’s tribe’s skill of Qi Gong, which is one of the essences of Chinese culture. If you go to Qingcheng Mountain, there will be men, women and children practicing kung fu on the mountain. Not to mention those original ink animations and Chinese landscapes, a strong sense of Chinese culture can be seen throughout the entire film.

“Kung Fu Panda 3″ set in Chengdu Qingcheng Mountain and Jinli ancient street

Here’s the problem: Chinese and American cultures are different, which dictates a different way of storytelling. Chinese people like to teach while being entertained and everything has to end up with a moral. However, in the US, if a movie can make the audience sit in the chair for 90 minutes without moving, then that will be a big success.

Back then, the difficulty was not to find a few hundred million to make a movie. Financing was not a problem in 2012 when Katzenberg teamed up with Li Ruigang and Hong Kong Lan Kwai Fong Group Chairman Sheng Zhiwen to set up the joint venture “Oriental DreamWorks” and create “Kung Fu Panda 3”. The company raised $330 million in its first round of funding based on a 1.6x return on investment for Kung Fu Panda 1 and Kung Fu Panda 2. The joint venture project is 54.55% owned by the Chinese side and 45.45% by the American side. Later, Kung Fu Panda 3 only used 1/3 of the capital.

The biggest dispute between Li Ruigang in Shanghai and Katzenberg was who had the right to make the “Oriental Dream Factory” story.

Li Ruigang, Chairman of Shanghai Chinese Culture Industry Investment Fund

Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation

Li Ruigang insisted that all the animated films produced by Oriental Dream Factory are Chinese stories, so the Chinese side must have the right to speak and must have its own understanding, which means borrowing the “magic hands” of Hollywood to tell the Chinese stories.

Katzenberg, however, insisted on his right to make decisions about the story, saying he knew at a glance what kind of story would sell. His reason was very simple: if he likes you, he’ll pay for you. The average box office of the movies released by DreamWorks was between 400 million and 500 million USD. At that time in China, only “Pleasant Goat” and ”Big Big Wolf” made more than 100 million RMB at the box office. That was the status quo in 2012, and there were only 8,000 screens in Chinese cinemas.

The final solution was to set up a creative executive committee in Oriental Dream Factory by Rui Gang Lai. Katzenberg and Li Ruigang, would get a vote that must be agreed upon. The latter agreement was a betting proposition – if the first three films were successful, Li Ruigang would have the final decision thereafter. Faced with the fast-growing consumer market in China, Katzenberg decided to “bet” on it.

At the same time, a grand dream project was rising with “Kung Fu Panda 3” in a prime location of 8.6 square kilometers in Xuhui Riverside. This project, tentatively named “Dream Center”, was the first cultural real estate project jointly operated by Shanghai Chinese Culture Industry Fund and China Development Finance, with a total investment of about 15 billion yuan. It was the ” Dream Center” that landed in China together with “Kung Fu Panda”.

Such a commercial masterpiece is hard to see in China’s animation industry. Even later, the dark horse of the domestic animation box office champion, “Monkey King: Hero Is Back”, after the box office broke 1 billion, not even a shadow of a derivative product to see. Whereas “Kung Fu Panda” was already planning a $15 billion “Kung Fu Panda” theme park before the movie even started shooting!

Moving away from the success of Kung Fu Panda 1, 2 and 3, China’s box office in 2020 will surpass the 10 billion mark, catching up with the United States. 8,000 screens has increased to more than 80,000. But why isn’t there an inspiring and heartfelt movie like “The Pursuit of Happiness”? In the 40 years of reform and opening up, from 1981’s “Hibiscus Town” to 2021’s “Hi, Mom!” There is not a single story on the screen that can make billions of people around the world eager to know the story behind China’s economic myth. Whether it’s in English or Chinese, China’s economic miracle was created by the Chinese people. How did they create it? What kind of a heartfelt Chinese story can we tell that will bring audiences around the world into the heart of China?

Dr. Xiaoqiu Ma, Lifetime Chairman of the Family Awards, connecting to Hollywood

The story we are all looking for is Ma Xiaoqiu’s story. After listening to the 12 songs written and sung by her and several pictures that might become movie commercials, two Hollywood movie production companies decided to start shooting the story of Ma Xiaoqiu.

“I’m writing a Marvel movie,” said a screenwriter for a Netflix series after an interview with Ms. Ma Xiaoqiu. “Today, I saw a Marvel-style hero in my life.”

Another person after listening to Ma Xiaoqiu’s songs: “Ode to Fuxi”, “You are beside me” and ” Mutual Fulcrum ” said he could not help but have tears in his eyes, saying, “This is the Chinese Tao, which enters the world of morality through the power of music.”

Just as Bill Gates envisioned his Windows XBox, Musk today envisioned his plan to fly into outer space with Space X, this screenwriter envisioned his short film about Ma Xiaoqiu’s music as X Tao – The Way to the Unknown: The Power of Music.

Dr. Ma Xiaoqiu

On December 9th in Hollywood Hills, Dr. Ma Xiaoqiu, although anxious that she might speak English and have Chinese subtitles, completely trusted professionals to quietly reveal a clip to an audience of a hundred people.

When the time comes, we’ll report on it! Let’s see just how far and how close Hollywood is to China!

Mutual Fulcrum Lyrics: Ma Xiaoqiu Compose: Ma Xiaoqiu

The fulcrum of the sun is the horizon of the moon The fulcrum of the moon is the half of the sun The sun does not rotate without the moon Without the sun, the moon will not move
Your fulcrum is my emotion My fulcrum is your wishes
Years without you I will be lonely Without me your path is lonely
The fulcrum of the sun gives the four seasons

The fulcrum of the moon provides the night and day Your fulcrum and my fulcrum are sails of hope
Your fulcrum and my fulcrum promise the brilliance of tomorrow

The fulcrum of the sun is the horizon of the moon The fulcrum of the moon is the half of the sun The sun does not rotate without the moon Without the sun, the moon will not move
Your fulcrum is my emotion My fulcrum is your wishes
Years without you I will be lonely Without me your path is lonely
The fulcrum of the sun the warmth of the four seasons The fulcrum of the moon supports the night and day Your fulcrum and my fulcrum set up the sail of hope
Your fulcrum and my fulcrum promise the brilliance of tomorrow

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Listen to “Kemp Harris defies categorization. He is a singer and songwriter; a master weaver of American musical styles.” on Spreaker.

He’s also an actor, activist, author, and storyteller, and an award-winning educator who has taught young public school students for more than 40 years.

www.kempharris.band

Kemp has acted in numerous films and TV shows such as SMILF (Showtime), and is comfortable sharing the stage with artists such as Taj Mahal, Koko Taylor, and Gil Scott-Heron, as well as performing shows with his smokin’ band. He wrote and performed “If Loneliness Was Black” for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Complexions Dance Company. Kemp has also composed for WGBH Public Television/Boston.

Kemp’s powers of observation, his unique gift for shining a light on our modern world and what it means to be alive in these times, have only deepened over a lifetime devoted to the most basic and profound of pursuits, genuine human connection. Whether he’s in the classroom, on a film set, leading a workshop, or performing on the concert stage, at the end of the day, Kemp says, “I’m an old black man telling stories and spreading the love.”

“Thank you for sending us Kemp Harris. He is everything the world needs. And his songwriting is everything I could ever ask for.”

– Vivian Nesbit, Art Of The Song

“Kemp writes with honesty and heart. The stories and situations in his songs touch us all and makes us think. As the performance on his latest CD shows, he creates an experience for the audience that is personal and moving. ”
– Ron Olesko, WFDU

“Kemp Harris is a thief, a tease and a heartbreaker. He knows too much. And it’s all right there when he sings… beautifully there. He’ll take your breath away.”
– NPR, ‘On Point’

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SFFA is Entertainment and Tourism Committees Member of Hollywood Chamber Of Commerce
This is a unique kind of film festival for independent filmmakers/content creators where there are no barriers to borders, languages, genres, etc. Based in California, USA, this festival is having an online Award Nomination Festival, live screenings, and Standalone Award Show in Los Angeles. SFFA is consolidating filmmakers around the world for a wonderful presentation of cinematography and the unveiling of new talents. A committee comprising members from the film industry preview submitted films and select good works of motion pictures for the Award Nomination Festival. The selected films participate in The Awards nomination Festival which held for 3 months between Oct-Dec. This year it is between February 1, and March 31, (delayed due to pandemic situation) at UVT Cineplex (USA), a virtual theatre, available online across the World. Films screen through this secure server screener where visitors and guests from around the world can witness and vote for the film. On the basis of viewers’ choice and votes, 84 films nominated for 28 categories of Awards will be screened LIVE from August 6 – 12, 2021 and to honor filmmakers, actors, technicians at The Standalone Awards Show in TCL Chinese theatre 6, Hollywood Los Angeles on August 12, 2021 this year (usually scheduled in the 2nd week of February every year). The films show to visitors on payment. SFFA Submissions are for feature narratives, Short films, Shows, Series, documentaries, and animation as even experimental films and music videos. SFFA is being organized by UVT Studio LLC & United Media Works Pvt Ltd.

Kumaar Aadarsh is a popular Actor and Director. Latest movies which Kumaar Aadarsh has directed are Time To Retaliate: Masoom, Junoon: Once Upon A Time In Calcutta and Shringaar. Latest movies in which Kumaar Aadarsh has acted are Time To Retaliate: Masoom, Rooh and Shringaar.

Welcome to the Standalone Film Festival & Awards (SFFA).
SFFA is Entertainment and Tourism Committees Member of Hollywood Chamber Of Commerce

This is a unique kind of film festival for independent filmmakers/content creators where there are no barriers to borders, languages, genres, etc. Based in California, USA, this festival is having an online Award Nomination Festival, live screenings, and Standalone Award Show in Los Angeles. SFFA is consolidating filmmakers around the world for a wonderful presentation of cinematography and the unveiling of new talents. A committee comprising members from the film industry preview submitted films and select good works of motion pictures for the Award Nomination Festival. The selected films participate in The Awards nomination Festival which held for 3 months between Oct-Dec. This year it is between February 1, and March 31, (delayed due to pandemic situation) at UVT Cineplex (USA), a virtual theatre, available online across the World. Films screen through this secure server screener where visitors and guests from around the world can witness and vote for the film. On the basis of viewers’ choice and votes, 84 films nominated for 28 categories of Awards will be screened LIVE from August 6 – 12, 2021 and to honor filmmakers, actors, technicians at The Standalone Awards Show in TCL Chinese theatre 6, Hollywood Los Angeles on August 12, 2021 this year (usually scheduled in the 2nd week of February every year). The films show to visitors on payment. SFFA Submissions are for feature narratives, Short films, Shows, Series, documentaries, and animation as even experimental films and music videos. SFFA is being organized by UVT Studio LLC & United Media Works Pvt Ltd.

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Hi Hi!

We all need a good music during this nutty time, so the next theme is The Music Mania Secret Speakeasy for all of you! Sunday June 6th 7pm. From Louie Armstrong to Ike & Tina to the Doors!

http://www.secretspeakeasy.com/

Also, I placed some pics and history below for you of some cool new thingies, like a rare 16mm film of the early 1900’s Disney Alice Comedies (Alice in Wonderland animation/live action films) and Spanish & Hebrew Scopitones, and George Melies Trip to the Moon wirephoto and even a Jack Lalanne 16mm film! Enjoy! 

First though, I want to thank everyone for responding to my call to help the Museum! We had to pay $30,000 by mid June for the Covid debt. Well guess what, as of today I paid down $25,000, we only owe $5,000. Please help with what you can. I will officially retire someday with just over $1,900 and a box of Choc Chip Cookies but I am gonna make this happen! lolWe are almost there, I need your help please  

Below are links to help with. Thanks so much for helping. If you’re broke then a virtual hug and some sweet words help so much too!

Cheerios!

Denny

https://www.paypal.me/museumthings
paypal ONLY as Friends & Family
otherwise they take a large fee
https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-museum-of-interesting-things?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

Also Vemno takes no fees to this email
dennydanielx@gmail.com  or my ID @dennydaniel

Here is an interview I did with an arts organization, D’Arts Connectors Musings.
Enjoy!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7O0crLqx88

Libraries / Schools / events see below for a wide range of cool & educational exhibitions with many many themes! And you can have the Museum come to you live or virtual!

You can finally come visit the Museum live and virtual too (by appt, give at least 1 day notice) email me to schedule a visit and tour! And we have a Birthday gift show you can enjoy too!

Want some interesting things…well I made a Merchandise shop if you wanna get interesting thingies with film and antiques images on them.
https://teespring.com/stores/interestingthings

I really appreciate your support just reading this email or visiting or donating!
Enjoy!Upcoming shows:

EVERYTHING IS NYC EASTERN USA TIME ZONE
Sun June 1, 2021 7pm
Music Mania
Secret Speakeasy
live & virtual
our best music 16mm films from Jazz to Rock & Roll
www.secretspeakeasy.com

Sat June 12, 2021 3pm – 8pm
Mud Island Lawn Party in PHILLY
https://fortmifflin.ticketleap.com/mud-island-lawn-party/

Wed June 16, 2021 7pm – 8pm
The History I Learned from Bugs Bunny
The Field Library
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sf–opz8sG93wPyXF18WGsmMSlEdIGQxR

Sun June 20, 2021 all day
Wag Days pet event in PHILLY
https://www.facebook.com/events/752589858786581

Tues June 22, 2021 7pm – 8pm
The History of Animation
Amity Library
Want a private virtual Birthday surprise?
We have the world’s largest collection of Bday 45’s & 78’s & more! And we will play a 16mm short film just for you and your guests and an unboxing and show antiques of your choice for your Birthday or just for fun!
Email: DennyDanielx@gmail.com to schedule or call 212.274.8757 (no text)

And you can do this even if it is Not your Birthday too, cause every day is your B-Day here!

If you can support please do, anything helps if you are able 
https://www.paypal.me/museumthings
as friend and family pls or they take a big cut!

For more events and updates:
http://www.museumofinterestingthings.org/news.html

Teachers, Parents, libraries, break up the monotony and email me for a live virtual show. Like the History of Invention, or history of Music, Quack Medicine or Photography or even a 16mm film presentation.

Check out our Instagram for some live thingies
https://www.instagram.com/museumthings/

Check out our Facebook for live thingies too
https://www.facebook.com/museumthings

Also Check out our Youtube, & Twitter ! I place cool pics, our Unboxing vids,  interesting videos and info there too

Hey Schools, Libraries & Events!

We have some great themes like
Eureka! The History of Invention,
The History of NY on 16mm film,
The History of Communication,
The Windup Circus &
the 16mm Sing-A-Long and other 16mm festivals like music, jazz, Animation, Space and WW2, photography, 3D History, also science, Suffragettes, WW2/cold war antiques and any era of history, and our new civil rights/black inventors show and even history of math and music exhibitions!

Dennydanielx@gmail.com 212 274 8757 no text
www.museumofinterestingthings.com

– Last but certainly not least…More More More New Things are below too!

Hope to catch ya sooooon!
Enjoy!
Cheerios!
Denny
212 274 8757

www.museumofinterestingthings.org

The Museum of Interesting Things now brings it’s inspiring, positive and educational show to the virtual world as well as live, We Are Open.

We can go anywhere on the planet and we are open for live or virtual historical presentations at your venue or ours as well as private tours too at our location in the Village NYC! (also virtual or live)

Lets bring back curiosity and positivity!

We will bring our actual historic items to your eyes and ears to educate while bringing back curiosity and tinkering.

Schools, Libraries and Events too!  Live or virtually.

This is a live or virtual presentation with actual antiques where we have the adults and kids interact and learn as much as possible.

And now we can also do 16mm Film festival too! The Museum supplies everything for you.

You can still choose your theme or subject too.

Eureka! The History of Invention

Our Green Energy show – The Windup Circus

Can You Hear Me Now! The History of Communication

The History of Film and Photography

DOOMSDAY!  The History of WW2, the Cold war & Space Race

“It Hurts When I Do This” The History of Quack Medicine show

Suffragist / Civil Rights / Computers / Retro Future and more!

Film Fest Include:

The Windup Circus films: Cartoon/Animation Film Festival

16mm vintage film Bouncing Ball Sing-A-Long

16mm Vintage Jazz short Film Festival

16mm Doomsday show! – WW2, Cold War / Civil Defense / Space Race film festival with original vintage films

A Trip to the Moon, Georges Méliès film fest

Summer of Love Film Festival, The Inventive & Musical History of the 60’s & 70’s!

And we will work with your new formate no matter what it is!

Now we can teach curiosity and tinkering anywhere in the world!

Call or email for details.

Denny Daniel

212 274 8757 no text

dennydanielx@gmail.com

www.museumthings.org

The Museum of Interesting Things is a traveling interactive demonstration/exhibition of antiques and inventions that goes to schools, libraries and events virtually or physically and inspires kids and adults to be curious. We bring back tinkering. I like to say it shows kids and adults that their ipods did not pop out of thin air! Like a circus…just no elephants!

“Eureka!”

The Invention Show

Exploring the industrial revolution and mechanical era, with interactive demonstrations of such items as the steam engine, Thomas Edison cylinder phonograph, windup toys, camera obscuras and mechanical/gear based household items such as a box wooden telephone.

For the Museum’s 16mm early film show I got this 16mm Film WALT DISNEY “ALICE’S EGG PLANT” 1925. The Alice Comedies are a series of animated/live-action shorts created by Walt Disney in the 1920s, in which a live action little girl named Alice (originally played by Virginia Davis) and an animated cat named Julius have adventures in an animated landscape. (wiki)

For the Museum film program on health and exercise I got this BIKETTE COMMERCIAL JACK LaLANNE 16MM FILM ON 3″ REEL. Jack was an American fitness and nutrition guru and motivational speaker. He had so many TV shows and books and opened his first fitness club in CA in 1936! He lived until 2011! As a kid he was the meaning of fitness.

Hi hi!

Wanted to let you know about The Museum of Interesting Things Music Mania Secret Speakeasy.

Sun June 6th

7pm – 9pm all ages NYC time

Virtual or Live, whatever suits you

See 16mm vintage short 50’s, 60’s/70’s & even some 80’s Rockin, Dance, Jazz, Soundies films

Enjoy actual antiques you can virtually handle

and get demonstrated!

I WILL be there with the antiques playing films

You can enjoy from home, …Dance on the sofa and even dress like a Hippie of course! Or come visit live, check this website before leaving of course.

In the spirit of a true Speakeasy

Anything can change so…

Please check this website before leaving.

http://www.secretspeakeasy.com

We will bring items from our vast collection of antiques most you can actually handle

All eras of history some over 100 years old too!

177 Princes Str 3rd Flr NYC NY

$10 to help the Museum

212 274 8757

between Thompson & Sullivan str

Advance Tickets:

https://musicmaniasse0621.

eventbrite.com

I just got for the Museum’s history of Music show this Rubber Soul by The Beatles (Vinyl) 1965 1st Pressing. This was their 6th studio LP and released just before Xmas. The name Rubber Soul came about after McCartney heard an American musician use the term “plastic soul” when referring to Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. The UK version had 2 more songs, they wanted to be more folk for the US version. The Museum’s collection of records is over 2000!

This is the 16mm SCOPITONE film – LA PACHANGA – by AUDREY ARNO sung in Spanish. It means the Party I believe. In the 1960’s and early 70’s Scopitones were film Juke Boxes you would find in a tavern or any place you would see a jukebox. For 25 cents you see and hear a 16mm film right there on the screen! I also got a really rare Hebrew one of HAVA NAGUILA – 1959 – by RIKA ZARAI.  Rika Zaraï was an Israeli singer and writer. She popularized Israeli classic songs such as Hava Nagila, Yerushalayim shel zahav and Hallelujah.The Museum has over 100 scopitone films, we will certainly do another festival again this summer, the last one was very popular. The films we fun and cheesy and a bit risque, remember, they were for people who were often drunk and men. hehe

For the Museum’s Trip to the Moon show I got this Press Photo of scenes from “Alive from Off Center: A Tribute to George Melies”. Program Two: in A Tribute to George Melies, the lost scripts of cinema’s master of special effects (left), George Melies, are given whimsical reinterpretations by modern filmmakers on Alive From Off Center. (Top right) Christopher Malavoy stars in Pierre Etaix’s “The Artist’s Dream”; (bottom right) David Rocheline and Daria Elies are featured in Philippe Gautier’s “The Seven Deadly Sins.” Program Two premieres on Thursday, July 6, 1989 at 8:30 p.m. ET on PBS. A production of KTCA-TV, Minneapolis/St. Paul, the series showcases the world’s leading video, film and performing artists.

Extra! Extra! For our NYC peeps… UBREAKIFIX on 46 East  8th repairs nearly everything from Iphones to computers and more, they even do HD recovery and will give a discount if you mention the Museum.

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18 TO PARTY

Director/ Screenwriter: Jeff Roda

Starring: Alivia Clark, Tanner Flood, James Freedson-Jackson, Oliver Gifford, Nolan Lyons, Sam McCarthy, Ivy Miller, Taylor Richardson and Erich Schuett.

Producers: Nikola Duravcevic, Emily Ziff Griffin, Andrew Cahill and Stephanie Marin.

Including music by: The Alarm, Big Audio Dynamite, Mick Jones, The Velvet Underground and many more.

WFF 2019 Official Screenings:

Friday, October 4th
WORLD PREMIERE: 9:30PM (Upstate Films, Woodstock)
Q&A to follow with filmmaker and key cast.

Sunday, October 6th
3:15PM (Rosendale Theater)
Q&A to follow with filmmaker and key cast.

It’s 1984 and outside a small-town nightclub, a group of 8th graders gather, grappling with a spate of recent suicides, UFO sightings, their absentee parents, and each other. 18 TO PARTY spans a single evening in the lives of these kids, but manages to transport us fully to a time when waiting for something to happen felt just as significant as the thing itself. Gorgeously atmospheric, with a pulsating sense of anticipation that steadily builds, the film pulls us into the fears, wounds, and desires of each character, ultimately revealing that hope may arrive from the last place we expect. The meticulously authentic production design, killer soundtrack, and universally excellent performances recall the spirit of classic 80s teen movies like Stand By Me and The Breakfast Club.

18 TO PARTY is a spot-on love letter to Gen X, awkward teenagers, and the transcendent power of friendship.

FILMMAKER JEFF RODA

Jeff Roda has written screenplays for DreamWorks, Universal, Paramount Pictures, New Regency, TriStar, and television pilots for HBO, CBS, and Warner Bros. Additionally, he was a producer on the Sony Pictures Classics feature, Love Liza, starring Academy Award winning actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Kathy Bates. 18 TO PARTY marks his directorial debut.

Roda is a local resident of Woodstock area and the film is set in Upstate New York.

WFF 2019 Ticket Information: http://woodstockfilmfestival.org/ticketinfo

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“I was delighted to have the film screened by the Eco-Teen action network who will host an Open House at the Smithsonian May 18th, 2019,” said Director Miriam Gennari.  “The event was attended by 200 people and sponsored by JBG SMITH, a real estate development company in northern Virginia.”

The Global Co-Lab is Network incubates change utilizing small, carefully crafted, HUB gatherings called CO-LABS that focus on youth passions for making the world a better place and identifying expertise around their ideas to curate networks who provide support.

“The film Styrofoammom is available for screening by nonprofits, government municipalities, libraries and for profit companies who are looking for sustainable practices,” said Gennari.

For more information, or to schedule a screening, please contact Metromakeover Films or contact us on email at marketing@metromakeover.com.

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