Garden State Film Festival: JS37 (The Ashes of a Dream)

Sunday, March 29, 2026 @ 2:30pm

Jersey Shore Arts Center
66 South Main Street, Ocean Grove, NJ 07756

The Ashes of a Dream - Randy Lupo returns to Staten Island to find his mother drifting into the quiet shadows of age. She compels him to right the wrongs she believes were done to her and left to fester in the silence of passing years. As he navigates the still streets of his past—from weathered boardwalks to long-forgotten corners of his youth—Randy is pulled into a reckoning with the life he left behind, where old debts linger, memory blurs with regret, and redemption may lie in the spaces between what was lost and what remains. Directed by Joe Nuzzolo (02:12:00) New Jersey Premiere