Daniel Baldwin On Screening His Film “My Promise To PJ” At The Long Beach International Film Festival, Long Island & More
An international film festival founded in 2012, the Long Beach International Film Festival will be presenting its 9th edition later this month. Based around the Long Beach area within Nassau County, the LBIFF has a lot more to offer than great independent movies. The festival has brought together top independent filmmakers, chefs, musicians, charitable events and local business-owners over the years, pairing such with celebrities and world-premiere film screenings. This year’s LBIFF will screen an international slate of over 40 films, including feature-length narrative, documentary, short and animated selections which will compete for a series of criteria-based Jury Awards.
One of the films screening at this year’s LBIFF is My Promise To PJ. Prior to the filming of this documentary, a young man named PJ Raynor was promised that if he stayed sober for 2 years from heroin he would be taken to run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. While he accomplished this sobriety milestone, Raynor ultimately relapsed and died. Award-winning actor Daniel Baldwin — who directed the film — then took his ashes and ran with the bulls fulfilling this promise. Baldwin’s film will be screening on July 30, 2021 at 8:30 PM, beachfront at the Allegria Hotel in Long Beach, New York.
Interestingly, My Promise To PJ is not the first Daniel Baldwin-directed film to be screened at the LBIFF. Considered an “LBIFF 2014 Alumni Filmmaker,” Baldwin won festival honors for his film The Wisdom To Know The Difference, which also took home honors from other U.S. film festivals. Commented Baldwin in a prepared statement about My Promise To PJ: “My hope is that this film will give a voice to those left behind. That watching this film may save a life and give recognition to the power of faith.”
On July 22, 2021, I had the pleasure of speaking with Daniel Baldwin via Zoom, as embedded below. Beyond My Promise To PJ, we discussed future projects he has coming up, his Long Island roots, his history with Long Beach, and the importance of family in his everyday life. More on Baldwin, the Long Beach International Film Festival and My Promise To PJ can be found by clicking here, here and here.
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Darren Paltrowitz Darren Paltrowitz is a New York resident with over 20 years of entertainment industry experience. He began working around the music business as a teenager, interning for the manager of his then-favorite band Superdrag. Since then, he has worked with a wide array of artists including OK Go, They Might Be Giants, Mike Viola, Tracy Bonham, Loudness, Rachael Yamagata, and Amanda Palmer. Darren's writing has appeared in dozens of outlets including the New York Daily News, Inquisitr, The Daily Meal, The Hype Magazine, All Music Guide, Guitar World, TheStreet.com, Businessweek, Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, and the Jewish Journal.Beyond being "Editor At Large" for The Hype Magazine, Darren is also the host of weekly "Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz" series, which airs on dozens on television and digital networks. He has also co-authored 2 published books, 2018's "Pocket Change: Your Happy Money" (Book Web Publishing) and 2019's "Good Advice From Professional Wrestling" (6623 Press), and co-hosts the world's only known podcast about David Lee Roth, "The DLR Cast."
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