Screenplay
MOLE MAN follows RON, a 66-year-old autistic man who has spent the last five decades building a 50-room structure in his parents' backyard. Using no nails or mortar, Ron instead creates perfectly balanced structures from scavenged materials he finds in the woods outside his Western Pennsylvania home. When Ron's father passes away, leaving him living alone with his 90-year-old mother, Ron's siblings are left to figure out what's best for Ron - who has never been officially diagnosed with autism - when his mother can no longer care for him. In an effort to find the money to keep Ron in his home, his friends team up in search of a mythical mansion Ron insists lays abandoned in the forest. But will they be able to find it? And, more importantly, does it even exist? This is the story of an extraordinary life, a family, and the beauty of thinking differently.
Director
MOLE MAN follows RON, a 66-year-old autistic man who has spent the last five decades building a 50-room structure in his parents' backyard. Using no nails or mortar, Ron instead creates perfectly balanced structures from scavenged materials he finds in the woods outside his Western Pennsylvania home. When Ron's father passes away, leaving him living alone with his 90-year-old mother, Ron's siblings are left to figure out what's best for Ron - who has never been officially diagnosed with autism - when his mother can no longer care for him. In an effort to find the money to keep Ron in his home, his friends team up in search of a mythical mansion Ron insists lays abandoned in the forest. But will they be able to find it? And, more importantly, does it even exist? This is the story of an extraordinary life, a family, and the beauty of thinking differently.
Director
The debut comedy special by Joe Praino. Filmed live at The Stand comedy club in New York City.
Production Assistant
Corría el año 1977, durante uno de los veranos más agitados y decadentes que haya vivido Nueva York. Fue entonces cuando, en medio de apagones, desórdenes callejeros, los asesinatos en serie del ‘Hijo de Sam’ y el auge de la legendaria discoteca Estudio 54, se produjo un prodigio de inspiración absolutamente inesperado: el ascenso del Cosmos de Nueva York, el primer gran equipo norteamericano de fútbol, y de su superestrella Pelé. Adorado de la noche a la mañana por una ciudad obsesionada con la fama y el éxito, el Cosmos encendió la llama del primer amor pasional de Norteamérica con el deporte más popular del planeta. Arrastrado, sin embargo, por el torrente imparable de la fama, el glamour y el desenfreno, el Cosmos encontró su destrucción.
