Joe Restaino loved his family, his friends, cinema and life. He lived for four years and eight days after being diagnosed with a rare pediatric cancer at the age of 16. He left a legacy: a to-do list asking his family to aid in research so that other young people would someday benefit from better treatments of pediatric cancers.
Joedance Film Festival was founded after Joe’s death in 2010 and has funded research for better pediatric cancer treatments at Levine Children's. Joe’s list is being checked off item by item, dollar by dollar, and success by success