Joe Rulli, owner and operator of the Joey’s Pizza and Pasta restaurants on LBI and the mainland since 1990, recently partnered with New Jersey filmmaker and actor Kevin Interdonato to produce both a film titled “LUPO” and a three-part documentary of Rulli’s father’s life story.
LIFE STORY: The amateur boxer (above) was a welterweight contender, here about 1949. (Right) Joe Rulli Sr. pauses for a proud moment with Jr., 1966.
“We finished filming last week and are now in post-production,” Rulli said this week. “The doc will be finished by the end of January.”
Describing it as an “unbelievable experience,” he said they secured many known actors to appear in the true crime drama.
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