I love Key West, it’s my “happy place.” I can’t get enough of the people, the attitude, the climate – it really is paradise. The island is home to some of the most intellectually and artistically creative minds found on the planet. One of them is my friend David. Those of you who have been hanging out on Mary’s Corner know all about David L. Sloan – entreprenuer, author, great guy and even better friend, and now – Filmmaker!
The Stock Island Picture Show, a Marrero/Sloan production, is a documentary highlighting the parts of paradise the average tourist doesn’t see on the conch train. The beginning finds us on an episode of a fictitious game show “Trashed or Treasured,” pitting a service industry worker 
against a money hungry developer. It’s a tongue-in-cheek look at an all too common theme in Paradise – those who have keep taking, while the regular guy toils away hoping to keep what little he’s managed to acquire. The game show is hi-jacked by Mike, who takes us on a road less traveled through the mangroves where the homeless live, past the trailers, to where the shrimpers hang out trading stories. Later on we meet the very first man to arrive at the Mariel Boatlift in Cuba – it’s a story like none you’ve heard lately, I promise you that.
To check out a clip of The Stock Island Picture Show or to buy your copy go to www.marrerostudio.com. I have the full length DVD including the oddly hilarious BUG:30 (picture an ax wielding exterminator from hell) a short film created from start to finish in 48 hours.
Thanks for listening:)
Tags: David L Sloan, Key West, Key West Picture Show, Mike Marrero, Stock Island
