“The Ladder” to Have East Coast Premiere at Golden Door International Film Festival on Saturday

(JERSEY CITY, NJ) — Fresh off multiple festival wins across the country, the critically acclaimed, Alaskan sci-fi drama The Ladder will have its East Coast premiere this Saturday, June 28, 2025 at the Golden Door International Film Festival in Jersey City. Writer-director Emilio Miguel Torres in attendance.

The screening marks a homecoming of sorts: Torres, a 2021 NYU Tisch graduate who was raised in Ketchikan, Alaska, assembled an almost entirely NYU alumni crew to shoot the film, including producer Alexandria Hellman, cinematographer Toby Romero, and many other emerging NYU-alum filmmakers, who traveled to Alaska for three weeks of principal photography in fall 2023.

The Ladder tells the story of an aging Alaskan fisherman grieving his late wife…