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The Joedance Film Festival, a multi-day event held at Charlotte Ballet headquarters in 2018 and 2019, will happen virtually this year due to COVID-19.
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What Joe Wanted
BRANDON SCOTT
A decade after he died of bone cancer, Joe Restaino lives on through a film festival and critical research BY CRISTINA BOLLING
A QUESTION RUNS THROUGH DIANE RESTAINO’S MIND each time she makes a decision as the captain of a growing non profit for pediatric cancer research: What would Joe want? Her son, Joe Restaino, died of bone cancer in 2010, at age 20. As he waged his 4-year battle with osteosarcoma, up until he could no longer talk, Joe gave his parents a specific list and made them promise they’d follow through. Continued on next page AUGUST 2020 // CHARLOTTE
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