Revelation: The Rest Is Silence
About the Film
REVELATION: THE REST IS SILENCE tells the story of a Nuyorican political family. In the wake of tragedy, 24-year-old Angel Cortez is reeling from the sudden death of his father, Antonio Cortez, a beloved but controversial reformist Mayor of New York City. Once a promising young artist with dreams far from politics, Angel now finds himself lost, grappling with overwhelming grief, a growing addiction, and following his uncle Cristobal’s announcement of his own running for mayor, a gnawing suspicion that his father’s death wasn’t the accident the public believes it to be.
Director: Ken LaZebnik and Anthony Ruiz
Producers: Christopher D. Arnold, Kmur Hardeman, Ken LaZebnik
United States // 2025 // Drama // Los Especiales
25 minutes
About the Filmmaker
Ken LaZebnik, Director of LIU’s Film School, and Director of the LIU TV Writers Studio, is a screenwriter, playwright, and television writer. With Garrison Keillor, he co-wrote Robert Altman’s last film, A Prairie Home Companion. He also wrote The Christmas Cottage, starring Peter O’Toole and Marcia Gay Harden. Over the past twenty-five years, he has written over 100 hours of network television, including twenty episodes of Touched By An Angel. He also wrote and produced for such shows as Star Trek: Enterprise, Army Wives, Providence, and When Calls the Heart. His play On The Spectrum was the recipient of a Harold and Mimi Steinberg Award.
Anthony Ruiz has guest starred on The Equalizer, Madam Secretary, Only Murders in the Building, New Amsterdam, The Changling, Lioness and The Other Two. He’s also appeared on all the Law & Orders (12 times), more than any other Latino actor and on The Late Show with David Letterman where he appeared many times as Carlos Slim - The World's Richest Man. He’s written three short films Dogs, Rattled and Truth Will Out and the full length film No Way Out (in pre-production).
