SerlingFest 2025, Binghamton, New York USA • Friday SEP 19—Sunday SEP 21
PARKING | SCHEDULE & SYNOPSES | 2 RAFFLES! | THINGS TO DO in Bing | OTHER EVENTS | FACEBOOK | YOUTUBE | PROMOS | MERCH
SerlingFest 2025 Promos
Coming in August – Joseph talks with Billiam Klavon of the Thursdeighties: The Greatest Decade Podcast about Rod Serling’s lasting impact on media, culture, and storytelling, and how his work inspired Joseph to become a writer. In the meantime, check out other episodes of Thursdeighties!
Fun Fact: TV writer Joseph Dougherty (Thirtysomething and more) won the very first
Narrate Your Own Twilight Zone contest with “Split the Difference“.
Exciting news! Producer/Director Jonah Tulis will be our guest at SerlingFest 2025 to provide an exclusive sneak peek at his upcoming Rod Serling documentary, currently in production for Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions. From Jonah:
SERLING (working title) is an immersive and intimate first-person journey exploring the life and legacy of one of television’s most visionary storytellers, Rod Serling. Told almost entirely in Rod Serling’s own words, drawn from never-before-heard recordings, personal dictations, and long-lost broadcasts, the film captures the man behind The Twilight Zone in all his complexity and how he turned social conscience and imagination into timeless art.
Shot in stark black and white with a 4:3 aspect ratio, the film weaves archival material with stylized atmospheric recreations that echo the eerie visual language Serling made iconic. The result is a dreamlike journey through the defining chapters of Serling’s life: from the trenches of World War II, to the golden age of live television, to the cultural flashpoints where fiction and truth collide. As his unmistakable voice guides us through these shadows, Serling emerges not only as a master of storytelling, but as a man grappling with the trauma of war, the moral compromises of fame, and the hope that America might one day live up to its own ideals.
