If you\u2019ve seen cameras and crews around the Lehigh Valley, there\u2019s a reason \u2014 a local filmmaker and actor is working with his daughter on their next picture.<\/p>\n
\u201cMen of Granite\u201d has been filming this summer in the Lehigh Valley. The film was announced online back in April<\/a> by Bethlehem native Daniel Roebuck through his nonprofit entertainment company A Channel of Peace. He is the film\u2019s co-writer and co-director alongside his daughter Grace.<\/p>\n \u201cFour grumpy Vietnam vets from different branches of the military work together as the honor guard at a memorial cemetery,\u201d according to a film synopsis on the A Channel of Peace<\/a> website. \u201cTheir lives are turned upside down when a 19 year-old is forced to do community service at the cemetery.\u201d<\/p>\n Filming began July 20<\/a> and has included locations such as Hotel Bethlehem<\/a>, Bethlehem Emergency Sheltering<\/a>, Sine\u2019s 5 & 10<\/a> in Quakertown and The Union Cemetery<\/a> in Hellertown.<\/p>\n \u201cMen of Granite,\u201d scheduled to show in theaters Veteran\u2019s Day in 2027<\/a>, follows other films of Roebuck\u2019s such as \u201cSaint Nick of Bethlehem\u201d<\/a> and \u201cThe Hail Mary.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve seen cameras and crews around the Lehigh Valley, there\u2019s a reason \u2014 a local filmmaker and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,1681,289,432],"class_list":["post-259601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-entertainment","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}