An award-winning filmmaker continues to rack up the accolades.

This time, Palmerton native Noah Berlow has helped make Hollywood History.

On Feb. 28, the Los Angeles-based filmmaker recently co-produced and edited the world premiere of “Spacemen from Planet Judy,” an audio-only science-fiction narrative starring Paula Abdul, Phil Hendrie, and Hal Rudnick.

This marks the first documented time a feature-length, audio-only narrative has debuted at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. The nearly century-old theater is one of the most recognizable movie venues in the world that has hosted traditional film premieres since opening in 1927.

He said the project allowed audiences to experience the story entirely through voice performances, an original soundtrack and cinematic sound design while the theater’s iconic screen displayed the project’s marquee artwork.

Berlow said what sets the premiere apart is that it wasn’t a traditional film screening.

“The project is presented as a feature-length cinematic sound play, meaning the story unfolds entirely through voice performances, music, and sound design rather than visuals,” Berlow said. “During the screening, the audience watched a cosmic star field on the screen while the full story played through the theater sound system.”

Berlow said the production resurrects a screenplay originally written in 1984 and reimagines it as a modern “cinematic sound play.”

The story follows two ordinary New Yorkers who are swept into an intergalactic odyssey after an unexplained alien invasion transports them to Planet Judy, a dazzling palace civilization hiding a dangerous plan to destroy Earth.

“After looking into the theater’s history, I wasn’t able to find any documented instance of a feature-length audio-only narrative premiering at the Chinese Theatre, which has hosted traditional film premieres since it opened in 1927,” he said. “It may be the first example of that kind of presentation in Hollywood.”

The production stars pop icon Abdul, Radio Hall of Fame broadcaster Hendrie and comedian Rudnick. The project was written by Bob Destri Hilgenberg, Billy Riback, Steven Jay Rubin, Bruce Smirnoff and the late Mark Goldstein. Riback, Rubin and Smirnoff produced, with Berlow and music supervisor Szilva Vecserdy serving as co-producers. The original score was composed by Chris Landon and Vecserdy.

“The idea behind the project draws on the long tradition of storytelling through sound, from Orson Welles’ famous 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds to the era of “radio movies”,” Berlow said. “Early cinema was silent, and this project explores what happens when you remove the visuals again and let sound carry the story and play inside the audience’s imagination.”

Berlow noted the screening also marked his sixth project to be presented at the Chinese Theatre, “which was a meaningful milestone personally considering it all started growing up in Palmerton.”

After graduating from Ithaca College, Berlow began his career editing Holocaust survivor testimonies for USC Shoah Foundation, work that shaped his instinct for purposeful, emotionally driven storytelling.

He has since built a body of work that bridges documentary filmmaking and experimental narrative, with previous projects screened at the Chinese Theatre including Kumpania Flamenco Los Angeles, What If, Who We Are, Act As If, and I Stand Alone: The Sully Erna Story.

The Hollywood premiere followed a year of recognition abroad.

In 2025, Berlow received the Global Icon Award at the Festival of Globe India Day Parade in Fremont, California, where he served as co-marshal alongside Vecserdy and Bollywood star Bhagyashree.

But it is the philosophy behind Spacemen from Planet Judy that Berlow says feels most personal about the evolving landscape of the entertainment industry.

“When sound is crafted the right way, the audience begins to construct the spectacle entirely inside their own imagination,” Berlow said.

He believes the project reflects something larger about where storytelling is headed.

“As rapid technological shifts propel us into an uncharted era of filmmaking, it won’t be the tools that define the future of the industry. It will be the artists,” Berlow said. “True innovation belongs to the creatives bold enough to reinvent how we experience a story.”

Berlow’s production company, Immortal Cinema International, is based in Los Angeles. More information is available at immortalcinema.com.