Glen Cove High School alum kick starts drive-in movie series

Glen Cove High School alumni Tiffany Reveyoso, 22, along with her boyfriend Davon Woodard, 21, of the Bronx, will be kicking off their drive-in movie series on Friday, July 17, with the movie “Remember the Titans.”

The movie, starring actor Denzel Washington, depicts the true story of an African-American coach and his quest to integrate the T.C. Williams High School football team in 1971. A percentage of proceeds from the showing will be going to the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, which works to support historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

“Anybody can do anything and that’s what the movie says to us,” Reveyoso said. “It’s important for people to know that we’re not just some big company, that is profiting off of this community. [That] this is someone from the community that is going to benefit the community by giving back to that same community.”

How Reveyoso and Woodard were able to launch their drive-in movie business, Quarantine Entertainment, started about a month ago with a conversation.

“Originally, it was just a conversation with my mother, boyfriend and I,” Reveyoso said. “She was reminiscing about the older days, the 60s and 70s, when drive-in theaters were a commonality. We were just thinking that this is the time drive-ins could come back.”

In order to achieve this, the two worked to secure the necessary equipment, After visiting 20 different venues, they were able to find a popular — the Broadway Commons Mall in Hicksville.

“We’re not being handed down any royalties from my family or any other resources, we’re doing this all on our own and anybody else can do it,” Woodard said.

And after their first showing, the couple, who met through the St. John’s University accounting program, is hoping to show movies within every genre, which will take place at different locations throughout the island and will come to the big screen more than once a week. Each showing will support different causes as well.

When asked if her time at GCHS, which began at the age of 16, prepared her for such an endeavor, Reveyoso said yes.

“Long Island was definitely different than Maryland, where I’m from, but they definitely set me up for success,” Reveyoso said. “The staff and faculty that I had at Glen Cove is unlike any other. They truly set me up to see the world differently.”

Glen Cove City School District Superintendent Dr. Maria L. Rianna said that she is proud of GCHS grads like Reveyoso.

“I think we have amazing young people and I think it’s great that they’re active in the community and that they’re doing so many thoughtful things,” Rianna said, noting that she has been in touch with Reveyoso. “They’re doing such positive things. I love it.”

“It’s been very heartwarming to see a community that we weren’t born and raised in  welcome us as they have and embrace us the way they had,” Reveyoso said. “It’s just been a very uplifting time.”