Peachtree City, GA | March 26, 2025

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Invisible Mansion Pictures, the production company behind the upcoming family drama, The Loved and Lost, is announcing the festival run of the new documentary film, RIDE IN PARADISE. The film chronicles the journey of Brad Behle, a Utah native, through personal loss and subsequently ten years of bitterness and anger. In the depths of his confusion, Brad discovers a new source of connection and healing when he delivers a stuffed animal to a woman five months after the death of her five-year-old son, Keaton Howard. This quick and simple exchange is the springboard for the film's story, and the next ten years of Brad's life.

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The film was the vision of director Kent Thalman, who received a teddy bear from Brad all the way across the country in Peachtree City, GA, USA, eight months after the passing of his son, Seth. As the project developed, producer Anna Thalman stepped in as co-director, running several interviews, and working closely with her husband/creative partner, Kent Thalman, to craft an edit that captures both the intimacy and breadth of Brad's journey of delivering teddy bears on his Harley-Davidson, one at a time, over the course of ten years.

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"The film was a practice in meditation," said director Kent Thalman. "We filmed looking for moments, more than for cool shots or great sound bites. We were aiming to receive, rather than to contrive." The filmmaker's belief was that the power of the film would be best derived by allowing it to unfold, rather than to force something that might not exist naturally. And it paid off. The film's conclusion was the best gift of all. "We couldn't have made up how this community of bear-recipients comes together by the end of the film," says Thalman. "We're just grateful to have been a part of it."

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View the teaser trailer HERE

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RIDE IN PARADISE premiered at the 2025 Zion's Indie Film Festival in Orem, UT on March 1st of this year to a standing ovation of over 300 audience members, and received several awards, including the Zion's Indie Spirit Award and the Audience Choice - Documentary Award. It won Best Local Film at the Atlanta DocuFest on March 22nd, and is showing at the Kansas City Film Festival on March 29th at 1:35 PM. RIDE IN PARADISE has been nominated for Best Documentary and Best Director at the International Christian Film Festival in Orlando, FL, showing at DoubleTree by Hilton at SeaWorld on Saturday, May 3rd. No distribution deal has been signed as yet. "We are excited by the enthusiasm of distributors after the premiere," says Kent Thalman, "and we are confident the film will reach countless audience members with whomever we decide to partner."

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About Invisible Mansion Pictures: Invisible Mansion Pictures was founded in 2017 by Kent and Anna Thalman, and is the production arm behind their narrative film projects, including both documentary and fiction feature films. In a world where most of us care too much about things that matter too little, IMP’s mission is to create cinema that reminds people from all backgrounds of what matters most in life through unheard stories, told in unique ways.