Searching for Paradise
88 minutes, 2002 (Feature)
A film by Myra Paci ’83
Starring: Chris Noth
Screening:
Sunday, 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Gilda
Mattei, just graduating from high school, is infatuated with the sexy and
enigmatic Hollywood movie star Michael De Santis. With her new video camcorder
she documents her fascination with him, her internal world of dreams and
fantasies, and her strained though loving relationship with her dying father.
After her father dies, Gilda discovers evidence of his long affair with an
Italian woman. Her crush on Michael De Santis takes an obsessive turn and she
decides to go on a search to find him. Posing as an Italian journalist with the
same name and persona as her father’s mistress, she succeeds in making it on to
the film set where De Santis is shooting and to a private interview with him.
She finds that De Santis is both exactly what she expected and nothing of the
kind, just like her father.
Filmmaker Bio:
Myra Paci '83 has written and directed a wide range of film and video work, including the 35mm feature Searching for Paradise, starring Chris Noth, the 35mm short, Girls Night Out starring Rosario Dawson, and 16mm experimental pieces like her so-called lesbian necrophilic cult film Transeltown in which she starred. Independently, and with her production company, Casa Madre Films,
she has shot and directed short documentaries, public service
announcements, commercial spots, promotional trailers, marketing
videos, and video pieces for theatre. Myra also writes plays, fiction,
and non-fiction, some of which may be sampled at www.myrapaci.com/blog.
