Searching for Paradise -- Narrative Feature
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Gilda Mattei, just graduating from highschool, 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 hoped for and nothing of the kind – just like her father.
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Susan May Pratt: Gilda Mattei Chris Noth: Michael De Santis Jeremy Davies: Adam John Pierson : Jim Johnson Michele Placido: Giorgio Matte Laila Robins: Barbara Mattei Josef Sommer: Carl Greenslate Mary Louise Wilson: Evelyn Greenslate
Produced by Ruth Charny: producer Janet Grillo: producer Myra Paci: writer / director Jonathan Shoemaker: co-producer
Original Music by Carter Burwell
Cinematography by Teodoro Maniaci
Film Editing by Robin Lee Beatrice Sisul
Casting by Karen Meisels
Production Design by Dina Goldman
Art Direction by David Schlesinger
Costume Design by Sarah J. Holden
Makeup Department Susan Reilly LeHane: key makeup artist Sanna Riley: assistant makeup artist
Production Management Sophia Lin: production manager Derek Yip: production manager: additional photography
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Michael Lerman: first assistant director
Art Department Charlotte Newman: set dresser
Sound Department Michael Axinn: supervising sound editor Dan Ferat: production sound mixer Fredrick Helm: ADR recordist Bruce Lacey: dialogue editor Kent Sparling: sound re-recording mixer Doug Winningham: assistant sound effects editor