View Trailer "Trailer" 7.6 MB
View Clip "Intense Girl" 2.8 MB
View Clip "Dream Sequence" 2.8 MB
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Susan May Pratt: Gilda Mattei
Chris Noth: Michael De Santis
Jeremy Davies: Adam
Myra Paci:writer / director
Q / Delta Dreams: 2 Ssongs licensed for film. Ibiza (Trance Mix), Mega Mix 2001
Searching for Paradise will be broadcast on the Sundance Channel and available for purchase or rental on DVD and VHS in stores and online starting September 23, 2003.Included are interviews with stars Chris Noth and Susan May Pratt, with writer/director Myra Paci, deleted scenes, a director's commentary, and scenes from the Sundance Institute Directing Lab where the film was workshopped.
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.