Myra Paci

Myra Paci grew up in Rome, Italy and Boston, MA. She graduated with a B.A. in History from Yale University and received an M.F.A. in Film/Television Production from N.Y.U. Tisch School of the Arts. Her short films Butch Patrol and Transeltown played widely on the Lesbian/Gay International Film Festival circuit. Her N.Y.U. Thesis film, XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint, landed her a job at New York City advertising agency, Weiss Whitten Stagliano, where she shot and directed spots, a cable show, and marketing videos for such clients as Atlantic Records, Aer Lingus, and Cole Haan. Her feature screenplay, Searching for Paradise, was awarded the Sundance Institute's Screenwriting and Directing Fellowships. She went on to direct the film which starred Chris Noth, Susan May Pratt, Jeremy Davies, Michele Placido, Laila Robins, Mary Louise Wilson, Josef Sommer, and John Pierson, with cinematography by Teodoro Maniaci, score by Carter Burwell, and production by Ruth Charny, Janet Grillo, and Jonathan Shoemaker. In 2000, she moved with her husband and children to Berkeley, CA and started video production company, Casa Madre Films, with Liz McBee and later started SLAP Agency, a marketing and video production company, with Michael Furlong.