‘Midnight at the Paradise’ is a Love Letter to Film, Music, and the City of Toronto
'Midnight at the Paradise' premieres tomorrow at Toronto's Paradise Theatre! I had the pleasure to sit down with Vanessa Matsui to discuss the making of this film.

Christmas 1963, cemetery of Fortogna, fraction of Longarone, where the victims of the Vajont disaster are buried (9 October 1963). The survivors spent Christmas here, watching over their dead and praying for them: the Christmas tree was brought to the graves. A certainty emerges from the interviews: what matters are the people, not the money.
'Midnight at the Paradise' premieres tomorrow at Toronto's Paradise Theatre! I had the pleasure to sit down with Vanessa Matsui to discuss the making of this film.
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