Genre: Documentary
Plot: Reel Paradise tells the story of John Pierson's family at the end of a year-long adventure on a remote island in Fiji where they ran the 180 Meridian Cinema, showing free movies to the locals.John Pierson is a noted indie film maven, author of the widely celebrated book, Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes, who together with his wife Janet created the IFC cable show Split Screen. On one story for the show, John and family went to Fiji in search of the "world's most remote movie theater." John fell in love with the 180 Meridian Cinema when he saw the wild enthusiasm of the audience to a showing of the Three Stooges' Some More of Samoa - a short they had been showing at the theater since it opened in 1954. "I'd never remotely heard anything like that," John says in Reel Paradise. "This is somehow what I missed back when movies meant everything to people." John decided he wanted to move with his family to Fiji and observe what movies meant to this country on the other side of the world. He also saw this adventure as an opportunity to plunge his two kids, Georgia (16) and Wyatt (13), into a culture and lifestyle far different from that of their home outside New York City. Filmed during the last month of the family's yearlong stay in Fiji, Reel Paradise aims to reveal something of
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Norman Arnold
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