Paper Heart

(USA, 2008, 88 mins)

Executive Producers: Nicholas Jasenovec, Charlyne Yi
Producers: Sandra Murillo, Elise Salomon
Screenwriters: Nicholas Jasenovec, Charlyne Yi
Cinematographer: Jay Hunter
Editor: Ryan Brown
Cast: Charlyne Yi, Michael Cera, Jake Johnson
Music: Michael Cera, Charlyne Yi

• Trailer

Los Angeles-based comedian and performance artist Charlyne Yi brings her winning and quirky “woman on the street” approach to a subject that has plagued humans for centuries—the search for true love. In this lovingly crafted hybrid of road trip documentary and quasi-fictional romantic-comedy, our heroine and her friend and intrepid director Nicholas Jasenovec criss-cross the country interviewing experts and everyday folks about the meaning and nature of love.

Yi employs her disarming persona to draw vulnerability, insight, and humor from her subjects, who range from biologists to bikers, lifelong couples to lovesick singles. Yi’s quest is underscored by her own dawning romance with actor Michael Cera, which is amusingly staged-for and interrupted by Jasenovec’s all-seeing camera. The couple’s awkward courtship and a few lo-fi animated sequences of handmade paper puppets lend some gentle humor and a generous, expansive spirit to Paper Heart’s weighty investigation.

With special guest attendees Charlyne Yi and Jake Johnson

Host UCLA Extension Writers' Program/Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE)

Sponsored By:

RockSugar PanAsian Kitchen

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