Juan Pablo Di Pace Sets Feature Directorial Debut ‘For Another Time’; Norman Lear & Brent Miller To Exec Produce

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Actor Juan Pablo Di Pace (The Mattachine Family, Fuller House) is gearing up to make his feature directorial debut with For Another Time, an LGBTQ+ romantic drama inspired by true events in his life, that will be exec produced by 99-year-old icon Norman Lear and his Act III Productions partner Brent Miller.For Another Time is a coming-of-age story that follows Matías, a queer filmmaker who gets an unexpected invitation to revisit the family that forever influenced his past, forcing him to question the present while potentially changing his future.Production on the film set in Duino, Italy and Buenos Aires, Argentina will kick off on February 26.

Di Pace will play the present-day version of Matías, with another as-yet-undisclosed actor to play a younger version. Casting for additional roles is underway.

Andres Pepe Estrada will co-direct the film and serve as its editor.Di Pace is producing under his Momento Films banner with Kristen Carroll, founder and CEO of SpoPro/Spotlight Productions and Immaterial Media; Guillermo Escalona; and Margret Hiddleston and Stephanie Slack from Off Camera Entertainment.

In addition to Lear and Miller, executive producers will include Terroir Films CEO Massimiliano Milic and Kent Gibbons.For Lear and Miller, the project comes on the heels of successful releases for the films Te Llevo Conmigo (I Carry You With Me) and Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided to Go For it.“There’s a sacred tenderness in falling in love for the first time, often an all-encompassing event we can never reprise once it ends,” said Di Pace. “I wanted to explore the idea of memory and how we romanticize it, sometimes blinding our path to love in the present.”“There’s no better backdrop for a love story—of any