Paul’s former CBS Sports colleague, director Joe Loverro followed his friend Anthony Bettencourt far and wide for a year to capture the journey of Anthony finally coming out as Michele to her international corporate cohorts: 

“When Joe dropped the hard drive on my lap, which contained a year’s worth of footage from all over the world, he really had only a vague idea of what was there. He wanted to make Anthony/Michele happy and figured we had enough material for a decent short. Fine with me - I was just a gun for hire. 

But as I got deeper into the material during the edit, I decided this might be more than a vanity project. Maybe there was potential for a fascinating feature. I used scenes like the one shown here to convince Joe. 

He and his DP, Anthony Seratelli, assumed that a large portion of the material they captured was a waste of time. Like this shoot following Anthony around a Singapore shopping mall. But when I got my hands on it, I saw a gem that just needed a little cut and polish with some clever editing. 

A few surprises like this and Joe soon jumped on board my feature-length plan for the film.”