(January
30, 2002, Los Angeles, CA) On Valentine's Eve (Feb.13, 9:30 p.m. EST),
the Oxygen cable network will premiere the documentary film MAN HUNT, a raw,
unflinching, and often humorous look at a year in the lives of three real
women searching for Mr. Right.
"This is reality - without the 'show'," says producer Matt Rader.
"While The Bachelorette picks and chooses from highly desirable
pre-screened men, the women in MAN HUNT (like most women in the real world)
are in the dating trenches with no makeovers, no fantasy settings, and no
staged dates." Rader stressed, "This is not glossy and
manufactured - these are very real women on very determined quests for
marriage - and what makes MAN HUNT so entertaining are the startlingly honest
highs-and-lows of the women's journeys."
The three women shown in MAN HUNT are 30 to 40 years old and live in varied
worlds; from urban to suburban, from desperately childless to having two kids
despite never marrying, from working in a bakery to being an accountant.
Despite the different lives they lead, these three women are unified by one
common factor: dogged by pressure from family, friends, society's
norms, and most of all themselves, these women want to be married more than
anything else.
The documentary, which won the Wisconsin International Film Festival in its
debut showing, was shot on a micro budget by first-time directors Melanie
Middien and Alia Yunis, both screenwriters.
"Struggling through the process of writing, we always talked about
working on an actual film together," says Yunis. "When we
weren't talking about that, we were gossiping about girlfriends and their
dating traumas. So we married the two ideas and came up with MAN
HUNT."
"Over the course of a year we got an intimate insight into the real life
of today's single woman" says Middien. "There are more than
48 million single American women between the ages of 22 and 55. In the
end I think our three subjects, via MAN HUNT, speak to those millions of
women - and in a truthful way that manufactured reality like The Bachelorette
just can't."
For more information, contact Matt Rader at the above.
