When Capital University screenwriting and film instructor Matt Myers went to work on Friday, he bypassed the faculty offices in Huber-Spielman Hall and instead went to the Drexel East theater across the street.
No, it wasn’t a class trip. Myers attended a screening and discussed his latest film, “Then She Found Me.” Myers co-produced the film with its star, Helen Hunt, who also co-wrote and directed it. The movie, Hunt’s feature-film directorial debut, also stars Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler and Colin Firth.
As he recently told Columbus Dispatch reporter Frank Gabrenya, balancing a successful movie-making career (he regularly jets between coasts and continents) with his love of teaching and family (his wife, Jacqueline Bussie, is a professor in Capital’s religion and philosophy department) is a major production of its own.
But, if Myers’ life were a movie, the next good script would be the McGuffin. It's all about the script. It’s his motivation, his passion, and he’ll follow it anywhere.