Asia Argento has signed on as executive producer on Rosita Larocca’s directorial debut feature documentary Gia – The Shadow of Beauty , about late U.S. supermodel Gia Carangi (1960–1986). The doc, a U.S.-Italy co-production unveiled earlier this year, approaches her “not as a pop-cultural icon but as a young woman navigating desire, abandonment and visibility in 1980s New York.” With international financing still open, the project is being presented to potential partners at Cannes’ Marché du Film . “Rejecting the conventions of the celebrity biopic, the film is conceived as a subjective encounter rather than a linear reconstruction of Carangi’s life,” according to a description of the film whose logline is: “This is the story of a girl who only wanted to be seen.” “It reframes her meteoric rise and early death through the lens of an era – and an image-driven industry – ill-equipped to accommodate vulnerability, queerness and contradiction.” The creative team is not so much interested in nostalgia but feels…