Small in stature, but huge in charisma, Paul Williams is the enormously prolific songwriter behind such 1970s super-hits as "Rainy Days and Mondays" for the Carpenters, "An Old Fashioned Love Song" for Three Dog Night, and "The Rainbow Connection" for Jim Henson's The Muppet Movie. Also an actor, he became a frequent television personality and movie star, playing the villain in Brian DePalma's Phantom of The Paradise. But as the decade began to fade, so did Williams' career, with an ego-fueled drug addiction pushing his considerable talents to the side. Thirty years later, filmmaker Stephen Kessler found himself wondering what happened to his childhood idol, and discovered…Paul Williams is very much alive.  - SIFF