In 1984, Columbia Pictures purchased the treatment from Cataldi and in 1985 she was associate producer[3] for the Oscar-winning film Out of Africa, directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.

Annan presented the newly appointed Messengers of Peace by saying, "they are individuals who possess widely recognized talents in the field of arts, literature, music and sports, who have agreed to help focus worldwide attention on the work of the United Nations".

[5] To raise awareness on the plight of tuberculosis, Cataldi travelled to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Angola, Zambia, South Africa, Algeria, Morocco and Jordan during her time as ambassador.

She in fact travelled to Tunisia in 2015 to report on the political situation for the Italian magazine F. There, she interviewed several prominent women, some of whom were part of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, which later won the Nobel Peace Prize.

For more than ten years Cataldi was involved in promoting the project and she was still a member of the board of directors,[6] which is "dedicated to raising public awareness of the laws of war and their application to situations of armed conflict".