M4M: Seeks Love

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Bob Metcalf wants to find a boyfriend, but at 70 years old he’s finding that’s easier said than done. Computer illiterate and over 150 miles from the nearest gay bar, Bob puts his hopes into an online personals ad, seeking love.

Told through a combination of documentary footage and still life images, director Barton Girdwood’s documentary short is a haunting exploration of isolation and dating in late life.

YEAR

2014

RUN TIME

4m

DIRECTOR

Barton Girdwood

MIX NYC, New York, New York, November 2014
Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, Illinois, February 2015
CineKink, New York, New York, March 2015
RiverRun Film Festival, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, April 2015
Shout! (Sidewalk Film Festival), Birmingham, Alabama, August 2015
AGLIFF (Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival), Austin, Texas, October
2015
New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2015

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