Funny and moving, Shoot To Marry is an indie doc that delivers.

Filmmaker Steve Markle trains his camera on unique and interesting women with hopes of finding enlightenment and maybe even love. In New York, Steve films with Heidi, a brilliant hat-maker. In Toronto where Steve lives, he films with a dominatrix, a rabbi, a massage therapist turned pilot and other fascinating women.

Steve longs for the relationship he sees in his parents. They met on a blind date fifty years ago and have been blissfuly married ever since. Steve's attempts to find love with online dating and a personal matchmaker lead to dead ends. The best way to meet interesting women, Steve decides, is to make a documentary about them.

Shoot To Marry debuted at the 2020 Slamdance Film Festival where it created buzz and won a major award. It's no surprise that Markle won over audiences in Park City. He has a unique voice and with Shoot To Marry he delivers an indie doc that is raw, deeply personal and highly entertaining.

This dude is a genuine creep. He asks "interesting" women to be "interviewed" but really it's women he finds attractive that he's trying to date. He even finds his old crush from 3rd grade and interviews her, and you can just tell how weirded out she is.

I had mixed feelings about the ending, when he finally found someone. I was relieved that he probably wasn't going to turn into a rapist or something after all, but sad that his partner ended up with someone so awful. This movie is cringey and frankly uncomfortable to watch.

Steve Markle's new documentary Shoot To Marry is a winner. Markle, who chased stardom in his first doc Camp Hollywood, now chases another elusive dream: lasting love. Disillusioned after a failed marriage proposal, Markle grabs his camera and sets out to learn about relationships from female subjects. He's also hoping to find romance along the way.

Markle's journey takes him from L.A. to New York to Boston to Toronto filming with an impressive range of women from a firefighter to an escort turned spiritual healer. In his desperate attempt to find love, Markle is willing to put himself in uncomfortable situations. He films in a sex club and joins a women's workshop called Unleash Your Inner Geisha.

Along the way, Markle learns a thing or two and mends his broken heart. But the question remains: Will he find his soulmate? Then along comes Erin, a writer who's been dating men for the free dinners and writing about them in her blog. The two hit it off but Erin feels weird about their age gap - there's eighteen years between them.

This doc is special. Markle is openhearted and his offbeat film is uncannily relatable. Shoot To Marry is touching and honest and it's just about one of the funniest documentaries I've seen. Markle comes up against rejection in dating, but his doc is a winner.