Director's Statement

Let’s face it. I was the least likely candidate to make a film about men. Several years ago, I finished a film about sex slavery. It took seven years to report. Another two full years on the road after we finished it. At every screening, the same question: “After all that you’ve seen, you must really hate men.” I would joke: “Actually, my next documentary will be about men loving women.”

"Correspondent Confidential" is a Vice series produced by Carrie Ching and illustrated by Marina Luz. Mimi Chakarova's undercover story launched the series in 2013.  

I decided to turn “The Price of Sex” on its head. Over the next three years, I worked on this new project... drove across the United States, asking all types of men one question: “What is love?” I listened to their love stories – what they loved, how they lost love and why... And I thought that maybe through them, I would find it again – the beauty and reason for it all.

My hope was that their love stories would restore my faith in love. And in men.

So did they?

Take this journey with me and find out.