Video Shoot Helps Filmmaker Find Love

As many of our regular readers know, Alex, Andrew and I were asked by a producer at Current.tv, to head back down to Buenos Aires to shoot more short documentaries. We were on our way north to Bolivia but did a 180 degree turn and returned to the city of 14 million for one more week of shooting. One of the three films we shot was on Buenos Aires fashion, a piece Andrew Burke not only produced but also acted as the on air personality, along with our new friend from England, Sarah Holmes, and our BA friend Nico "The Don" Gagliardi.

Here was the premise: Andrew had been in Buenos Aires for one month (okay, it was really two but TV is never about reality, even documentaries) and was not having any luck with the local ladies. His new Spanish speaking friend from England, Sarah, and his local friend "Don" Nico came to the rescue. Don Nico brought him to get a Porteño (people from the port city, or Buenos Aires) haircut while Sarah was lending female sensibility and style. The three then went to the fashion district of Palermo to buy some clothes. Along the way, they asked local Portaños what they thought about Andrew's fashion. At first he was scoring a 5 out of 10 with his shaggy hair, stretched out white t-shirt, dirty jeans and hiking boots. With each improvement - a haircut, a new shirt, a new necklace, etc. - his rating went up; and so did the chance of the women we asked of going on a date with him. Finally, the manager of a clothing store (pictured below), gave Andrew a 9 out of 10 and accepted a date - that very night!


This all really happened. None of it was staged. His rating really went up and this attractive designer and store manager really accepted to go out to dinner with Andrew that night (we all went with them though).


Actually, Augustina got us all gifts (but Andrew got two).