Pat Rocco Dared

Synopsis

This entertaining and enlightening documentary sheds a light on a pioneering moment in film history and the gay rights movement, as it revisits the break-through 1960s gay films of Pat Rocco. Rocco was responsible for the very first gay films that were shown openly to the paying public in the late 1960s. Situated before hardcore porn became the norm, and in marked contrast to the somewhat darker gay porn that was coming out of New York at the time. Pat Rocco’s film were more sun-dappled, featuring tanned and happy-looking naked men on sail boats and on beaches, celebrating their identities and the beauty of the male body. The filmmakers got to talk to the generous, rather humble and open-minded Rocco just before his death. It took a team of dedicated Canadian filmmakers to capture a fairly obscure moment of indie film history that deserves to be remembered.

Main Cast

Pat Rocco

Self (archive footage)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Charlie David

Self

Age : 44 | Popularity : 37%

Phyllis Diller

Self (archive footage)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 25%

Harvey Milk

Self (archive footage)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 4%

Spencer Reed

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 4%

Troy Perry

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Phillip Aubrey

Self

Age : 40 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Morris Chapdelaine Bob Christie
Writing	Writer	Bob Christie
Production	Executive Producer	Bob Christie Morris Chapdelaine Charlie David Jay Daniel Beechinor Lina Rasmussen
Camera	Director of Photography	Nickolaos Stagias
Editing	Editor	Nickolaos Stagias
Department	Role	Name

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