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In the early days of the AIDS crisis, thousands of queer people — abandoned by their families, ignored by institutions — turned to one of the few options they had left to preserve their dignity: selling their life insurance policies to investors for quick cash.
From The New Yorker, Academy Award® nominated executive producer Julie Cohen, and executive producers Matt Bomer and Angeria Paris VanMicheals, Cashing Out is a powerful documentary short exploring a high-stakes market built on queer death — and one filmmaker’s unexpected connection to it.
About the Film
Hear about the making of Cashing Out from director Matt Nadel, in conversation with:
Academy Award® Winner Caroline Waterlow (O.J.: Made in America), with Academy Award® nominated executive producer Julie Cohen (RBG)
Academy Award® Winner Ben Proudfoot (The Last Repair Shop, The Queen of Basketball)
Academy Award® Winner Molly O’Brien (The Only Girl in the Orchestra)
Academy Award® Nominee David France (How To Survive A Plague)
Academy Award® Nominee Waad Al-Kateab (For Sama)
Academy Award® Nominee S. Leo Chiang (Island In Between)
Emmy® Winner Matt Wolf (Pee-wee As Himself)
Emmy® Winner Ryan Harrington (The Cave)
Academy Award® Shortlisted filmmaker Roberta Grossman (Seeing Allred)
Pulitzer Prize Winner Hilton Als (staff writer, The New Yorker)
Pulitzer Prize Winner Sarah Stillman (staff writer, The New Yorker)
Recorded Q&A’s
Host a Screening
Reach out to host a screening, and to exhibit a panel from the AIDS Memorial Quilt — a living memorial to those we’ve lost to the epidemic.
