For Your Consideration
Best Documentary Short Film

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on the Academy Screening Room

About the Film

At the height of the AIDS crisis, thousands of queer people — abandoned by their families, ignored by institutions — sold their life insurance policies to investors for quick cash. CASHING OUT explores this billion-dollar "AIDS profiteering" industry, and one filmmaker's unexpected connection to it.


Director: Matt Nadel
Producers: Luke Hodges and Matt Nadel
Executive Producers: Julie Cohen, Matt Bomer, and Angeria Paris VanMicheals

Virtual Q&A’s

Hear about the making of Cashing Out from director Matt Nadel, in conversation with:

  • Molly O’Brien (The Only Girl in the Orchestra)

  • S. Leo Chiang (Island In Between)