About the Film
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.
Virtual Q&A’s
Hear about the making of Cashing Out from director Matt Nadel, in conversation with:
Academy Award® Winner Molly O’Brien (The Only Girl in the Orchestra)
Academy Award® Nominee S. Leo Chiang (Island In Between)
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.
