Cashing Out

40m
Documentary
7

At the height of the AIDS crisis, many gay men sold their life insurance policies to investors for quick cash. This documentary charts the rise and fall of the hundred-million-dollar “gay-death-profiteering” industry that grew out of their desperation, and spotlights one of its earliest investors: the filmmaker’s father.

Cast

Sean O. Strub
Self
Matt Nadel
Self

Crew

Matt Nadel
Director, Producer
Will Mayo
Editor
Brennan Goldstein
Director of Photography
Matt Bomer
Executive Producer
Julie Cohen
Executive Producer
Amy Batchelor
Executive Producer
Angeria Paris VanMicheals
Executive Producer
Brad Feld
Executive Producer
Luke Hodges
Producer
Tom Foskett-Barnes
Original Music Composer

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