Documentary Short | 2025
Cashing Out
The New Yorker
Producer | Doc Short for The New Yorker
How much is your life worth in cold, hard cash?
Coming to The New Yorker in 2025
In the early 1990s, at the height of the AIDS crisis, thousands in the queer community — abandoned by families, ignored by institutions — turned to one of the few options they had left to avoid destitution: selling their life insurance policies for cash.
Featuring the voices of settlement brokers, policy sellers, and investors, CASHING OUT is a powerful documentary short exploring a high-stakes market built on queer death — and one filmmaker’s unexpected connection to it.