‘Last Call’ director Anthony Caronna, with author Elon Green, tell a story about anti-gay violence in early ’90s New York and about the much broader connections between anti-queer political rhetoric and the surges of violence that follow.
"Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York" (TV-MA, four 50-minute episodes, Max) This is a detailed, intensely human four-part docuseries based on the award-winning 2021 investigative book "Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York" by Elon Green, set in the early 1990s as the AIDS crisis worsens, when a serial killer preys upon gay men in New York; the victims lives are a primary focus. With Matt Foreman, Bea Hanson and David Wertheimer of the NYC Anti-Violence Project; directed by Anthony Caronna.
While corporate consolidation has led to smaller documentary production budgets and fewer indie doc sales, the demand for true-crime docus has skyrocketed over the last few years. That’s good news for documentary production companies like Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus’ Story Syndicate. This year, Garbus, Cogan and Story Syndicate’s head of documentary and nonfiction, Jon […]