Mineshaft: the Cruising Murders
Jeffrey Schwarz
Documentary : 84’ / Cruising, Gay, Homophobia, Art & Artists

In 1979, director William Friedkin began filming “Cruising” on the streets of New York's West Village. The film starred Al Pacino as a cop going undercover to catch a serial killer targeting gay men in leather bars. When the shooting script was leaked to Village Voice reporter Arthur Bell, he was horrified, fearing the film would portray gay men as dangerous and pathological. Bell encouraged his readers to protest the film. But behind this controversy was a series of real murders that inspired Friedkin's film, including the 1977 killing of Addison Verrill. Addison was drawn to the underground world of leather bars like the notorious Mineshaft, where one night he went home with someone and was murdered in his own bed. “Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders” explores how Hollywood fiction has overshadowed real tragedy, and unravels the mystery of who killed Addison Verrill.

 

/ EXHIBITION

Porto
November 05 | 17h00 | Batalha - Sala 2
QP - Panorama
www.thefilmcollaborative.org

/ Details

Year: 2026

Country: USA

Language: english

Subtitles: english

With: Dan Savage, Michael Musto, Randy Jurgensen, Don Scardino, Robert Geary, Pamela Verrill Walker, Andy Humm, Charles Kaiser, Dennis Dermody, Frank Henenlotter, James Polchin, Jim Hubbard, Matt Foreman, Richard Berkowitz, Richard Goldstein

/ Direction

Jeffrey Schwarz

USA


Jeffrey Schwarz is an Emmy Award-winning producer, director and editor based in Los Angeles. His previous documentaries include the Emmy Award-winning HBO Documentary Films Vito, I Am Divine, Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon, and the 2007 AFI Fest Documentary Audience Award winner Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story. He is also a producer of studio Blu-ray and DVD content, and original television programming through his company, Automat Pictures. He has produced content on major studio releases for directors such as Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Jonathan Demme, John Waters, among others.


2023 - Commitment to Life (Documentary)
2021 - Boulevard! A Hollywood Story (Documentary)
2017 - The Fabulous Allan Carr (Documentary)

2015 - Tab Hunter Confidential (Documentary)

2013 - I Am Divine (Documentary)

2011 - Vito (Documentary)

2008 - Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon (Documentary)

2007 - Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (Documentary)

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