Gone Girls, Part One + Lost Girls
The new series Into the Light: Gone Girls, Lost Girls and Other Films by Liz Garbus kicks off on Friday, March 28th with a special double feature screening of Gone Girls Part One and the narrative feature Lost Girls starring Academy Award® nominee Amy Ryan; director Liz Garbus will join us for a Q&A between shows, moderated by Aminatou Sow.
GONE GIRLS (2025)
Young women who worked in the sex industry were disappearing from New York City and Long Island and their families were desperate for answers. Then in 2010, female remains were found in the Gilgo Beach area of Long Island, leading to a string of additional discoveries at a virtual dumping ground steps away from New York’s busiest beaches. Despite all of this, the case of the “Long Island serial killer” remained unsolved for 13 years — until July 2023, when a major break came after corruption was rooted out within the police responsible for the case. From two-time Academy Award®-nominated and Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus (Lost Girls) comes the definitive look at the twists and turns in a case that dominated headlines, and is still developing in real time. (DCP, Part One: 49 min.)
Conversation will occur between screenings. Lost Girls will start at approx. 8:30 PM.
LOST GIRLS (2020)
When 24-year-old Shannan Gilbert mysteriously disappears one night, her mother Mari (Academy Award® nominee Amy Ryan) embarks on a dark journey that finds her face to face with hard truths about her daughter, herself, and police bias. Determined to find her daughter at all costs, Mari Gilbert retraces Shannan’s last known steps, driving her own investigation to an insular gated community near the desolate outer banks of Long Island. Her discoveries force law enforcement and the media to uncover more than a dozen unsolved murders of sex workers, young lives Mari will not let the world forget. Inspired by Robert Kolker’s best-selling nonfiction book of the same name and produced by Archer Gray’s Anne Carey (Can You Ever Forgive Me?; 20th Century Women), Lost Girls is directed by two-time Academy Award® nominee Liz Garbus (The Fourth Estate; What Happened, Miss Simone?). Thomasin McKenzie, Gabriel Byrne and Lola Kirke co-star. (DCP, 95 minutes; Lost Girls features audio description and closed captioning via accessibility device.)
The new series Into the Light: Gone Girls, Lost Girls and Other Films by Liz Garbus kicks off on Friday, March 28th with a special double feature screening of Gone Girls Part One and the narrative feature Lost Girls starring Academy Award® nominee Amy Ryan; director Liz Garbus will join us for a Q&A between shows, moderated by Aminatou Sow.
GONE GIRLS (2025)
Young women who worked in the sex industry were disappearing from New York City and Long Island and their families were desperate for answers. Then in 2010, female remains were found in the Gilgo Beach area of Long Island, leading to a string of additional discoveries at a virtual dumping ground steps away from New York’s busiest beaches. Despite all of this, the case of the “Long Island serial killer” remained unsolved for 13 years — until July 2023, when a major break came after corruption was rooted out within the police responsible for the case. From two-time Academy Award®-nominated and Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus (Lost Girls) comes the definitive look at the twists and turns in a case that dominated headlines, and is still developing in real time. (DCP, Part One: 49 min.)
Conversation will occur between screenings. Lost Girls will start at approx. 8:30 PM.
LOST GIRLS (2020)
When 24-year-old Shannan Gilbert mysteriously disappears one night, her mother Mari (Academy Award® nominee Amy Ryan) embarks on a dark journey that finds her face to face with hard truths about her daughter, herself, and police bias. Determined to find her daughter at all costs, Mari Gilbert retraces Shannan’s last known steps, driving her own investigation to an insular gated community near the desolate outer banks of Long Island. Her discoveries force law enforcement and the media to uncover more than a dozen unsolved murders of sex workers, young lives Mari will not let the world forget. Inspired by Robert Kolker’s best-selling nonfiction book of the same name and produced by Archer Gray’s Anne Carey (Can You Ever Forgive Me?; 20th Century Women), Lost Girls is directed by two-time Academy Award® nominee Liz Garbus (The Fourth Estate; What Happened, Miss Simone?). Thomasin McKenzie, Gabriel Byrne and Lola Kirke co-star. (DCP, 95 minutes; Lost Girls features audio description and closed captioning via accessibility device.)
