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Filmmaker who helped crack gay porn actor's gruesome Hollywood killing wins SXSW premiere
- Mason’s documentary 'My Brother’s Killer' will world premiere at SXSW, spotlighting a decades-old Hollywood murder case.
- The film follows amateur sleuths who helped investigators crack the case tied to Bill Newton, a gay porn actor killed in 1990.
- Madden, a former gay porn actor, describes the night of the killing and a subsequent confession that shaped the investigation.
- Prosecutors declined to bring charges against Madden, citing lack of evidence beyond the confession.
- Newton’s murder, once an urban legend, is now explored through interviews with family, sleuths and detectives in the film.
- The documentary uses a rare trove of VHS and personal footage to reveal overlaps between Newton’s life and the suspects.
- Clark Williams is highlighted as a key sleuth whose work helped bring new attention to the case.
- The film positions LGBTQ+ rights discussions against a backdrop of the AIDS era and West Hollywood culture.
- The film features on-camera interviews with the confessed killer, DarraLynn Madden.
- Mason’s prior work, including 'Circus of Books,' anchors the film in West Hollywood’s history and community memory.
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