Trailer for the documentary Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine.
On October 7, 1998, Wyoming University student Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten, tortured, tied to a fence and left to die because he was gay. Fifteen years later, Michele Josue’s riveting and insightful documentary revisits the shocking and horrifying case with never-before-seen photos, rare video footage and brand new interviews, as Shepard’s all-too-brief life is celebrated and remembered through the vivid emotional testimonies of those who knew him best—including friends, mentors, teachers and family. Meanwhile, new revelations emerge in one of the most notorious hate crimes in US history, leading to a searing, poignant and multilayered biographical and sociological portrait. In the end, the notion of forgiveness.