Lost Girls (film)

Lost Girls
Official poster
Directed byLiz Garbus
Written byMichael Werwie
Based onLost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
by Robert Kolker
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyIgor Martinovic
Edited byCamilla Toniolo
Music byAnne Nikitin
Production
companies
  • Archer Gray
  • Langley Park Productions
Distributed byNetflix
Release dates
  • January 28, 2020 (2020-01-28) (Sundance)
  • March 13, 2020 (2020-03-13) (United States)
Running time
95 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Lost Girls is a 2020 American mystery drama film. Lost Girls was directed by Liz Garbus, from a screenplay by Michael Werwie, and based on the book Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker. The film revolves around the murders of young female sex workers on the South Shore barrier islands of Long Island, committed by the Long Island serial killer, who remains unknown, but for which a suspect was charged July 14, 2023.

Lost Girls stars Amy Ryan as the real life activist Mari Gilbert, along with Thomasin McKenzie, Lola Kirke, Oona Laurence, Dean Winters, Miriam Shor, Reed Birney, Kevin Corrigan, and Gabriel Byrne. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 28, 2020, and was later released on March 13, 2020, by Netflix.

  1. ^ "Lost Girls". Sundance Film Festival. Archived from the original on May 9, 2021. Retrieved December 14, 2019.