Exclusive: Lilly Wachowski has joined the untitled Chicago-based queer documentary as executive producer under her Anarchists United Studios banner.

The documentary, which is in production and seeking donations and private investment, comes from directors Shelley Gustavson and Curtis Matzke and highlights Leslie Anderson, a conservator who studies a generation of Leathermen and Leatherwomen lost to AIDS. Deep within the basement of Chicago’s Leather Archives & Museum, Leslie works to preserve the items of queer elders left behind, as well as the memories of their community, while simultaneously going on a journey of self-discovery and reconnecting with people from their own life before it is too late.

Anarchists United Studios, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Anarchists United Foundation, develops and produces film, TV shows and other media. Its core focus is on genre movies with budgets under $10 million, but the studio also will incubate bigger films, long form series, microbudget...