The Anarchists director Todd Schramke and his wife and executive producer Kim Kylland had been texting with one of Acapulco, Mexico’s most famous anarchist couples who went by the pseudonyms “John Galton” and “Lily Forester” the day that Galton, whose real name was Shane Cress, was murdered.
The murder, framed by the rise and fall of Acapulco’s anarchist community and the popular Anarchapulco conference, is at the heart of HBO and Blumhouse Television’s six-part docuseries The Anarchists, which premieres Sunday, July 10 on HBO.
The day that John Galton died in early February 2019 had been normal — well, as normal as a day can be when you’re living on a shoestring budget in one of the world’s most dangerous cities, while simultaneously being wanted in the U.S. for marijuana possession and living in constant fear of deportation — right up until Forester, whose real name is Miranda Webb, heard