The Making of Monsters is a 1991 Canadian short film, directed by John Greyson.
[1] Made while Greyson was a student at the Canadian Film Centre,[1] the film's premise is that playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht is alive and living in Toronto, and actively interfering with the production of "Monsters", a heavily sanitized movie of the week about the 1985 death of Kenneth Zeller in a gaybashing attack.
[8] Warner-Chappell had originally approved the use, but changed their mind after learning that the film contained gay content;[8] even after Weill's songs passed into the public domain in 2001, Warner-Chappell continued to use legal threats to block public screenings of the film, even preventing it from being included in the 2012 Greyson retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
[8] The issue also influenced the copyright-related themes of Greyson's later feature film Uncut.
[9] At Berlin, the film won a Jury Prize from the Teddy Award program.