Monster Slayer Screening & Panel with Monty, the artist, and Catie, the director
About the Event
We successfully executed a screening of Monster Slayer, the powerful animated short documentary that premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Festival, followed by a live conversation with the film's subject and creative team.
Monster Slayer tells the story of Stephanie "Monty" Montgomery's journey in the aftermath of trauma, assault, and stigma, told through her own gripping words and the animation of her visceral artwork and journal entries. In June 2018, Monty was raped at the Los Angeles strip club where she worked. When management and police failed to act, Monty channeled her rage into art: she rented a billboard overlooking the site of her assault, depicting herself as "Monty the Monster Slayer", a hero slaying the monster who hurt her, and calling out the systems that failed her.
Rarely has an animated documentary been created by its own subject. That firsthand perspective gives Monster Slayer an unflinching intimacy, putting viewers directly inside what Monty saw, heard, and felt. The film also confronts a conversation too often left out of the #MeToo movement: the experiences of sex workers facing sexual assault, and the stigma that keeps their stories from being heard.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Catie Skipp, Monster Slayer is currently screening on the festival circuit following its Tribeca premiere.
Event details:
- Screening (24 min) followed by a 55 minute panel discussion — total runtime under 75 minutes
- Panelists: Stephanie "Monty" Montgomery (subject of the film), director Catie Skipp, and hosts NatsHoney and Princess Marx (YAS Work)
- Stream: is now available via YASStore.Shop
Impact Report
Impact Report
Monster Slayer
Screening & Panel Discussion
September 10, 2026 · Virtual Event
Attendance
Funds Raised
Pay-what-you-can pricing kept the event accessible while still generating direct support for the panel and future YAS Work programming.
Panelists
An Educational Conversation, Led by Sex Workers
Every question above came from the live chat — this wasn't a scripted panel, it was sex workers answering the questions their community actually asked.
From the community
"Monty's work helps to humanize sex work. I'm a testament to that. The picture that is painted of sex work to women who aren't in sex work is a huge problem, and breaking that picture is important."
— Event attendee
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What's next
This screening was an entry point into a much bigger conversation. Catie and Monty have discussed a collective art workshop as a next step, a space for survivors, artists, and non-artists alike to find their own version of justice through creative expression. Stay tuned to YAS Work for details.