For Duncan Montgomery and Alex Orlovsky, this year’s Gotham Awards highlight the success of a push they made to turn their company High Frequency from the producer of a handful of arthouse titles into a full-blown film financier. It’s a shift that began in 2021, and one that has paid off this year with “ Lurker ” and “Sorry, Baby,” two films that the company backed and that will compete for best feature.

“They’re very different movies, but they both have distinct points of view,” says Orlovsky. “Nothing can be middle of the road right now.”

Indeed, “Lurker,” a psychological thriller about an obsessed fan who worms his way into a musician’s inner circle, and “Sorry, Baby,” a darkly comic drama about a woman recovering from a sexual assault, were both provocative and utterly unique. Th

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