Here’s the official logline: “1969. John Schlesinger, Waldo Salt and Jerome Hellman created a classic and changed the course of movie making. The studio system was sinking under its own weight; independent filmmaking was waiting in the wings for a chance to break through, although not necessarily with a movie that dealt with prostitution, sordid crime and had a homosexual subtext. But emerging out of the protests of the ‘60s and the tragic murders of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
The untitled project will be written, directed and produced by Buirski for Augusta Films, with Simon Kilmurry, Susan Margolin and Claire L. Chandler. Frankel won a Pulitzer Prize for his international reporting for his work for The Washington Post. He is the author of several books, including “The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend” and “High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic.”
Buirski’s credits also include “By Sidney Lumet” and the upcoming “A Crime on the Bayou.” Prior to making her own films, Buirski founded and ran the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival from 1997 to 2008. “Over the past decade, Nancy Buirski has created a body of work of thoughtful, artful and socially conscious documentary films that range from the arts and popular culture to stories of ordinary people caught up in the struggle for racial justice,” Frankel said. “It’s an honor to collaborate with someone of her caliber and conscience to create a documentary about the world of ‘Midnight Cowboy,’ one of the most transformative and ground-breaking movies of the modern era.
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