Nancy Buirski’s look inside the making of an X-rated Best Picture winner has found a home. Kino Lorber in association with Zeitgeist Films have announced the acquisition of all North American distribution rights to “Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy.” Zeitgeist will open the film theatrically in North America beginning at New York’s Film Forum in late June before expanding nationwide, followed by a digital, educational, and home video release by Kino Lorber.

Released in 1969, “Midnight Cowboy” tells the story of a Texas dishwasher to moves to New York City seeking fortune and the man he befriends while living in an abandoned building.

Buirski’s doc,

Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin won an Oscar for their look inside Alex Honnold’s quest to climb the 3,000ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without a rope and took viewers behind the scenes of the world’s most famous cave dive in “The Rescue,” the story of how scuba divers helped rescue 12 boys and their coach from inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand. Their next project will see them going underwater again. They’re teaming up with BAFTA-nominated director Natalie Hewit (“Bring Back the Bush: Where Did All the Pubic Hair Go?”) to explore the search to find the lost ship of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Deadline

“Little Richard: I Am Everything” pays tribute to the OG rock ‘n roll icon. “He spit on every rule there was in music,” we’re told in a new trailer for the documentary from Lisa Cortés (“All In: The Fight for Democracy”). The Sundance title uncovers the Black queer origins of American pop music — and how it was whitewashed. The tribute to Little Richard, AKA Richard Penniman, features interviews with the late trailblazer’s family, other musicians, and Black and queer scholars.

“The legacy of Little Richard is complex,” an interviewee explains. While he was “very, very good at liberating other people — he was not good at liberating himself.” The

Anne Hathaway is showing off her pipes again. Deadline reports that the Oscar winner will play a fictional musician in “Mother Mary,” an “epic pop melodrama” that will see her joining forces with the history-making auteur behind “I May Destroy You,” Michaela Coel, who will play an “iconic fashion designer” in the pic.

A24 is behind the film, which is being written and directed by David Lowery (“The Green Knight”).

Hathaway took home an Oscar for her supporting role in “Les Misérables” and received a nom for “Rachel Getting Married.” She debuted her latest film, “Eileen,” an adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel of the same name, at Sundance in January.

Eva Longoria’s narrative feature debut set SXSW ablaze. The fest has announced its Audience Award winners, and “Flamin’ Hot” took home the honor in the Headliners slate. The film tells the story of Richard Montañez, a Frito Lay janitor who “channeled his Mexican American heritage and upbringing to turn Flamin’ Hot Cheetos into a snack that disrupted the food industry and became a global phenomenon,” per the film’s SXSW synopsis. (The accuracy of Montañez’s story has been disputed.)

Launching June 9, “Flamin’ Hot” will be the first feature film to premiere simultaneously on Disney+ and Hulu. The film marks Longoria’s follow-up to 2022 Sundance doc “La Guerra Civil,” a look

Julia Louis-Dreyfus faces an unexpected crisis in a new trailer for “You Hurt My Feelings,” Nicole Holofcener’s latest. The “Veep” alumna plays Beth, a New York novelist who is prepping her latest book. Already struggling to deal with the fact that she’s an “old voice” among “lots of new voices,” Beth is devastated when she learns that her most supportive and beloved cheerleader, her husband (Tobias Menzies), isn’t such a big fan of her work after all. She overhears him revealing that he’s not actually fond of her latest work, which she has approved countless drafts of.

Feeling profoundly betrayed, Beth struggles to move on in the wake of the

Attention filmmakers: Chicken & Egg Pictures has launched a new Research & Development Grant to support up to 30 directors working on feature-length documentary films in critical R&D stages. Applications are now open.

The grants will offer support “for research or development of [selectees’] projects, in addition to opportunities for peer support, mentorship, and relationship-building within the documentary filmmaking community,” per a press release announcing the news. Filmmakers will receive a $10,000 USD grant for research or a $20,000 USD grant for development of a feature-length documentary project.

Projects must be directed or co-directed by an experienced woman or non-binary filmmaker who has directed at least two feature-length documentary films.

A female-led “spiritual successor” to “Peaky Blinders” is in the works at BBC One. Deadline reports that “Dope Girls” will delve “into the history of Soho’s criminal underworld.”

Set in the early 20th century, the six-part series is reportedly partly based on “the true story of conservative, god-fearing 42-year old single mother Kate Meyrick, who builds a nightclub empire and criminal family enterprise and becomes the most dangerous woman in London as well as a competitor to Brilliant Chang, the baron of Soho’s gritty underworld. Her nightclubs are fuelled by drugs and alcohol that allow for a generation of World War I veterans and survivors to forget their trauma and

Film and television sets have transformed in the wake of #MeToo, and Intimacy Coordinators have helped lead that charge by choreographing sex scenes, opening up communication between actors and directors, and educating about consent and boundaries — and ensuring that they are respected. Intimacy Coordinators have become a fixture in Hollywood, and demand has increased. Ita O’Brien, a trailblazer in the field whose credits include “I May Destroy You,” “Sex Education,” and “Normal People,” has founded “what is being called the ‘world’s first degree in intimacy practice,’” per Deadline. “O’Brien’s Intimacy on Set outfit has joined with the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts on the two-year course, which will

The recipients for the The Future of Film is Female (FOFIF) Short Film Fund Fall 2022 Grant cycle have been announced. FOFIF’s website details, “Two filmmakers will receive $1000 financial grants: Nicole Otero for production on her short film ‘Wait for Night’ and Abby Harri for post-production on her short ‘Side Hustle.’ Jalena Keane-Lee receives post-production sound services from Heard City (valued at $16,000) for ‘Barrio Chino Havana.’ Francesca Mirabella receives color correction services from Nice Shoes for ‘Bomb’ while Ivete Lucas also receives color correction services from Irving Harvey for ‘The Passing’ (each valued at $20,000).”

“I’m tremendously proud to welcome these five filmmakers into The FOFIF family. I’ve