DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY and the LEGEND of MIDNIGHT COWBOY

Director: Nancy Buirski

Executive Producers: James Costa, Geralyn White Dreyfus, J.C. Mills, Glen Salzman, Regina K. Scully, Nathalie Seaver, Mark Trustin, Jamie Wolf

Producers: Nancy Buirski, Simon Kilmurry, Susan Margolin

Co-Producer: Claire L. Chandler

Theatrical Premiere: June 23, 2023

Film Forum (NY)

Laemmle Theaters (LA)

Festival Premiere: 2022

Venice International Film Festival, Telluride International Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival, Hamptons DocFest,
Palm Springs International Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Provincetown International Film Festival

Distribution: Zeitgeist Films

This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a dark and difficult masterpiece and the deeply gifted and flawed people who made it. It is about New York in a troubled era of cultural ferment and social change.

A half century after its release, Midnight Cowboy remains one of the most original and groundbreaking movies of the modern era. Set in a New York besieged by economic collapse, social unrest, and cultural ferment, the movie tells the story of two homeless loners who join forces out of desperation and struggle to survive.