Cineflix Productions sets up development deal with doc filmmaker Nancy Buirski

New York- and Toronto-based Cineflix Productions has signed a development deal with US documentary filmmaker and producer Nancy Buirski (The Loving Story, The Rape of Recy Taylor).

Nancy Buirski
(photo: Jade Albert)

Cineflix Productions will finance the development of original content and provide production support to other future projects from Buirski.

The deal comes after Cineflix and Buirski teamed up on the feature documentary Desperate Souls, Dark City & the Legend of Midnight Cowboy, which made its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival last week.

The doc, which examines the making and legacy of the 1969 feature film Midnight Cowboy, was also screened at Telluride Film Festival and will next head to the Hamptons International Film Festival in October.

Directed and produced by Buirski, the documentary is produced by Simon Kilmurry and Susan Margolin in association with Cineflix Productions, which sits under Montreal-headquartered parent company Cineflix Media.

Cineflix Productions’ president and head of content JC Mills and Cineflix Media’s co-founder and CEO Glen Salzman are executive producers.

The development deal was negotiated by Mills for Cineflix and Buirski’s longtime producing partner Susan Margolin for Augusta Films.

Buirski’s other credits include A Crime on the Bayou, Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq and By Sidney Lumet.