In December, the film was named as an honorable mention on indieWIRE's annual list of favorite films without U.S. theatrical distribution. The movie came together after writer Glenn O'Brien and the producers secured the lost film footage from Italian financiers, determined to create an alternate portrait of Basquiat following Julian Schnabel 's film version. Zeitgeist saw the film in Cannes and later made a deal to release the movie. It will hit theaters in July, Zeitgeist Co-President Nancy Gerstman told indieWIRE yesterday. Alexa L. Fogel and Joseph Infantolino of Beech Hill Films are co-producing along with Shoemaker and Derrick Tseng of Centre Street .
Shooting is scheduled for approximately five weeks.
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