Oscilloscope bags North American rights of Burroughs

MUMBAI: Oscilloscope Laboratories has lapped up the North American rights of Yony Leyse‘s documentary William S. Burroughs: A Man Within. The film will now be released theatrically in the fall and also broadcast as part of PBS‘ “Independent Lens” series.

The documentary, narrated by Peter Weller features new archival footage of the beat writer, as well as interviews with colleagues and confidants including John Waters, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Gus Van Sant, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Sonic Youth, Laurie Anderson, Amiri Baraka, Jello Biafra, and David Cronenberg.

Josh Braun and Jason Janego of Submarine negotiated the deals with Fenkel on behalf of Oscilloscope while Lois Vossen did so on the behalf of Independent Lens.