After its Sundance Film Festival premiere, Ira Sachs' latest film, Peter Hujar's Day, has landed at specialty distributors Sideshow and Janus Films for North America. Peter Hujar's Day, which is next set to screen at the Berlin Film Festival,

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired North American rights to Ira Sachs’ new movie Peter Hujar’s Day which made its world premiere in the Sundance Film Festival Premieres section. A fall theatrical release is planned.

From Ira Sachs — director of the striking contemporary queer drama Passages — the 1970s New York-set Peter Hujar's Day is a confined, two-character experiment that's far more about mood than plot. Set almost entirely in one apartment over the course of a single day,

W hile Sundance hasn’t had a plethora of the late night bidding wars we used to see in the good old days of the festival, the weirdness of the Los Angeles fires and the advent o

Below, I spoke to Sachs about his approach to adapting Rosenkrantz’s slim tome, what his film has to say about the artist’s life in the 1970s and now, and the classic independent short films that influenced the making of Peter Hujar’s Day.

It's based on a transcript of Hujar's's description of what he did on one day, which in the film becomes anything but ordinary.