EXCLUSIVE: Utopia (Mickey And The Bear, Shiva Baby) has acquired worldwide rights to Maria Finitzo’s feature documentary The Dilemma of Desire, which is billed as an exploration of “cliteracy” and the clash between gender politics and the imperatives of female sexual desire.The distributor has set an October release for North America exclusively on streaming platform Altavod, to be followed by a November 9 release across major VOD platforms.The pic premiered at SXSW and has since screened at DocNYC, AFI Docs and HotDocs.
It explores the work of four women – artist Sophia Wallace (the creator of “cliteracy”), Dr. Stacey Dutton (intent on pushing the publishing industry to stop leaving out vital parts of female anatomy in its textbooks), Dr.