Washington, April 27 -- Two-time Oscar winner Alexander Payne has found his next project and it will mark his documentary directorial debut, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Payne is now working on a documentary feature on the trailblazing cinema scholar Jeanine Basinger, which will be released in 2025.

The film will follow Basinger's journey from her days as a movie theatre usher in Brookings, South Dakota, to Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

Throughout her 60-year career, she founded one of the country's first and best film studies programmes; authored 13 highly influential film books, two of which were recently named to THR's list of the 100 greatest of all time; and shaped generations of people who, in turn, shaped every seg...