First Run Features
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| Industry | Film distribution |
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| Founded | 1979 |
| Headquarters | New York, NY, USA |
| Products | Films, VOD, DVDs, Blu-rays |
| Website | http://www.firstrunfeatures.com |
First Run Features is an independent film distribution company based in New York City.[1] First Run was founded in 1979 by a group of filmmakers in order to advance the distribution of independent film and is one of America's largest independent distributors of documentaries and art films. releasing 12 to 15 films a year in theaters nationwide and 40 to 60 titles on DVD and VOD annually. First Run distributes a large number of documentaries in addition to foreign films, including many films about LGBT issues, Jewish experience, and political and human rights issues.
First Run is the American distributor for Michael Apted's Up Series, Ross McElwee's Sherman's March, Oscar-nominated The Most Dangerous Man in America, Maidentrip, Girl Model, Eames: The Architect and the Painter, For the Bible Tells Me So, A Jihad for Love, God Loves Uganda , D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus's Kings of Pastry, Joe Berlinger's Crude, Alex Gibney and Eugene Jarecki's The Trials of Henry Kissinger, Alice, Save Me, Anita: Speaking Truth to Power and Moving Midway, among many others. Many of the films First Run Features has distributed have been endorsed by Human Rights Watch. First Run works in collaboration with HRW to bring films dealing with human rights issues to a wider audience.
Notable films
| Year | Title |
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| 2015 | Welcome to Leith[2] |
| 2015 | Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art[3] |
| 2015 | The Looking Glass[4] |
| 2012 | Pink Ribbons, Inc.[5] |
| 2011 | The Man Nobody Knew[6] |
| 2010 | The Most Dangerous Man in America |
| 2009 | Crude |
| 2009 | Ballerina |
| 2009 | Altiplano |
| 2009 | A Wink and a Smile |
| 2008 | Moving Midway |
| 2008 | A Jihad for Love |
| 2008 | Constantine's Sword |
| 2008 | Praying with Lior |
| 2007 | For the Bible Tells Me So |
| 2007 | Save Me |
| 2007 | The Power of Forgiveness |
| 2007 | Please Vote for Me |
| 2007 | Breaking the Maya Code |
| 2004 | Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train |
| 2003 | Bonhoeffer |
| 2002 | The Butterfly |
| 2001 | The Fluffer |
| 1999 | Gendernauts |
| 1999 | After Stonewall |
| 1995 | Whitewash |
| 1993 | Speak Up! It's So Dark |
| 1992 | Utz |
| 1991 | The Architecture of Doom |
| 1984 | Before Stonewall |
| 1975 | A Boy and his Dog |
References
- ↑ Kelly Anderson, Distributor profile: First Run Features, Real Screen, July 29, 2010
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Sources
- First Run Features website
- First Run Features at the Internet Movie Database
- First Run Features box office
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