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{{Infobox company |
|name = First Run Features |
|logo = FRFlogoRev.jpg |
|type = |
|parent = |
|owner = |
|foundation = 1979 |
|founder = |
|dissolved = |
|___location = [[New York City|New York, NY]], USA |
|key_people = |
|num_employees = |
|industry = [[Film distribution]]|
|products = Films, [[Video on demand|VOD]], [[DVD]]s, [[Blu-ray Disc|Blu-rays]]|
|revenue = |
operating |profit |=
|homepage = http://www.firstrunfeatures.com
}}
 
'''First Run Features''' is an [[independent film]] distribution company based in New York City.<ref>[http://realscreen.com/2010/07/29/firstrunfeatures-20100729/ Kelly Anderson, ''Distributor profile: First Run Features, Real Screen'', ''July 29, 2010'']</ref> 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 and foreign films, including many films about [[LGBT]] issues, Jewish experience, and political and human rights issues.
 
==History==
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 (2009 film)|Crude]]'', [[Alex Gibney]] and [[Eugene Jarecki]]'s ''[[The Trials of Henry Kissinger]]'', ''[[Alice (1988 film)|Alice]]'', ''[[Save Me (2007 film)|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 was founded in 1979 by a group of filmmakers in order to advance the distribution of independent film.<ref>[https://www.firstrunfeatures.com/presskits/first_run_press/fran.pdf The Independent: "Fran Spielman" interviewed by Eric Breitbart and Morris Sapadin] vol 4 no I</ref> In the 1980s, the company focused on more mainstream documentaries and started distributing films on video.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/14/arts/film-finding-a-place-for-small-movies-in-the-big-picture.html |title= Finding a Place for Small Movies in the Big Picture |work= The New York Times |date= 1998-07-14 |access-date= 2017-11-05}}</ref>
 
It is one of America's largest independent distributors of documentaries and [[art film]]s, releasing 12 to 15 films a year in theaters nationwide and 40 to 60 titles on DVD and [[video on demand|VOD]] annually. First Run distributes a large number of documentaries and 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]](film series)|''Up'' series]], [[Ross McElwee]]'s ''[[Sherman's March (1986 film)|Sherman's March]]'', the [[Academy Awards|Oscar]]-nominated ''[[The Most Dangerous Man in America]]'', ''[[Laura Dekker|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 (2009 film)|Crude]]'', [[Alex Gibney]] and [[Eugene Jarecki]]'s ''[[The Trials of Henry Kissinger]]'', ''[[Alice (1988 film)|Alice]]'', ''[[Save Me (2007 film)|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]].
 
==Notable films==
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! Year
! Title
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| 2016
| ''A Matter of Time''<ref name=Devlin>{{cite news|last=Devlin|first=Mike|title=Kathryn Calder raises ALS awareness with personal doc A Matter of Time|url=https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/local-arts/kathryn-calder-raises-als-awareness-with-personal-doc-a-matter-of-time/|access-date=August 22, 2020|newspaper=Vancouver Sun|date=July 28, 2016}}</ref>
|-
| 2015
| ''[[Welcome to Leith]]''<ref name=Indiewire>{{cite news|last=Van Cott|first=Kaeli|title=First Run Features Acquires Sundance Doc 'Welcome to Leith'|url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/first-run-features-acquires-sundance-doc-welcome-to-leith-20150622|accessdateaccess-date=February 1, 2016|newspaper=Indiewire|date=July 22, 2015}}</ref>
|-
| 2015
| ''[[Troublemakers (2015 film)|Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art||Troublemakers (2015 film)]]''<ref name=Rosen>{{cite news|last=Rosen|first=Steven|title=Land Art|url=http://citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-33724-land_art.html/|accessdateaccess-date=January 29, 2016|newspaper=Cincinnati City Beat|date=September 30, 2015}}</ref>
|-
| 2015
| ''The Looking Glass''<ref name=Levine>{{cite news|last=Levine|first=Sydney|title=John Hancock's 'The Looking Glass' is Coming to Theaters Via First Run Features|url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/sydneylevine/john-hancocks-the-looking-glass-is-coming-to-theaters-via-first-run-features-20151006/|accessdateaccess-date=January 29, 2016|newspaper=Indiewire|date=October 6, 2015}}</ref>
|-
| 2013
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| 2012
| ''[[Pink Ribbons, Inc.]]''<ref name=Vlessing>{{cite news|last=Vlessing|first=Etan|title=NFB’sNFB's Drisdell discusses challenges of "Pink Ribbons" release|url=http://realscreen.com/2012/01/25/nfbs-drisdell-discusses-challenges-of-pink-ribbons-release/|accessdateaccess-date=February 1, 2012|newspaper=Reelscreen|date=January 27, 2012}}</ref>
|-
| 2011
| ''[[The Man Nobody Knew]]''<ref name="TMNK">{{cite video |people=Carl Colby (director) |date=September 2011 |title=The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby |url=httphttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt1931549/ |medium=Motion picture |publisher=Act 4 Entertainment |___location=New York City |ref=September 23, 2011}}</ref>
|-
| 2010
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| 2009
| ''[[Altiplano (2009 film)|Altiplano]]''
|-
| 2009
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| 2008
| ''[[Moving Midway]]''
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| 2008
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| 2008
| ''[[Constantine's Sword (film)|Constantine's Sword]]''
|-
| 2008
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| 2002
| ''The Butterfly''
|-
| 2001
| ''Venus Boyz''
|-
| 2001
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| 1992
| ''[[Utz (film)|Utz]]''
|-
|1992
|[[Alice (1988 film)|''Alice'']]
|-
| 1991
| ''[[The Architecture of Doom]]''
|-
| 1986
| ''[[Sherman's March (1986 film)|Sherman's March]]''
|-
| 1984
| ''[[Before Stonewall]]''
|-
| 1983
| ''[[Wild Style]]''
|-
| 1979
| ''[[The War at Home (1979 film)|The War at Home]]''<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-classic-vietnam-era-documentary-the-war-at-home-and-its-lessons-of-nonviolence|title=The Classic Vietnam-Era Documentary "The War at Home" and Its Lessons of Nonviolence|last=Canby|first=Peter|magazine=The New Yorker|date=2018-10-12|access-date=2019-01-27|language=en|issn=0028-792X}}</ref>
|-
| 1975
| ''[[A Boy and His Dog (1975 film)|A Boy and his Dog]]''
|-
|}
 
==References==
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==Sources==
* [http://www.firstrunfeatures.com/ First Run Features website]
* {{IMDB company|0002318}}
* [http://www.the-numbers.com/market/Distributors/FirstRun.php First Run Features box office]
 
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[[Category:Companies based in New York City]]
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