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'''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>
==Histroy== 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> 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. 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]].
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