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HOT TO TROT
A film by Gail Freedman
88 minutes, color, DCP & Blu ray, 2017

The music..the spectacle...the costumes...the grace. Ballroom dance
is enjoying a renaissance here in America, as well as abroad.

Set in the swinging world of same-sex competitive ballroom dance, this entertaining documentary, winner of the Audience Award at Newfest,
goes inside that little-known world as it follows four men and women on
and off the dance floor for over four years.

OPENS TODAY in NYC  |  OPENS SEPTEMBER 14 in LA


 
TVTV: Video Revolutionaries
A film by Paul Goldsmith
82 minutes, color, Digital, 2018

Featuring Bill Murray, Hunter Thompson, Lily Tomlin, Steven Spielberg, Goldie Hawn, Abbie Hoffman and more, TVTV: Video Revolutionaries tells the amazing story of Top Value Television, a band of merry video makers who, from 1972 to 1977, took the then brand-new portable video camera and went out to document the world.

Like a time machine back to the '70s, TVTV is filled with now-famous characters who were then just beginning their climb to iconic.


OPENS IN NEW YORK ON OCTOBER 19
 
THE LOST VILLAGE
A film by Roger Paradiso
88 minutes, color, Digital, 2017

Greenwich Village was once a bohemian sanctuary for starving artists and college students. Today, NYU charages outrageous tuition as they take over more and more historic land. Student debt is at an all-time high while student prostitution and suicide are on the rise.

The Lost Village
pulls back the curtain on this greedy land grab to discover what happened to the place that gave us Dylan, Warhol, Kerouac, Hendrix, Collins, Pryor, Ginsberg, Gaga and so many more.

OPENS IN NEW YORK ON OCTOBER 19
 
INVISIBLE HANDS
A film by Shraysi Tandon
75 minutes, color, DCP & Blu ray, 2018

Produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Charles Ferguson, Invisible Hands brings to light child labor and trafficking within the supply chains
of the world's biggest companies. It is a harrowing account of children
as young as 6 years old making the products we use every day.

Participants in the film include Nobel Peace Prize recipient Kailash Satyarthi; New York Times writer and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof; and journalist/investigator Ben Skinner.

OPENS IN NEW YORK & LOS ANGELES NOVEMBER 2018

 
MADEMOISELLE PARADIS
A film by Barbara Albert
97 minutes, color, DCP & Blu ray, 2017

Mademoiselle Paradis is the true story of Maria Paradis, a gifted pianist who lost her eyesight as a child but regains it as a young adult. But this miracle comes at a price as she is forced to choose between an ordinary life in the light or an extraordinary life in the darkness, as a virtuoso.

"Sensual, sensitive historical drama. A fresh, inquisitive portrait
...the engrossing result feels entirely modern." 
-Variety

OPENS IN NEW YORK FALL 2018
 
CUBAN FOOD STORIES
A film by Asori Soto
82 minutes, color, DCP & Blu ray, 2018

After a decade living in the United States, Asori Soto returns to his homeland of Cuba to search for the missing flavors of his childhood a journey to discover culinary traditions long thought lost due to the hardship that Cuba faced after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Soto embarks on a road-trip adventure around the island, visiting regions so remote that you can only arrive by raft or horseback. His journey will leave your mouth watering as we rediscover the culinary roots of Cuba.

OPENS IN NEW YORK FALL 2018
 
THE SECOND TIME AROUND
A film by Leon Marr
107 minutes, color, DCP & Blu ray, 2017

Katherine Mitchell, a widowed yet vibrant senior, wasn’t looking for love a second time – not at her age, and certainly not with grumpy Isaac Shapiro ... at a residence for seniors, no less!

But despite their age and despite their nosy neighbors, she and Isaac warm to each other over their shared love of music, and together they set out to fulfill Katherine’s lifelong dream of going to the opera in Milan.


COMING SOON!
 
For screening links and information, please contact:

Marc Mauceri | marcm@firstrunfeatures.com | 212-243-0600 x20


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