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First Run Features

New York, New York(approximate location)

First Run Features is a theatrical and home video distributor that has released independent, documentary and foreign films in the United States since 1979.

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Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Film · Documentary
Founded1979company website
LocationNew York, New York
Websitefirstrunfeatures.com
Emailinfo@firstrunfeatures.com | orders@firstrunfeatures.com | marcm@firstrunfeatures.com | sales@firstrunfeatures.com
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Phone+1 212 243 0600
Statusactive2022 credit + site i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
7.4IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

8 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards

21 wins from 41 nominations across all awards

Box office
$123,752

Combined US gross, 7 of 49 titles

Casting By poster
Highest rated
Casting By
2012
7.61,648 votes
Midnight Dancers poster
Lowest rated
Midnight Dancers
1994
5.5307 votes
Mostly
documentary, biography, drama
Active
1979–2022
Rotten Tomatoes
93%
Best known for
Bheja Fry

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 29 of 49 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Credits24 of 49

49 films

Titles per year32 titles · busiest 2015 with 5

32 titles across 26 years, averaging 1.2 a year. The last five years average 0.4 a year, below their long-run rate. 7 of those 26 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time6 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
579their average 7.4200020102020

The 3 titles since 2008 average 7.5, holding at their 7.5 overall. 3 of 6 rated titles sit above their 7.5 average.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Ross McElwee2
Notable cast
  • Ross McElwee2
Genres
  • Documentary20 of 29
  • Biography6 of 29
  • Drama6 of 29
  • History5 of 29
  • Comedy5 of 29

Names appearing on two or more of First Run Features’s produced titles, across the 29 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with10 companies

Companies that appear alongside First Run Features on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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