Our New President

Our New President is a 2018 documentary produced by Third Party Films.[1] It follows the story of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and is told entirely through footage from Russian state-sponsored media. Our New President is a satire about the Russian media and its take on American politics.[2][3]

Our New President
Directed byMaxim Pozdorovkin
Produced byJoe Bender, Maxim Pozdorovkin, Charlotte Cook
Music byIvan Markovsky and The Presidential Band
Edited byMaxim Pozdorovkin, Matvey Kulakov
Release date
  • January 18, 2018 (2018-01-18) (Sundance Film Festival)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryRussia/U.S.A.
LanguageEnglish and Russian

The film was originally made as an amateur short 12 minute collage of short clips from Russian media outlets and amateur clips by Russians for Field of Vision.[4] It was subsequently expanded into a full-length documentary, showing how the Russian media (especially Russia 1, Russia Today and NTV) overhyped the election of Trump in a Russo-centric manner, falsified information leading common Russian people to behave irrationally.[5]

Reception

Our New President premiered in the World Documentary Competition at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.[6][7][8] It premiered on opening day of the festival. Our New President editors Maxim Pozdorovkin and Matvey Kulakov won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing.[9]

Reactions to the documentary, made mostly of loosely stitched visuals from various Russian media as well as home videos made by Russians, were mixed. It received 6 out of 10 points on IMDb[10] while The Collider gave it an unfavourable "F".[11] The Guardian gave the documentary 4 out of 5 stars.[12] The Hollywood Reporter gave it a mixed review.[13]

References
  1. humans.txt. "Third Party Films". www.thirdpartyfilms.com. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  2. "'Our New President': Maxim Pozdorovkin on Creating an Entirely Untrue Documentary". No Film School. 2018-02-02. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
  3. Phillips, Charlie (January 21, 2018). "Our New President review – fake news buffet slyly links Trump with Putin". The Guardian.
  4. "Original 12 minute video - Our new President". www.fieldofvision.org. Field of vision. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  5. "Sundance: Our New President". Film society of Lincoln Center. 18 January 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  6. "Our New President, Film Review at Sundance 2018". The Hollywood Reporter. January 18, 2018. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  7. Gleiberman, Owen (2018-01-19). "Sundance Film Review: Our New President". Variety. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  8. "our-new-president". www.sundance.org. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  9. "2018 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS ANNOUNCED". www.sundance.org. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  10. "Ou rnew President". Internet movie database. IMDb. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  11. "'Our New President' Review: As Bad As Our Current President - Sundance 2018". The Collider. 18 January 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  12. "Our New President review – fake news buffet slyly links Trump with Putin". The Guardian. 21 January 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  13. "'Our New President': Film Review Sundance 2018". The Hollywood Reporter. 18 January 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
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