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]
The film was originally made as an amateur short 12 minute collage of short clips from Russian media outlets and amateur clips by Russians for Field of Vision.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]
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]