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A&E IndieFilms A&E IndieFilms is the feature documentary production arm of A&E Networks. A&E IndieFilms commissions, acquires and provides finishing funds for feature documentaries. The strand has partnered with theatrical distributors including Paramount Vantage on Nanette Burstein's Sundance hit "American Teen;" ThinkFilm on "Murderball," Magnolia Pictures on "Jesus Camp," Newmarket Films on "Rock School," and Sony Pictures Classics on "My Kid Could Paint That." This September Roadside Attractions will release the latest A&E IndieFilms original production, "The September Issue," a film by documentarian R.J. Cutler.
R.J. Cutler ("American High," "The War Room," "Black, White") is the first filmmaker ever to gain access to Vogue's legendary editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour. With unprecedented access, filmmaker R.J. Cutler's new film "The September Issue" does for fashion what R.J. did for politics in "The War Room," taking the viewer inside a world they only think they know. The film received the Excellence in Cinematography award in the U.S. Documentary category at Sundance 2009.
Since its inception in 2005, A&E IndieFilms has gained an impressive track record, with both "Murderball" and "Jesus Camp" nominated for Academy Awards. In 2008, the IndieFilms original production "American Teen" premiered to tremendous excitement at Sundance Film Festival, and was released by Paramount Vantage that summer. Filmmaker Nanette Burstein ("The Kid Stays In the Picture," "On the Ropes") spent a year on location filming the intense drama of the quintessential American High School Senior class in Indiana.
In 2007 an A&E IndieFilm by Amir Bar-Lev, "My Kid Could Paint That," premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically by Sony Pictures Classics. Bar Lev is currently in production on another A&E IndieFilms original film produced by John Battsek ("One Day in September," "In the Shadow of the Moon," "My Kid Could Paint That") chronicling the story of the professional football star and decorated U.S. soldier Pat Tillman, who died in a "friendly fire" incident in Afghanistan in 2004. Also in production now is a feature documentary on Eliot Spitzer by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney ("Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," "Taxi to the Dark Side"). The film will follow the rise and fall of the former New York governor and the powerful forces battling to destroy him.
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