| Director: | Maxim Pozdorovkin |
| Producer: | Joe Bender, Maxim Pozdorovkin, Charlotte Cook |
| Music: | Ivan Markovsky and The Presidential Band |
| Editing: | Maxim Pozdorovkin, Matvey Kulakov |
| Runtime: | 77 minutes |
| Country: | Russia/U.S.A. |
| Language: | English and Russian |
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The film was originally made as an amateur short 12 minute collage of short clips from Russian media outlets and amateur clips by Russians for Field of Vision.[4] It was subsequently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]