Political Quiver Titles

As we head into election season this fall, movie aggregator Quiver Digital has a few clients with independent films that share insights on the political scene of today. Here is a summary of two documentaries you should check out on iTunes today!

Street Fight

“Street Fight” is a thrilling Academy Award®-nominated story of bare-knuckle politics in America. When a young unknown challenger named Cory Booker takes on the head of a powerful political machine, he discovers that sometimes elections are won and lost in the streets. Gritty, funny, and surprisingly inspirational, the film goes behind-the-scenes in a rough-and-tumble campaign and offers an intimate, unvarnished view of Booker before he became a U.S. Senator and regular fixture on national political talk shows. Street Fight also explores the complex politics of race in an election that pits Spike Lee and Cornel West against Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and features Bill Bradley and Chris Christie. Directed by two-time Oscar nominated documentary filmmaker, Marshall Curry, and winner of the Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, the critically acclaimed film was called “the best American political documentary since The War Room” by the Washington Post.

Clinton Cash

“Clinton Cash” is a critical examination of the Peter Schweizer book by the same name, and subsequent investigative reports by leading news organizations such as The New York Times, ABC News and the Washington Post. In 2000, Bill and Hillary Clinton owed millions of dollars in legal debt. Since then, they’ve earned over $130 million. Where did the money come from? Schweizer follows the Clinton money trail, revealing the connection between their personal fortune, their “close personal friends”, the Clinton Foundation, foreign nations, and some of the highest ranks of government. Schweizer reveals the Clinton’s troubling dealings in Kazakhstan, Colombia, Haiti, and other places at the “wild west” fringe of the global economy. In this blockbuster exposé, Schweizer merely presents the troubling facts he’s uncovered. Meticulously researched and scrupulously sourced, filled with headline-making revelations, Clinton Cash raises serious questions of judgment, of possible indebtedness to an array of foreign interests, and ultimately, of fitness for high public office.

If you have a film that you think could benefit from the hot button debates of the campaign trail, now is the time to act. For retailers like iTunes, we like to recommend a pre-sale window that gives you time to build up your marketing and social media strategy heading towards that all important live date. Here’s a little-known secret: if your film performs strongly in pre-sales, there’s also a higher chance of it charting in the New & Noteworthy sections because it will already have sales under its belt by the day it goes live, rather than starting from scratch.

If you’ve recently released a film with Quiver or Premiere Digital and think that your independent film of one of these topics might deserve distribution or perhaps needs to be pitched to the platforms in this new light, let us know by reaching out to info@quiverdigital.com.