Nearly two hundred full-length feature films and fifty shorts were hand-selected to comprise New World Cinema.
New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990–Present, an online streaming video collection, delivers approximately 200 fulllength feature films from leading independent distributors such as Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, MK2, and the Global Films Initiative, along with some fifty award-winning shorts.
The films, all of which appeared at major film festivals, have collectively won more than one thousand awards and come from leading industry distributors like Kino Lorber, First Run Features, and Film Movement.
Each film includes link to IMDB
Tools to identify and annotate sections of the films, making it easy for faculty to use the material for instruction and assignments
Strong cross-disciplinary appeal beyond film studies courses, such as sociology, linguistics, history, anthropology, literature, and other disciplines
Broad in scope with coverage of International titles from more than 60 countries with 40 different languages represented
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