Commodity City

Commodity City (2017)

a short documentary film about the world’s largest wholesale market

Producer: Kira Simon-Kennedy
Producer: Daniel Cooper
Editor: Daniel Garcia

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WATCH ONLINE

• Nowness

• Vimeo Staff Pick

• The Atlantic

• National Geographic

• Aeon

AWARDS

• Cinema Eye Honor 2018 Shortlist

• Ann Arbor Film Festival - Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker

• Ashland Independent Film Festival - Best Documentary Short

• New Orleans Film Festival - Documentary Short Special Jury Award

• Hamptons International Film Festival - Honorable Mention for Best Documentary Short Film

• Regard Film Festival - Special Mention Jury Award

• Environmental Film Festival Australia - Audience Choice Award for Best International Short Film

• Minikino Film Week - Best Short Documentary

EXHIBITION

• Honey Ramka, Brooklyn, NY, 2018

PAST SCREENINGS

January 2017

• Slamdance Film Festival, Utah, USA

February 2017

• Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands

March 2017

• True/False Film Festival, Missouri, USA

• Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, USA

April 2017

• Dallas Film Festival, Texas, USA

• Sarasota Film Festival, Florida, USA

• Florida Film Festival, USA

• Filmfest Dresden, Germany

May 2017

• Maryland Film Festival - opening night shorts

• DOXA Vancouver, Canada

• Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado, USA

• Doc Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

• Innsbruck International Film Festival, Austria

• FICII - Inca Imperial International Film Festival, Lima, Peru

June 2017

• Sheffield Doc/Fest, UK

• Breakthroughs Film Festival, Toronto, Canada

• Palm Springs Shortfest, Florida, USA

• Frederick Film Festival, Maryland, USA

July 2017

• Doc/Fest at Dochouse, London, UK

• Artscape, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

• Traverse City Film Festival

• Openeyes Filmfest, Marburg, Germany

August 2017

• La Guarimba International Film Festival, Italy

• San Diego Underground Film Festival, California, USA

• São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil

• Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, Germany

• FARCUME, Faro, Portugal

• Kraljevski Film Festival, Serbia

September 2017

• Camden International Film Festival, Camden, Maine, USA

• Covellite International Film Festival, Butte, Montana, USA

• Quebec City Film Festival, Canada

• Jozi Film Festival, South Africa

October 2017

• 金帧国际短片电影节组 Hancheng Jinzhen International Short Film Festival, Shaanxi, China

• Hamptons International Film Festival, New York, USA

• Tacoma Film Festival, Tacoma, Washington, USA

• Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Arkansas, USA

• Short Film Festival Bali, Indonesia

• Filmfest Eberswalde, Germany

• Lviv International Short Film Festival, Ukraine

• New Orleans Film Festival, Louisiana, USA

• Environmental Film Festival Australia, Melbourne, Australia

• Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, New Mexico, USA

• Seminci, Valladolid, Spain October 21-28

• Jihlava FF October 24 -29 Czech Republic

• Minikino Roadshow, Jakarta & Tangerang, Indonesia October 26-27

• Edinburgh Short Film Festival, Scotland, UK October 27

November 2017

• Denver Film Festival, Colorado, USA, November 1-12

• Cucalorus Festival, North Carolina, USA, November 8-12

• AFI Fest, Los Angeles, California, November 9-16

• FRONTALE Film Festival, Wiener Neustadt, Austria, November 16

• Magma International Short Film Festival, Acireale, Italy, November 23

March 2018

• Regard - Festival International du Court Metrage Au Saguenay, Quebec, Canada, March 14

April 2018

• Ashland Independent Film Festival, Oregon, USA, April 12-16

PRESS

• Filmmaker Magazine - 25 New Faces of Independent Film

• The Jakarta Post

• The Detroit News

• UnionDocs

• Deadline

• We Are Moving Stories

• Film Colossus

• AWFJ

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“GORGEOUSLY SHOT, THEMATICALLY FOCUSED AND POLITICALLY RESONANT”
— AWFJ

“A MESMERIZING WINDOW INTO THE DAILY LIVES OF SOME OF THE 75,000 INDIVIDUAL VENDORS”
— The Atlantic

“A FASCINATING GLIMPSE INTO THE WORLD’S LARGEST WHOLESALE MARKET”
— Colossal