Adam Werbach is founder of Ironweed Films, a DVD-of-the-month club breaking new ground by using independent film to rally people around progressive social and political issues. He also runs Act Now Productions, a progressive media company that produces, distributes, and packages films, and serves as public utilities commissioner for San Francisco. In 1996, at age 23, Werbach was elected the youngest-ever national president of the Sierra Club. http://www.ironweedfilms.com

Blog Entries by Adam Werbach

Sundance Report, Day 3

Posted January 22, 2006 | 03:22 PM (EST)


We're now in the third full day of Sundance, and you can tell that the hangovers from late night parties are beginning to affect the audiences. So much of Sundance is about the thrill of the chase; the chance to screen a movie that will be a film that everyone...

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Sundance Report, Day 2

Posted January 21, 2006 | 04:32 PM (EST)


Sundance Day 2 Report

The snow is starting to Fall in Park City, and early favorites are beginning to emerge among the films that have screened to date. Somebodies, the coming of age story of a young black man in Athens, Georgia is threatening to become the breakthrough film of...

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Sundance Report, Day 1

Posted January 20, 2006 | 03:33 PM (EST)


Robert Redford's annual celebration of independent film launched last night with a screening of Nicole Holofcener's Friends With Money, a story of the lives of liberal women on the West Side of Los Angeles. Featuring Jennifer Aniston, Joan Cusack, Frances McDormand, and Catherine Keener, the film was a good metaphor...

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Let Brokeback Play

Posted January 13, 2006 | 01:09 AM (EST)


Brokeback Mountain has now pulled in close to $25 million at the box office, with per-screen revenue coming in at three-times the rate of the blockbuster film King Kong. You'd think that theatre owners would be chomping at the bit to show the film at their theaters. After all,...

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