Wingflix has been covering the presidential inaugurations and political primaries since 2001. 2001 WingFlix was swept up in the political winds and collaborated with IndyMedia in New York to produce “Not My President” which chronicled George W. Bush’s first Inauguration Day in Washington, D.C. and the protests that engulfed the city but were largely ignored by the mainstream media.
This was followed by “Medium Hot” in 2004 a meta-mashup of the political climate with actors embedded in the protests, an homage to Haskell Wexler’s 1968 classic, Medium Cool.
In September 2004 Republican National Convention took place in New York City to give George W. Bush his nomination, it’s all a tv wonderland of smoke and mirrors.We wanted to make a fiction out of the facts or a fact out of the fictions. We wrote a screenplay. Our cameras wove through the city. capturing the actors as underground journalists, interviewing real people, protesters, whoever.
In 2009 we went back to Washington D.C to shoot, “Bigger then the Beatles, Obama and the Peeps” Were you there? Two million people showed up to celebrate.
2012 took us to South Carolina for the Republican Presidential Primary. Ron Paul vs Mitt Romney vs Newt Gingrich in the Palmetto state vying to face Obama.
We made “The Deplorables and the Despicables” in 2017 after the inauguration of Donald Trump.
We combined Pro Publica footage of January 6 with Biden’s abbreviated inauguration in 2021 for “Biden Time”.
WingFlix began in 1996 in New York City. Our first homegrown production was “Ups A Daisy.” Since then we are very grateful to have worked with many independent, creative people in the city and beyond.
Our artistic appetite has been nourished by the incredible talent in Music, dance and theater and the heart that is New York City. We’ve traveled to the highlands of Guatemala to work with Mayan students.
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