Twitch Film, also known simply as Twitch, is an English language

English language

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 Canadian

Canada

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 website featuring news and reviews of mainly international, independent

Independent film

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 and cult film

Cult film

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s. The website was founded in 2004 by Todd Brown, a cinephile with personal interests in arthouse and grindhouse

Grindhouse

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 cinema. In addition to films, the website covers various film festivals from Sundance

Sundance Film Festival

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, Toronto and Fantasia

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 to Sitges, Cannes

Cannes Film Festival

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 and the Berlinale.

Brad Miska of Bloody Disgusting

Bloody Disgusting

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 wrote that Twitch "...quickly established itself as the online world’s leading source for international, independent, cult, arthouse and genre film news, review and discussion." He also wrote: "Over the years I have become increasingly impressed by what Todd Brown has done with Twitch Film, he has cornered the market for all edgy international releases and has given life to foreign films that might never have seen the light here in the States

United States

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." Ain't It Cool News

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 has linked to Twitch Film pages on multiple occasions and UGO.com quoted a Twitch editor among its list of "critics" on the appearance at Sundance 2010.

Twitch has a large body of writers whom reside in most major film markets in the world including the United States

United States

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, Canada, Hong Kong

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/China

China

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, South Korea

South Korea

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, Japan

Japan

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, Australia

Australia

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 and the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. Those who have published articles on the site as writers, contributors and reviewers include (past and present): Todd Brown, Dave Canfield, Andrew Mack, Kurt Halfyard, Collin Armstrong, Dave Lapsley, Paolo Gilli, Eliza Bennet, Geert Jan, Goran Topalovic, Jim Tudor, Joey Fernandez, Jon Pais, Paul Spann, Marco Villotta, Mathew Kumar, Michael Guillen, Mike McStay, Otavio Moulin, Niels Matthijs, Jason Morehead, Pedro Mizukami, Fred Ambroisine, Peter Martin, Rachel Gandin, Stefan Shih, Sheldon Warnock, Allan Koay, Peter van der Lugt, Timo Karp, Al Young, Cynthia Leung, Marcio Macedo, Peter Nelhaus, Jay Shivankar, Ferran Brooks, Ard Vijn, Omar Hauksson, James Maruyama, Simon de Bruyn, Alan Koay, Ross Miller, Sean Smithson, Kwenton Bellette, James Marsh, James Dennis, Aaron Krasnov, Oggs Cruz, Aharon Keshales, Ryland Aldrich, Josh Hurtado, Shelagh Rowan-Legg, Peter Kuplowski, Ben Umstead, Dustin Chang, Matthew Lee and Hugo Ozman. Scott Weinberg was taken on in 2011 as co-editor.