Illustration: Simon Bailly In July, the chef and food-media personality Eddie Huang woke up to a text message from Jason Ropell, a film executive at Mubi. It sounded urgent: “Let’s talk soonest.” Mubi, which distributes indie and foreign films and streams them to millions of monthly subscribers, had been preparing an August premiere for Huang’s documentary Vice Is Broke, which charts the rise and fall of his former employer Vice Media. Mubi had acquired rights to the film in January for a