Research into film Institutions

We want to find a film institution which would be a good company to produce our film, we want this company to be a British institution, this is as, if our film was going to be produced it would probably be a British institution, and not Hollywood. We have looked at several films which follow a similar genre to our film, and and produced by British institutions.

We firstly looked at the film 28 Days Later which is a horror/thriller film made in 2002 by Danny Boyle. The film was produced by DNA films which is a British film company supported by The British Film Council. However the film was then distributed by an American company called Fox Searchlight Pictures, which is part of the well known institution 20th Century Fox. The director and producer of this film must have decided that it was best the film was distributed by a large American company, so the film would have got more publicity, ratings and advertisement. As this was not totally a British film, we will probably not use these companies.

Dead Man's Shoes was another British film we looked at, it was produced in 2004 and directed by Shane Meadows, it follows the same genre we want to follow, psychological thriller. It was produced by a British company called Warp films, and also distributed by a British name Optimum Releasing. These were both companies we considered using for our film.

The final film we researched was Franklyn, which is quite a new film released in February 2009 in the U.K, written and directed by Gerald McMorrow. This film also follows the thriller genre. The company that produced and funded the film was British, The Recorded Picture Company, also supported by the UK Film Council. The distributor of the film was again British institution called Contender Films. We feel that these are the film institutions that we would like to produce and distribute our film.

We have made this decision of using these institutions; The Recorded Picture Company and Contender Films as we like that both of the companies are British, which is what we want for our thriller film. As the film Franklyn is also like the psychological thriller film we want to achieve, we feel these institutions would be the best British institutions to produce and distribute our film.