My research into Media Institutions

Film4 Productions is a British film production and distribution company that is owned by Channel 4. It’s responsible for producing a wide range of films all of different genres and is well known for backing a lot of films that are made within the UK, and is commended for its films as of the past 25 years of British cinema history. From this, it attracts some of the world’s most stimulating national and international innovative talent.

Film 4 Productions main aims and objectives are to welcome new talent. On their website they state, ‘Film4 develops and co-finances films and is known for working with the most innovative talent in the UK’. One of their older, much loved films is, ‘My Beautiful Launderette’ (1985). This film started off as a low budget British film (of about £650,000). This film ended up making a gross profit of about £1,550,000. Film4 Productions take a huge interest in new and fresh talent, and is proud of its original talent. Not only do Film4 Productions produce films but they also present them on the free view channel ‘Film 4’, so fresh talents can be pushed and motivated, and perhaps even for cinema release. An example of a film that started off as an extremely low budget film is ‘Wish You Were Here’ (1987) that ended up with a gross profit of about £2,100,000.

To conclude this, Film4 Productions would be an ideal production company for our type of film because they would welcome our fresh talent, as well as creating a type of platform for us so we would be able to escalate with our film. Also, many low budget British films have turned up to Film4 Productions with not that much of a budget, but end coming out the other side with over a £1 million profit!

By Sophie Herridge