- Brittish film production company
- Based in sheffield, with furthur offices in Nottingham and London
- Founded in 2005
- Produces feature films
- Its a digital film studio, that produces feature films in the UK with budgets usually between £400,000 and £800,000
- Serves as a format for new directors to create movies for the first time on a lower budget scale
- It began with support from organisations such as Warp Films, Film Four, the UK Film Council etc.
- Its filmography includes "Donkey Punch", "Kill List", "Hush" and "For Those in Peril"
STUDIO CANAL-
- French based production and distribution company
- Owns the third-largest film library in the world
- Owned by the Canal+ Group and Universal Studios
- Founded in 1988 by Pierre Lescure
- Has strong links to Universal Studios
- Its film library includes Terminator 2:Judgement Day, The Carry On series, The Ladykillers, Total Recall etc.
- It acquired UK-based distributor Optimum Releasing in 2006
- Also acquired german distributor Kinowelt in 2008, who distributed their films up to that point
- Both these companies have now been renamed as StudioCanal#
- Its a registered charity
- It finds, preserves and provides public access to moving image made in or about the Yorkshire region.
- Their growing collections currently contain over 50,000 titles
- Digital television channel available in the UK and ireland
- Owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, that screens films.
- Offers films in standard definition free of charge
- Viewers must have a paid subcription with Virgin Media or Sky
- Started in 1982
- Has been responsible for backing a large number of films made in the UK
- Costs £5.99 a month, eventually rising up to £7
- Spin-off channels include Film4 +1 and Film4 HD
- Was a non-departmental public body set up in 2000 by the labour government to develop and promote the film industry in the UK
- Was constituted as a private company
- Was funded through sources including the National Lottery
- The Chief Executive Officer was John Woodward
- On 26th July 2010, the Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition abolished the council
- It closed on March 31st 2011, with many of its functions passing to the British Film Institute
- The councils distribution and exhibition department worked to make non-mainstream films more widely available to cinema audiences
- The UKFC also funded the Skillset Film Skills Fund, nine regional screen agencies, the British Film Institute
- Film production company
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