Film4 Productions
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Film4 Productions is a British film production company owned by Channel 4. The company has been responsible for backing a large number of films made in the United Kingdom. The company's first production was Walter – the directorial debut for Stephen Frears, which saw release in 1982.
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Before 1998, the company was identified as Channel Four Films or FilmFour International. Later, the outfit was re-branded as FilmFour, to coincide with the launch of a new Digital TV channel of the same name. The company cut its budget and staff significantly in 2002, due to mounting losses, and was re-integrated into the drama department of Channel 4.
In 2004, Tessa Ross became head of both Film4 and Channel 4 drama.[1] During her tenure, the production company's logo was revised as a fire engine set ablaze. [2]
[edit] Selected list of Film4 Productions
- Beautiful Thing
- Birthday Girl
- Brassed Off (co-production with Miramax Films and Prominent Features)
- Brothers of the Head
- Buena Vista Social Club
- Buffalo Soldiers (film) (co-production with Good Machine
- Charlotte Gray (co-production with Ecosse Films and Pod Film
- Dancer in the Dark
- Dead Man's Shoes
- Death To Smoochy co-production with Senator Film and Warner Bros.)
- Deep Water
- Dogma
- East Is East
- Elizabeth (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Working Title Films)
- Enduring Love
- Fever Pitch
- Four Weddings and a Funeral (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Working Title Films)
- Hidden City
- Late Night Shopping
- Loved (with 20th Century Fox, Regency Enterprises and Touchstone Pictures)
- Lucky Break (co-production with Paramount Pictures)
- Me and You and Everyone We Know
- P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
- Series 7: The Contenders
- Sexy Beast (co-production with Kanzaman and Recorded Picture Company)
- The Future is Unwritten: Joe Strummer
- The Last King of Scotland (co-production with DNA Films)
- The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (co-production with Universal Pictures and Tiger Aspect)
- The Motorcycle Diaries
- The Straight Story (co-production with StudioCanal and Picture Factory
- This Is England
- Touching the Void
- Trainspotting
- Venus (co-production with UK Film Council and Miramax Films)
- Wish You Were Here
[edit] References
- ^ I mostly think I'm wrong 6 February 2006 Guardian Unlimited interview
- ^ FilmFour all fired up 11 September 2005 Variety Magazine article
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