Film4 Productions

For the television channel, see Film4.

Film4 Productions is a British film production company owned by Channel Four Television Corporation. The company has been responsible for backing a large number of films made in the United Kingdom. The company's first production was Walter, directed by Stephen Frears, which was released in 1982.

History

Prior to 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. The name "Film4 Productions" was introduced in 2006 to tie in with the relaunch of the FilmFour broadcast channel as Film4.

Selected list of productions

• 12 Years A Slave (UK and co-production distribution only with eOne UK and Channel 4, co-production with Fox Searchlight Pictures, Regency Enterprises, River Road Entertainment and Plan B Entertainment)
• 127 Hours (co-production with Pathé, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Everest Entertainment, Cloud Eight Films, Darlow Smithson Productions and Warner Bros. Pictures)
• 24 Hour Party People (co-production with United Artists, UK Film Council, Revolution Films and Baby Cow Productions)
• A Field in England
• A Life Less Ordinary (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox)
• A Month in the Country (co-production with Euston Films)
• A Room with a View (co-production with Merchant Ivory Productions and Goldcrest Films)
• A Zed and Two Noughts (co-production with British Film Institute and Artificial Eye)
• And When Did You Last See Your Father?
• Another Year
• Attack the Block (co-production with Big Talk Pictures, StudioCanal and UK Film Council)
• Beautiful Thing
• Bent
• Berberian Sound Studio (co-production with Warp X Productions, Screen Yorkshire and UK Film Council)
• Bhaji on the Beach
• Birthday Girl
• Blue (co-production with BBC Radio 3 and Arts Council of Great Britain)
• Brassed Off (co-production with Miramax Films and Prominent Features)
• Bread and Roses
• Brothers of the Head
• Buena Vista Social Club
• Buffalo Soldiers (co-production with Good Machine and Miramax Films)
• Bunny and the Bull (co-production with Warp X Productions, Wild Bunch, Optimum Releasing, Screen Yorkshire and UK Film Council)
• Career Girls
• Carla's Song
• Charlotte Gray (co-production with Ecosse Films and Warner Bros.)
• Christmas Carol: The Movie (co-production with UK Film Council)
• Comrades
• Croupier
• Cuban Fury (co-production with British Film Institute
• Damage (co-production with Le Studio Canal+ and Canal+)
• Dance with a Stranger
• Dancer in the Dark (co-production with Canal+, France 3 Cinéma, Zentropa and Fine Line Features)
• Dead Man's Shoes
• Comrades (co-production with now-defunct National Film Finance Corporation)
• Death To Smoochy (co-production with Senator Film and Warner Bros.)
• Deep Water
• Dogma (produced by View Askew)
• Donkey Punch (co-production with EM Media, Madman Entertainment, Screen Yorkshire, UK Film Council and Warp X Productions)
• Drowning By Numbers
• East Is East
• Eat The Rich (co-production with Michael White)
• Elizabeth (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Working Title Films)
• Enduring Love (co-production with Pathé, UK Film Council and Ingenious Film Partners)
• Fever Pitch
• Four Lions (co-production with Warp Films, Wild Bunch and Optimum Releasing)
• Four Weddings and a Funeral (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Working Title Films)
• Frank
• Franklyn (co-production with Recorded Picture Company, HanWay Films and UK Film Council)
• Funny Games (co-production with Warner Independent Pictures and Tartan Films)
• Gangster No. 1 (co-production with Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Road Movies Filmproduktion and BSkyB)
• Gregory's Two Girls
• Hallam Foe (co-production with Ingenious Film Partners, Glasgow Film Office, Scottish Screen and Sigma Films)
• Happy-Go-Lucky (co-production with Ingenious Film Partners and Summit Entertainment)
• Hidden City
• High Hopes
• Hilary and Jackie
• How I Live Now (co-production with British Film Institute, Magnolia Pictures and Passion Pictures)
• How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
• Howards End
• Hunger
• Hush (co-production with Warp X, Pathé, Screen Yorkshire, UK Film Council and Optimum Releasing)
• Hyde Park on Hudson (co-production with Daybreak Pictures and Focus Features)
• In Bruges (co-production with Focus Features
• Invincible (co-production with Fine Line Features)
• The Iron Lady (co-production with Pathé, UK Film Council and The Weinstein Company)
• Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
• K-PAX ((co-production with Universal Pictures and Intermedia Films)
• Kill List (co-production with UK Film Council, Warp X, Screen Yorkshire and Rook Films)
• Ladybird, Ladybird
• Late Night Shopping
• Life is Sweet
• London Kills Me
• Looking for Eric (co-production with Icon Entertainment International)
• Lucky Break (co-production with Paramount Pictures and Miramax Films)
• Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence
• Me and You and Everyone We Know
• My Beautiful Laundrette (co-production with SAF Productions and Working Title Films)
• My Name Is Joe

• Neds (co-production with Scottish Screen, UK Film Council and Wild Bunch)
• Never Let Me Go (co-production with DNA Films and Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• Nowhere Boy (co-production with UK Film Council, Ecosse Films and The Weinstein Company)
• On The Road (co-production with American Zoetrope, MK2, France Télévisions, Canal+, Ciné+, France 2 Cinéma and Vanguard Films)
• Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (co-production with UK Film Council)
• Orphans (co-production with Scottish Arts Council and Glasgow Film Office)
• P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
• Paris, Texas (co-production with Westdeutscher Rundfunk)
• Peter's Friends (co-production with The Samuel Goldwyn Company)
• Raining Stones
• Red Monarch
• Riff-Raff
• Secrets & Lies
• Series 7: The Contenders (co-production with USA Films)
• Seven Psychopaths (co-production with British Film Institute, HanWay Films and CBS Films)
• Sexy Beast (Co-production with Kanzaman, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Recorded Picture Company)
• Shame (co-production with Fox Searchlight Pictures, UK Film Council, See-Saw Films, HanWay Films and Momentum Pictures/Alliance Films)
• Shaun of the Dead (co-production with Big Talk Productions, Working Title Films, StudioCanal, Universal Studios and Rogue Pictures)
• She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
• Shopping
• Sightseers (co-production with Big Talk Pictures)
• Slow West
• Slumdog Millionaire (co-production with Fox Searchlight Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Pathé and Celador Films)
• Stormy Monday
• Submarine (co-production with Red Hour Films and Warp Films)
• Sunshine (co-production with Alliance Atlantis, Eurimages, Telefilm Canada, The Movie Network, Kinowelt, TV2, ORF and Paramount Classics)
• The Belly of an Architect (co-production with Hemdale Film Corporation)
• The Crying Game (co-production with British Screen, Eurotrustees, Nippon Film Development and Finance and Palace Pictures)
• The Deep Blue Sea (co-production with UK Film Council and Artificial Eye)
• The Double (co-production with Alcove Entertainment and British Film Institute)
• The Eagle (co-production with Focus Features)
• The Future)
• The Great Bear
• The House of Mirth (co-production with Granada Productions, Kinowelt, Arts Council of England, Showtime Networks and The Scottish Arts Council)
• The Inbetweeners Movie (co-production with Bwark Productions, Young Films and Entertainment Film Distributors)
• The Inbetweeners Movie 2 (co-production with Bwark Productions)
• The Land Girls (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Gramercy Pictures, Intermedia Films and Canal+)
• The Last King of Scotland (co-production with DNA Films and Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (co-production with Universal Pictures and Tiger Aspect)
• The Look of Love (co-production with StudioCanal UK, Revolution Films and Baby Cow Productions)
• The Lovely Bones (co-production with DreamWorks Pictures)
• The Madness of King George (co-production with The Samuel Goldwyn Company)
• The Motorcycle Diaries
• The Navigators
• The Pope Must Die (co production with Miramax Films, Palace Pictures and Michael White)
• The Red Violin (co-production with New Line Cinema, Lionsgate, Telefilm Canada and CITY-TV)
• The Scouting Book for Boys (co-production with Celador Films, Screen East and Pathé)
• The Spirit of '45
• The Stone Roses: Made of Stone (co-production with Warp Films)
• The Straight Story (co-production with StudioCanal and Walt Disney Pictures)
• The Woman in the Fifth (co-production with UK Film Council, Canal+, Orange Cinéma Séries and Artificial Eye)
• This Is England
• Touching the Void
• Trainspotting
• Trance (co-production with Pathé, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Cloud Eight Films and Indian Paintbrush)
• Tyrannosaur (co-production with Warp X, Inflammable Films, UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire, EM Media, and Optimum Releasing (as StudioCanal UK))
• Velvet Goldmine (co-production with Newmarket Capital Group, Miramax Films, Killer Films and Zenith Entertainment)
• Venus (co-production with UK Film Council and Miramax Films)
• When the Wind Blows
• Wish You Were Here
• Wuthering Heights (co-production with HanWay Films, Ecosse Films, UK Film Council, Goldcrest Films and Screen Yorkshire)

External links

• Film4 Productions