What makes a British film.

1. What makes a British Film
Lucy Brownnutt

2. 5 Categories
1. Made with British money and resources.
2. Films co-funded with money from Britain. Majority
of finance, cultural content & personnel are British.
3. Films with mostly foreign money investment and a
small British input, either financially or creatively.
4. Films made in the UK with (usually) British cultural
content.
5. American films with some British involvement

3. Social Realism
Social realism is the most typically British of all film
genres.
Social realism is an international movement that
refers to the work of painters, printmakers,
photographers and filmmakers who draw attention
to the everyday conditions of the working classes
and the poor, and who are critical of the social
structures that maintain these conditions. Nation to
nation, it almost always utilizes a form of
descriptive or critical realism.
Films that show our society in a ‘real’ way.

4. An example of a British film that shows social realism is
Billy Elliot.
This film shows social realism because it shows a boy
who comes from a ‘poor background’ and is living in a
difficult time as he was living during the coal miners
strike 1984-1985.
His mother is dead and this shows realism as it shows
that we lose people and still have to carry on without
them like Billy is doing.
Stereotypically Billy’s dad wants him to learn boxing but
instead Billy falls in love with the idea of ballet dancing.

5. Production also makes a British film.
Companies such as Working Titles and Warp
Pictures are very British production companies
and have made many British films using British
actors and also in a British setting.