2. Distributors and Funders
• The role of the distributor is to bring the film
to the market, deliver an audience to the film,
find a USP and decide when to release the film
• Normally regional film funds and foreign
investors fund films. There are usually 3-10
financiers for a film and the advantages of
having more than one source of funding
means that the producer and director is in
charge
3. An Ideal Distributor: Film 4
• As our film is independent and low budget we would be appealing to
small companies such as Film4
•We wouldn’t have distributors from large companies such as Warner
Brothers as we are an independent film, not fitting into their Blockbuster
criteria and wouldn’t be attracting a mass audience
4. Titles for our film opening
•The titles we used for our film opening established the productions company
(Revolution Productions) distributor (Film4) and funder (Lottery Fund)
•This helped develop the tension created in the opening
•We then showed who was starring in the film by introducing the main
characters
•The film title ‘The Witness’ was put in at the end to add to the audience’s
anxiety as they have watched the whole film opening but do not know the title,
this means they are more likely to watch the whole opening and they would
remember it
