Media Evaluation - Jonathan Yeates

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By Jonathan Yeates

2. Distributors for our film
 For our post apocalyptic film we want to target a specific audience who enjoy these
type of films and to people with an open mind. Because we needed a film
distributor I decided to do some research on independent film distributors.

3. Axiom films
Axiom films is an international film distributing company based in London and was
first found in 1997. This distribution company is a leading, independent label that
brings together a variety of filming activities which has contributed significantly to
their large success. This international conglomerate has released many film titles over
it's time such as "In a Better World" that was that successful it won an award in 2007
for best actor and "Land of Plenty" directed by the famous Wim Wenders. Over the
many years axiom has been around, they have steadily built a reputation for their
creativity and they have grown gastronomically since they first started due to this fact
and many other factors.

4. Pecadillo Pictures
 Peccadillo Pictures is a UK film distributor that has won many awards in Art House,
World Cinema titles and Gay and Lesbian and was originally founded in 2000.
Amongst the years Peccadillo Pictures have worked with well established directors
and as a film distribution company has become an overall success. As well as
winning awards in the genre's above they also distribute short films and the
rereleases of classic titles. Furthermore, in addition to distributing their films to
cinemas, they also distribute their films to an array of platforms such as DVD and
Blu-ray therefore making a bigger financial income and a bigger industry in film
distribution. When distributing their films they distribute them around the
worldwide therefore they have become successful enough to be distributing
worldwide.

5. Vertigo films
 Vertigo films is a UK film distribution company that was first founded in 2002 by
Allan Niblo and James Richardson. Vertigo films ambition was to create and
distribute commercially driven independent cinema. Some of their first
distributions started around 2004 distributing Lionsgate's production of "A good
woman" and "Pusher 2" directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. These 2 initial
distrbutions were a success which overall kick-started their successful mission. One
of Vertigo's biggest successes was their production and distribution of their 2010
hit "Monsters" directed by Garreth Edwards. This film was so successful that as well
as making a financial success, it also gained many awards such as "Top
Independent Films" by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures
and "Best Director" by the British Independent Film Awards.

6. Arrow films
 Arrow films is a multi-form distributor that focuses on distributing both TV series
and films and was originally established in 1991. This multi-form distributor is one
of the leading independent distributors for world cinemas, arthouse, horrors and
classical films. Since arrow films first originated they have worked with many
successful directors such as Denys Arcand and Tinto Brass which has helped
contribute to their financial and industrial success. One of their first ever film
distributions was called "Spirits of the dead" which was released to Blu-ray and
DVD in November 2010.

7. Altitude
 Altitude is an independent film distribution company that was originally created in
May 2012 by Will Clarke. The film company is vertically integrated that focuses on
many aspects as well as film distribution such as finance, production and
international sales. Altitude's first release was actually pretty successful as their film
hit "20 feet from stardom" was the Oscar-winning documentary in 2014 which was
then closely followed by their hits, "Fruitvale station" and "Welcome to New York".
In 2015 altitude distributed another big film called Amy which followed the story of
Amy Winehouse and was released in cinemas on the 3rd of July 2015 in the UK.

8. Warp Films
 Warp films is a successful independent film company based in Sheffield. They
produce, distribute and exhibit independent films with a niche target audience.
Warp films was first established in 1993 and they have released many successful
films over the years such as: Submarine and ’71. Both submarine and ‘71 were a
financial success for their specific target audiences and warp films is one of the
biggest independent film companies in the UK due to films like ‘71 and submarine.

9. The company we have chosen to distribute
our film
 After considering many film distributors we have decided to choose Warp Films as
our distributor. The reason why we have chosen Warp is because our film will
target a niche target audience so therefore we didn’t need a huge conglomerate to
release our film to mainstream cinemas, we needed a well known independent film
company to distribute our films to many art house cinemas. One of our main
reason’s why we chose Warp was because as well as Warp being one of the biggest
UK film companies, they are also local as they are based in Sheffield so therefore
everything will be cheaper with distributing with Warp films and people in this local
area will be able to see our film. Additionally, because Warp films is local that
means we can advertise our film in the local area easily as all of our cast live near
Sheffield.