Warp Films would be the best media institution to distribute the media product discussed in the document. Warp Films is an independent UK-based film production and distribution company that has experience successfully producing and distributing independent films. While major studios like 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros focus on larger budget films, Warp Films and related companies like Studio Canal specialize in independent films and have networks for distribution in the UK and sometimes internationally. For these reasons, Warp Films would be most likely to distribute an independent British film like the one discussed.

1. What kind of media
institution would
distribute your media
product and why?
By Evie Stewart Emma Thorpe and Kelly Johns

2. IMDb helped us to
research the different
companies behind films
that are similar to our film
opening such as:
A Love’s Labour’s Lost
and Submarine

3. Love’s Labour’s Lost
2000:
Box office:
Budget: $13,000,000 (estimated)
Gross: $284,291 (USA)
Production Company: Pathe pictures
international
Pathe pictures international:
Pathe is a mainly French company but they do
release their film library on DVD into the UK and they
work with companies such as 20th Century Fox Home
Entertainment and Warner bros.

5. Submarine:
Box office:
Budget: £1.2 million (estimated)
Gross: £2.03 million (UK)
Production Company: Warp Films
Warp Films:
Warp Films is an independent film production
company based in Sheffield & London, UK and has
won many awards for the production of their short
films.

7. A major film company such as 20th Century Fox
or Warner Bros would unlikely to be willing to
distribute our film as they usually work with major
high budget films productions in the romance,
comedy and drama genre. As our film is an
independent production we are more likely to be
of interest to Warp Films as they are successful
in producing and distributing independent films
through links with Studio Canal (formally known
as Optimum Releasing). As they are located in
the UK this would also add value to our film as it
keeps it independently British.

9. Studio Canal
Studio Canal UK was formerly Optimum
Releasing, before it was acquired by Studio
Canal in 2006 and renamed Studio Canal UK in
2011.
They are a film distribution company working in
the UK and Ireland.
Distributing independent films they work across
the UK and sometimes Ireland and America
Studio Canal distribute their large back catalogue
of classic British Films through Optimum
releasing's.

11. The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company is a American Film
studio who worked with optimum releasing to
produce and distribute Submarine.
They also work with the company Entertainment
Film Distributors to distribute their independent
productions and Momentum Pictures.
Companies such as these would be likely to
distribute our film as they are mainly linked with
independent films.