Distribution

Before deciding on a distributor for our film we decided to look into the options available and then chose which one would suit our film best. The first distributor we looked at was Entertainment Film Distributors.

     Entertainment distributors are the UK’s largest independent film distributor operating in both the UK and the republic or Ireland. Founded in 1978 Entertainment distributes in theatrical, DVD rental and retail fields as well as licensing a substantial catalogue in both Pay-Tv and Free-TV sectors. In recent times entertainment has shown a continued growth and success in the distribution of films building up a large film library over the years. A major film trilogy distributed by this company was The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, which in its peak won seven academy awards.  Since 2000 Entertainment have received a total of thirty-eight Oscar’s and twenty-two BAFTAs. Since lord of the rings Entertainment has had further success with other big box office hits such as, Gangs of New York, Hairspray, Sex and the City, Saw, 17 Again, Final Destination franchise and British films such as Stormbreaker, Run Fat Boy Run and St Trinian’s 1 & 2.  Future films from the company include Martin Scorsese’s first family film, Hugo, and the untitled Freddie Mercury project.

http://www.entertainmentfilms.co.uk/home-entertainment

     The second distribution company we looked at was the UK film council whose main aim is to distribute non-mainstream films and make them more widely available to cinema audiences, and support the export of UK film abroad. On there website the company says that they can make non-mainstream films more accessible in three ways. 

            improving access – There Digital Screen Network is made up of 240 digital screens across the UK that now show non-mainstream films regularly.

            Raising awareness – There Prints and Advertising Fund provides £2 million every year to help British distributors promote non-mainstream films.

Increasing information – there website, http://www.findanyfilm.com/ is one of the UK's leading websites for film fans looking to watch, buy, download or rent films. http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/funding 

After looking in detail at both these companies and discussing with each other we have decided that Entertainment would be the distributor we would chose to distribute our film. This is because this company is much more established and is a more recognized distributor world wide.