3. WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION

MIGHT DISTRIBUTE YOUR MEDIA

PRODUCT?

WHAT IS A DISTRIBUTER?

A DISTRIBUTER IS SOMEONE OR AN ORGANISATION THAT WILL REPRESENT

YOUR FILM IN PUBLIC PLACES. THEY WILL ALSO SOURCE NEW FILMS TO

REPRESENT IN THEIR DISTRIBUTION CATALOGUE AT FESTIVALS AND MARKETS

ALL AROUND THE WORLD. THEY WILL TRY TO GET IT SOLD TO TELEVISION AND

OTHER COMPANIES THAT SHOW SHORT FILMS.

A DISTRIBUER IS GENERALLY ON ORGANISATION THAT DEALS WITH THE

THEATRICAL RELEASE OF A FILM IN A PARTICULAR COUNTRU OR AREA OF A

COUNTRY AS WELL AS MARKETING AND CIRCULATIO OF FILMS FOR HOME

VIEWING. ALTHOUGH THEY MAY BE INTERESTED IN UNSOLICITED SUBMISSIONS

OR WOR IN PROGRESS, THE MAJORITY OF FILMS THAT DISTRIBORS AQUIRE ARE

COMPLETED FILMS SOURCED AT FILM FESTIVALS AND RELATED MARKETS,

HAVING SAID THAT, IF YOUR FILM HASN’T BEEN PICKED UP ON THE DESTIVAL

CIRCIOT IT IS WORTH MAKING CONTACT WITH DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES AND

FORWARDING A DVD COPY OF YOUR SHORT FILM OR EMAILING A LINK TO YOUR

FILM OBLINE TO SEE IF ANY DISTRIBUTER IS INTERESTED AND IF SO WHAT THEY

OFFER IN TERMS OF A DEAL.

FOR A FILM TO BE DISTRBUTED, THERE MUST BE ALL THE CORRECT ASSETS IN

PLACE. AS WELL AS THIS, DISTRIBUTORS WILL REQUIRE A CLEAR PAPER CHAIN –

CLEAR CONTRACTS AND LICENSE DEALS SO THAT THEY KNOW THAT YOU ARE

LEAGALLY ALLOWED TO SELL ALL THE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF YOUR FILM

ONTO A THIRD PARTY.

WHY WE CHOSE FILM 4

FILM 4

• When researching into what distributer would suit our film best, we firstly looked at ‘Verve’ pictures who produced the film: Bullet boy. The film is also a low budget film shot by first time directors.

• However, comparing this to Film 4 who distribute not only low budget films but also well known block busters, we felt this would be a better distributor for us for these reasons:

• The realism it creates when watching our opening sequence

• It is a modern distributer

• many films they have distributed have close comparisons to our film

• the company distributes a variety of films

• is specific to UK distribution

• They are a well known, highly rated distributer and popular within the film industry.