Case Study- Film 4

Film4 was started in 1982 and was originally known as Film4 Productions; it has backed a large variety and amount of films not only in the UK but around the world. Film4 is owned by the Channel Four TV Corporation.

Film4s first production was released in 1982 written by Stephen Frears called Walter.

In 2002 Channel Four had to reduce its budget from £30 million to £10 million because of an increasing amount of money lost caused by the Film4 representing British Film trying to compete with Hollywood.

In 2006 the name Film 4 Productions was introduced due to the relaunch of the FilmFour broadcast channel as Film4.

Film4 is made up of many people each with a different job role in order to ensure the organisation is able to run efficiently:

Tessa Ross: Controller: Film and Drama

Sue Bruce Smith: Head of Commercial and Brand Strategy

Sam Lavender: Commissioning Executive

Rose Garnett: Head of Development

Anna Higgs: Commissioning Executive

Eva Yates: Development Editor

Polly Stokes: Development Editor

Tom Leggett: Development Editor

Tracey Josephs: Head of Production

Gerardine O' Flynn: Production Finance Manager Film4 & Comedy

Fiona Lamptey: Production Manager

Geraldine Atlee: Head of Legal & Business Affairs, Film4 and Scripted

Harry Dixon: Head of Legal and Business Affairs

Louise Long: Senior Legal & Business Affairs Executive

Don McNicholl: Legal & Business Affairs Executive

Lyndsey Honour: Publicity Manager

Hannah Saunders: Brand and Marketing Executive

Celine Coulson: Executive Assistant

Ben Coren: Development Coordinator

Pollyanna Cheung: Assistant to Deputy Head of Film4 and Commissioning Executive

Amy Collin: Commercial and Brand Strategy Assistant

Hannah Price: Development Assistant Intern

Film4 have worked on Films including The Iron Lady, The Inbetweeners Movie, Attack the Block and Slumdog Millionaire.

A future film Film4 will be working on is the sequel to the first Inbetweeners Movie; Inbetweeners 2.

A large percentage of the Films Film4 works on are British Film; this means that the films have British Narrative and Actors/Actresses because Film4 is a British organisation attempting to compete with the American Film Industry.