Film4 Productions

Film4 Productions
Formerly	Channel Four Films; FilmFour International
Type	Film production company
Founded	1982
Headquarters	London, England, United Kingdom
Number of locations	2
Key people	Tessa Ross
Products	Motion Pictures
Owner	Channel Four Television Corporation ; British state

Film4 Productions is a British film production company owned by Channel Four Television Corporation. The company has been responsible for backing many films made in the United Kingdom. The company's first production was Walter, directed by Stephen Frears, which was released in 1982. It is especially known for its gritty, kitchen sink-style films and period drama.

History[]

Prior to 1998, the company was identified as Channel Four Films or FilmFour International. Later, the outfit was re-branded as FilmFour, to coincide with the launch of a new Digital TV channel of the same name. The company cut its budget and staff significantly in 2002, due to mounting losses, and was reintegrated into the drama department of Channel 4. The name "Film4 Productions" was introduced in 2006 to tie in with the relaunch of the FilmFour broadcast channel as Film4.^{[citation needed]}

Tessa Ross was head of both Film4 and Channel 4 drama from 2002 to 2014.^[1]^[2]

Selected list of productions[]

This is a list of the most notable productions by Film4.

12 Years a Slave (co-production with Regency Enterprises, River Road Entertainment and Plan B)
127 Hours (co-production with Pathé, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Everest Entertainment, Cloud Eight Films, Darlow Smithson Productions and Warner Bros. Pictures)
20,000 Days on Earth (co-production with British Film Institute)
24 Hour Party People (co-production with United Artists, UK Film Council, Revolution Films and Baby Cow Productions)
45 Years (co-production with British Film Institute)
'71 (co-production with British Film Institute, Screen Yorkshire, Creative Scotland and Warp Films)
A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (co-production with Warp Films, Screen Yorkshire, EM Media, Madman Entertainment and UK Film Council)
A Field in England
A Life Less Ordinary (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and 20th Century Fox)
A Most Wanted Man (co-production with FilmNation Entertainment)
A Month in the Country (co-production with Euston Films)
A Room with a View (co-production with Merchant Ivory Productions and Goldcrest Films)
A Zed and Two Noughts (co-production with British Film Institute and Artificial Eye)
Amy (co-production with Universal Music, Playmaker Films & Krishwerkz Entertainment)
American Animals
American Honey (co-production with Parts & Labor, Pulse Films, ManDown Pictures, British Film Institute, and Maven Pictures)
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (co-production with British Film Institute)
And When Did You Last See Your Father? (co-production with UK Film Council, EM Media, Tiger Aspect, Bórd Scannán na hÉireann/Irish Film Board and European Development Fund)
Angels & Insects (co-production with The Samuel Goldwyn Company)
Another Year (co-production with Thin Man Films)
Attack the Block (co-production with Big Talk Productions, StudioCanal and UK Film Council)
Backbeat (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment)
Beast (co-production with British Film Institute)
Beautiful Thing
Been So Long (co-production with Netflix and British Film Institute)
Bent (co-production with Arts Council of England)
Berberian Sound Studio (co-production with Warp X Productions, Screen Yorkshire and UK Film Council)
Bhaji on the Beach
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (co-production with TriStar Pictures)
Birthday Girl (co-production with Miramax Films, Mirage Enterprises and HAL Films)
Black Sea (co-production with Focus Features)
Blue (co-production with BBC Radio 3 and Arts Council of Great Britain)
Brassed Off (co-production with Miramax Films and Prominent Features)
Bread and Roses
Brothers of the Head (co-production with Screen East and EM Media)
Buena Vista Social Club (co-production with Road Movies Filmproduktion and Arte)
Buffalo Soldiers (co-production with Good Machine and Miramax Films)
Bunny and the Bull (co-production with Warp X Productions, Wild Bunch, Optimum Releasing, Screen Yorkshire and UK Film Council)
Career Girls
Carla's Song (co-production with Glasgow Film Office and Televisión Española)
Carol (co-production with Number 9 Films and Killer Films)
Catch Me Daddy (co-production with British Film Institute and Screen Yorkshire)
Charlotte Gray (co-production with Ecosse Films and Warner Bros.)
Christmas Carol: The Movie (co-production with UK Film Council)
Cold War (co-production with British Film Institute and MK2)
Comrades (co-production with now-defunct National Film Finance Corporation)
Croupier (co-production with Arte and Westdeutscher Rundfunk)
Cuban Fury (co-production with British Film Institute)
Damage (co-production with Le Studio Canal+ and Canal+)
Dance with a Stranger
Dancer in the Dark (co-production with Canal+, France 3 Cinéma, Zentropa and Fine Line Features)
Dancing at Lughnasa (co-production with Sony Pictures Classics, Bórd Scannán na hÉireann/Irish Film Board, Raidió Teilifís Éireann and Capitol Films)
Dead Man's Shoes
Death and the Maiden (co-production with Capitol Films, Canal+, TF1 and Fine Line Features)
Death to Smoochy (co-production with Senator Film and Warner Bros.)
Deep Water
Dirt Music (co-production with ScreenWest)
Disobedience (co-production with FilmNation Entertainment and Element Pictures)
Dog Eat Dog (co-production with Tiger Aspect Productions)
Dogma (produced by View Askew)
Donkey Punch (co-production with EM Media, Madman Entertainment, Screen Yorkshire, UK Film Council and Warp X Productions)
Drowning by Numbers
East Is East
Eat the Rich (co-production with Michael White)
Elizabeth (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Meridian and Working Title Films)
Enduring Love (co-production with Pathé, UK Film Council and Ingenious Film Partners)
Ex Machina (co-production with Universal Pictures and DNA Films)
Everybody's Talking About Jamie (co-production with New Regency Pictures, 20th Century Fox and Warp Films)
Fever Pitch
Fighting with My Family (co-production with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, WWE Studios and Seven Bucks Productions)
For Those in Peril (co-production with Warp X Productions)
Four Lions (co-production with Warp Films, Wild Bunch and Optimum Releasing)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Working Title Films)
Frank
Franklyn (co-production with Recorded Picture Company, HanWay Films and UK Film Council)
Free Fire (co-production with British Film Institute)
Funny Games (co-production with Warner Independent Pictures and Tartan Films)
Gabriel and Me (co-production with Pathé, Isle of Man Film and UK Film Council)
Gangster No. 1 (co-production with Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Road Movies Filmproduktion and BSkyB)
Gregory's Two Girls
Greed (co-production with Columbia Pictures and Revolution Films)
Hallam Foe (co-production with Ingenious Film Partners, Glasgow Film Office, Scottish Screen and Sigma Films)
Happy-Go-Lucky (co-production with Ingenious Film Partners and Summit Entertainment)
Hidden City
High Hopes
High-Rise (co-production with Recorded Picture Company, HanWay Films and the British Film Institute)
Hilary and Jackie
Holy Smoke! (co-production with Miramax Films)
How I Live Now (co-production with British Film Institute, Magnolia Pictures and Passion Pictures)
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (co-production with UK Film Council)
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (co-production with HanWay Films, See-Saw Films and Little Punk)
How to Build a Girl (co-production with Tango Entertainment, British Film Institute, Monumental Pictures, Protagonist Pictures)
Howards End
Hunger
Hush (co-production with Warp X, Pathé, Screen Yorkshire, UK Film Council and Optimum Releasing)
Hyde Park on Hudson (co-production with Daybreak Pictures and Focus Features)
In Bruges (co-production with Focus Features)
In the Shadow of the Moon (co-production with Discovery Films and Passion Pictures)
Institute Benjamenta (co-production with Pandora Film)
Invincible (co-production with Fine Line Features)
Jimmy's Hall
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Journeyman
K-PAX (co-production with Universal Pictures and Intermedia Films)
Kill List (co-production with UK Film Council, Warp X, Screen Yorkshire and Rook Films)
Ladybird, Ladybird
Last Night in Soho (co-production with Focus Features and Working Title Films)
Late Night Shopping (co-production with Scottish Screen and Glasgow Film Office)
Le Week-End
Lean on Pete (co-production with British Film Institute)
Life (co-production with See-Saw Films, Telefilm Canada and Screen Australia)
Life Is Sweet
London Kills Me (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Working Title Films)
Looking for Eric (co-production with Icon Entertainment International and Wild Bunch)
Lucky Break (co-production with Paramount Pictures and Miramax Films)
Macbeth (co-production with StudioCanal, DMC Film, Anton Capital Entertainment, Creative Scotland and See-Saw Films)
Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence
Mary Magdalene (co-production with Universal Pictures, Porchlight Films, Affirm Films, Columbia Pictures and See-Saw Films^[3])
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Mister Lonely (co-production with Recorded Picture Company)
Mr. Turner (co-production with British Film Institute, Focus Features International and Thin Man Films)
My Beautiful Laundrette (co-production with SAF Productions and Working Title Films)
My Name Is Joe

Neds (co-production with Scottish Screen, UK Film Council and Wild Bunch)
Never Let Me Go (co-production with DNA Films and Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Night on Earth (co-production with JVC Entertainment, Victor Music Industries, Le Studio Canal + and Pandora Film)
Nothing Personal (co-production with Bórd Scannán na hÉireann/Irish Film Board)
Nowhere Boy (co-production with UK Film Council, Ecosse Films and The Weinstein Company)
On the Road (co-production with American Zoetrope, MK2, France Télévisions, Canal+, Ciné+, France 2 Cinéma and Vanguard Films)
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (co-production with UK Film Council)
One Day (co-production with Focus Features, Random House Films and Color Force)
Orphans (co-production with Scottish Arts Council and Glasgow Film Office)
P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
Paris, Texas (co-production with Westdeutscher Rundfunk)
Peter's Friends (co-production with The Samuel Goldwyn Company)
Peterloo (co-production with British Film Institute, Amazon Studios and Thin Man Films)
Prospero's Books (co-production with Canal+, Eurimages, VPRO, NHK, Cineplex Odeon Films and Palace Pictures)
Purely Belter
Queen of Hearts (co-production with Nelson Entertainment, TVS Television and Cinecom)
Raining Stones
Red Monarch (co-production with Goldcrest Films and Enigma Productions)
Remembrance
Riff-Raff
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
Room (co-production with Element Pictures and No Trace Camping)
Saint Maud (co-production with British Film Institute, Escape Plan Productions and StudioCanal)
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (co-production with Working Title Films)
Secrets & Lies (co-production with Ciby 2000)
Series 7: The Contenders (co-production with USA Films)
Seven Psychopaths (co-production with British Film Institute, HanWay Films and CBS Films)
Sexy Beast (Co-production with Kanzaman, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Recorded Picture Company)
Shame (co-production with Fox Searchlight Pictures, UK Film Council, See-Saw Films, HanWay Films and Momentum Pictures/Alliance Films)
Shaun of the Dead (co-production with Big Talk Productions, Working Title Films, StudioCanal, Universal Pictures and Rogue Pictures)
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
Shopping (co-production with Kuzui Enterprises and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment)
Sightseers (co-production with Big Talk Pictures)
Slow West (co-production with the New Zealand Film Commission and See-Saw Films)
Slumdog Millionaire (co-production with Fox Searchlight Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Pathé and Celador Films)
Starred Up (co-production with Creative Scotland, Northern Ireland Screen and Sigma Films)
Stormy Monday (co-production with Atlantic Entertainment Group)
Straightheads (co-production with Ingenious Film Partners and UK Film Council)
Submarine (co-production with Red Hour Films and Warp Films)
Suffragette
Sunshine (co-production with Alliance Atlantis, Eurimages, Telefilm Canada, The Movie Network, Kinowelt, TV2, ORF and Paramount Classics)
The Acid House
The Actors (co-production with Miramax Films and Bórd Scannán na hÉireann/Irish Film Board)
The Baby of Mâcon (co-production with UGC and Canal+)
The Belly of an Architect (co-production with Hemdale Film Corporation)
The Crying Game (co-production with British Screen, Eurotrustees, Nippon Film Development and Finance and Palace Pictures)
The Debt Collector
The Deep Blue Sea (co-production with UK Film Council and Artificial Eye)
The Double (co-production with Alcove Entertainment and British Film Institute)
The Eagle (co-production with Focus Features)
The Emperor's New Clothes
The Favourite (co-production with Fox Searchlight Pictures and Element Pictures)
The Festival (co-production with Entertainment Film Distributors)
The Filth and the Fury (co-production with Jersey Films)
The Future (co-production with Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg)
The Great Bear
The House of Mirth (co-production with Granada Productions, Kinowelt, Arts Council of England, Showtime Networks and The Scottish Arts Council)
The Inbetweeners Movie (co-production with Bwark Productions, Young Films and Entertainment Film Distributors)
The Inbetweeners 2 (co-production with Bwark Productions)
The Iron Lady (co-production with Pathé, UK Film Council and The Weinstein Company)
The King
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (co-production with Element Pictures, Newsparta Films & A24)
The Land Girls (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Gramercy Pictures, Intermedia Films and Canal+)
The Last King of Scotland (co-production with DNA Films and Fox Searchlight Pictures)
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (co-production with Universal Pictures and Tiger Aspect)
The Little Stranger (co-production with Pathé, Canal+ and Element Pictures)
The Lobster (co-production with Irish Film Board, Eurimages, Netherlands Film Fund, British Film Institute, Canal+, Ciné+, CNC, Institut Français, Greek Film Centre, Element Pictures, Scarlet Films, Faliro House, Haut et Court and Lemming Films)
The Look of Love (co-production with StudioCanal UK, Revolution Films and Baby Cow Productions)
The Lovely Bones (co-production with DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures)
The Low Down (co-production with British Screen, Oil Factory and Sleeper Films)
The Madness of King George (co-production with The Samuel Goldwyn Company)
The Motorcycle Diaries
The Navigators (co-production with Road Movies Filmproduktion, Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Arte)
The Neon Bible (co-production with Artificial Eye)
The Personal History of David Copperfield (co-production with FilmNation Entertainment)
The Pillow Book (co-production with Canal+)
The Ploughman's Lunch (co-production with Goldcrest Films and Michael White)
The Pope Must Die (co production with Miramax Films, Palace Pictures and Michael White)
The Red Violin (co-production with New Line Cinema, Lionsgate, Telefilm Canada and CITY-TV)
The Riot Club (co-production with Universal Pictures, British Film Institute, HanWay Films and Pinewood Pictures)
The Selfish Giant (co-production with British Film Institute)
The Scouting Book for Boys (co-production with Celador Films, Screen East and Pathé)
The Spirit of '45
The Stone Roses: Made of Stone (co-production with Warp Films)
The Straight Story (co-production with StudioCanal and Walt Disney Pictures)
The Supergrass (co-production with The Comic Strip and Michael White)
The Woman in the Fifth (co-production with UK Film Council, Canal+, Orange Cinéma Séries and Artificial Eye)
The Woodlanders (co-production with Pathé Productions and Arts Council of England)
This Is England (co-production with UK Film Council, Optimum Releasing, Screen Yorkshire and Warp Films)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (co-production with Fox Searchlight Pictures and Blueprint Pictures)
To Kill a King (co-production with Natural Nylon and HanWay Films)
Touching the Void (co-production with Channel 4, UK Film Council, Darlow Smithson Productions and PBS)
Trainspotting
T2 Trainspotting (co-production with TriStar Pictures, Cloud Eight Films and DNA Films)
Trance (co-production with Pathé, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Cloud Eight Films and Indian Paintbrush)
Trespass Against Us (co-production with Potboiler Productions)
Trojan Eddie (co-production with Bórd Scannán na hÉireann/Irish Film Board)
True History of the Kelly Gang (co-production with Film Victoria and Screen Australia)
Tyrannosaur (co-production with Warp X, Inflammable Films, UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire, EM Media, and Optimum Releasing (as StudioCanal UK))
Under the Skin (co-production with British Film Institute, FilmNation Entertainment, Scottish Screen, Nick Wechsler Productions and A24 Films)
Una (co-production with Bron Studios, Jean Doumanian Productions, and WestEnd Films)
Velvet Goldmine (co-production with Newmarket Capital Group, Miramax Films, Killer Films and Zenith Entertainment)
Venus (co-production with UK Film Council and Miramax Films)
Very Annie Mary (co-production with Canal+)
Walking and Talking (co-production with Miramax Films, Zenith Productions, Pandora Film, Mikado Films (France), Electric, TEAM Communications Group, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Good Machine)
Welcome to Sarajevo (co-production with Miramax Films)
When the Wind Blows (co-production with Kings Road Entertainment)
Widows (co-production with 20th Century Fox, Regency Enterprises and See-Saw Films)
Wish You Were Here
With or Without You (co-production with Miramax Films and Revolution Films)
Wittgenstein (co-production with the British Film Institute)
Wuthering Heights (co-production with HanWay Films, Ecosse Films, UK Film Council, Goldcrest Films and Screen Yorkshire)
You Were Never Really Here (co-production with Why Not Productions, British Film Institute and Page 114)
Zastrozzi, A Romance

References[]

^ Gibson, Owen. "Interview: Tessa Ross". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
^ Plunkett, John. "Channel 4 boss Tessa Ross appointed chief executive of the National Theatre". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
^ Kay, Jeremey (21 August 2017). "Rooney Mara drama 'Mary Magdalene' held back for next year's awards season". Screen International. Retrieved 21 August 2017.

External links[]

Film4 Productions

[1] Gibson, Owen. "Interview: Tessa Ross". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 February 2016.

[2] Plunkett, John. "Channel 4 boss Tessa Ross appointed chief executive of the National Theatre". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 February 2016.

[3] Kay, Jeremey (21 August 2017). "Rooney Mara drama 'Mary Magdalene' held back for next year's awards season". Screen International. Retrieved 21 August 2017.

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Formerly	Channel Four Films FilmFour International
Type	Film production company
Founded	1982
Headquarters	London, England, United Kingdom
Number of locations	2
Key people	Tessa Ross
Products	Motion Pictures
Owner	Channel Four Television Corporation British state