Commissioner Fact File for Film 4

Film 4 is a film production company that has gone through a number of guises since it's inception, along with channel 4  in 1982. It is a company that is independent and uniquely British. Some of the films in which were shown by film 4 in previous decades such as: My beautiful launderette which was between the years 1982 and 1991,  Four weddings and a funeral which was produced between the years 1992 and 1997, Charlotte Gray was between the years 1998 and 2000 and 24 hour party people which is based on a true story which was produced through they years 2002 and 2008 and lastly, four lions which was produced in the present time period which was the 2010's.

Ethos are a set of believes or a way of doing something. Some of Film 4's ethos are: to invest around £500,000 per film, at a rate of roughly around 20 films per year. Another ethos for film 4 is to develop (new) british talent and to be seen as a leader when it comes to innovation.

Some of the themes that are involved with film 4 are themes like: drugs, violence, racism, sexual abuse, gangs and many others. These themes also relate to a british social realism type of film such as Kidulthood, Fish Tank and This is England.

Film 4 is owned by channel 4 ever since film 4 was first created way back in 1982 and have shared a partnership ever since. Film 4 are specialists in co-production and contribute between 15 and 25 percent of an independent film's budget. However, film 4 is not the only company that Channel 4 own the other channels that channel 4 owns are channels such as; More 4, E4 and Channel 4 HD. Channel 4 is also a british terrestrial TV channel. Channel 4 also owns it's own DVD distribution.

Below are some trailers of british social realism films which was showed by Film4 productions after it was released on box office.

                                                           This Is England Trailer

                                                           Four Lions Trailer

                                                           Adulthood Trailer

All of these films were shown at a certain point on Film4 channel and still shows some of these even up until present day.

The first film in which was produced by film4 was a film called Walters which was directed by Stephen Frears which was released in 1982. Film4 up to today are still a successful company due to the money they make by showing movies on their change; and bringing a larger audience to watch their film which would make film4 more popular and more of a success than it originally was.