Evaluation Task - 03 - Who would distribute my product?

To find a production company that is likely to distribute our thriller, I looked at films, that are similar to ours and so found some possible companies, who could successfully distribute our thriller: 

The perfect film production company for our film would be "Universal Pictures". They have done movies like "Red Dragon" and "American Psycho", which are very similar to our thriller as they include black humoured elements and are mainly focused on the psycho- and sociopathic serial killers. As "Universal Pictures" is distributing movies all over the world, working with them could bring us out of the British Independent Genre and would help us entering the global market. Moreover Universal is both horizontal and vertical integrated, which is a massive bonus as it avoids key cost for marketing, advertising and distribution.

However their are quiet a few reasons why this company or other big American companies wouldn't distribute my film.  Firstly I'm an inexperienced first-time  movie maker and "Universal Pictures" more likely works with experienced film-makers, who already have made some movies and were successful. Although our product includes the successfully pre-sold cannibal element, we have no well known actors or a bankable star, like Anthony Hopkins, to strongly emphasize sell these elements to the audience. Moreover our product is a low budget independent film and "Universal Pictures" or other big film companies rather doing two very high budget blockbusters in a year than thousand low budget independent movies. So "Universal Pictures" or other big American companies are not going to make my movie.


So I need to look in England for institutions, who would distribute my thriller. I researched some English produced or co-produced movies similar to ours and ended up with the film company "Film4", which has produced a wide range of movies. They have made black  comedies like "Shawn of the Dead" and "Seven Psychopaths" or psycho-thrillers like "Trance", which wouldn't completely fit with our concept, but because "Film4 productions" has made and distribute a lot of different movies from dramas like "127 Hours" to Comedies like "Happy-go-lucky", I'm confident that they will distribute my film.  Film4 has also produced and distributed low budget independent films as my film is ("A Field In England). Moreover Film4 is often working together with big American institutions, which could fundamentally help us to get in contact with American distributers if our movie was a success in the UK and Europe.
Film4 have their own TV-channel, where they can show their own movies and advertise for them. This would avoid a lot of costs that would have been spent for advertising our movie.
Because our thriller fits into 'Film4's concepts of movies, I'm confident that they will distribute our thriller