2008 Benefactors

Film4

Film4 is Channel 4 Television's feature film division. Headed by Tessa Ross, the company develops and co-finances films and is known for working with the most innovative talent in the UK, both new and established. Film4 has built an enviable reputation for developing and financing the defining British films of the last quarter of a century - films like MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDERETTE, TRAINSPOTTING, SHALLOW GRAVE, EAST IS EAST, MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, TOUCHING THE VOID, ROAD TO GUANTANAMO, VENUS, THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, THIS IS ENGLAND and JOE STRUMMER - THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN.

Film4's host of distinctive new films includes David Mackenzie's HALLAM FOE, Sarah Gavron's BRICK LANE, Anand Tucker's AND WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER?, Asif Kapadia's FAR NORTH, Martin McDonagh's IN BRUGES, Lenny Abrahamson's GARAGE, Duane Hopkins' BETTER THINGS, Harmony Korine's MR LONELY, a new Mike Leigh film, Ken Loach's THESE TIMES, Michael Winterbottom's GENOVA, and Sharon Maguire's INCENDIARY.

3 Mills Studios

Discover 3 Mills Studios - London's largest studio complex.

Set on an historical and secure 20-acre island site close to Soho, facilities include 15 stages, rehearsal rooms, production offices, prop stores, workshops, dressing and make up rooms and much more.

This unique niche studio has been discovered by some of the industry's most successful independent filmmakers, including Danny Boyle, Tim Burton, David Cronenberg, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh and Michael Winterbottom, as well as a wide range of clients from television, theatre, advertising and music.
Feature credits include 28 WEEKS LATER, EASTERN PROMISES, SUNSHINE, BRICK LANE, IT'S A FREE WORLD, HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE, ENDURING LOVE, GREEN STREET, Tim Burton's CORPSE BRIDE and CODE 46.

Pathé

Pathé has a major presence within the UK film industry, operating as a fully integrated studio. It is involved in all aspects of film-making, from development and production through to international sales and distribution.

Wiggin

Wiggin are experts in the constantly evolving field of media law. They focus exclusively on film, music, sport, gaming, technology, broadcast and publishing. Offering highly personalised relationships with all clients Wiggin address the complex legal challenges that the media sector presents with the knowledge, experience, innovation and confidence to deliver straightforward and genuine advice, motivated only by the need to achieve the best possible outcomes for all clients.

Aramid Capital Partners

Aramid Capital Partners sources potential investment opportunities for the Aramid Entertainment Fund, focusing on providing finance in three main areas, that of discounting tax credits, bridge and mezzanine gap financing.

Aramid Capital Partners comprises three of the film and television industry's key structured financiers: Future Capital Partners, Screen Capital International and Stonehenge Capital. Between them they have executed almost US$10 billion of film financing over the last decade.

Aramid Capital Partners' management team is headed by Simon Fawcett, Chief Executive, formerly the finance director of Pathé, who has over thirteen years' experience in television and film financing together with Tim Levy, the founder of Future Capital Partners, David Molner, the founder of Screen Capital, and Thomas Adamek, the President of Stonehenge Capital.

Image.net

Image.net is the ultimate choice for distributing your digital publicity and marketing material to the media, with a rapidly growing community of tens of thousands of registered users worldwide. Most of the world's major media are registered with image.net. For example, Newsweek, Le Monde, The New York Times and the UK's Times.

EM Media

EM Media is the Screen Agency for the East Midlands region of England.
EM Media secures finance, nurtures talent, invests in success and stimulates growth and innovation across the digital content sector.
EM Media has invested in 31 British feature films. These include: Nick Whitfield’s Skeletons, Karl Golden’s Pelican Blood, Justin Molotnikov’s Crying With Laughter, Samantha Morton’s The Unloved, Brian Percival’s A Boy Called Dad, Alexis Dos Santos’s Unmade Beds, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Bronson, Kenny Glenaan’s Summer, Duane Hopkins’ Better Things, Steven Sheil’s Mum and Dad, Jeanie Finlay’s Goth Cruise, Shane Meadows’ award-winning This Is England and Anton Corbijn’s award-winning Control. EM Media has recently approved investment in Jim Loach’s Oranges and Sunshine.
EM Media has co-financed the first six films from Warp X, the low-budget digital studio including Bunny & the Bull, She, A Chinese and All Tomorrow’s Parties.
EM Media has also financed games and virtual worlds including the soon to be launched Space Ark and Hunter’s World, as well as mixm8, Beauty Salon, Geon: Emotions, Bugs of War, Manifest and Spell Souls.
Visit www.em-media.org.uk.

Warner Bros. Entertainment

WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. is a fully integrated, broad-based entertainment company and a global leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing and marketing of all forms of entertainment and their related businesses. Warner Bros., a Time Warner company, stands at the forefront of every aspect of the entertainment industry from feature films to television, home entertainment/DVD, animation, product/brand licensing and interactive entertainment.

Warner Bros. Entertainment UK brings together all of the UK entertainment business units: Theatrical, Home Video, Home Entertainment, Television and Consumer Products. Warner Bros. has long been an important part of the UK film industry, going right back to the 1930's when it first set up a UK film production/distribution Co. Recent British films include all those in the Harry Potter Series, (the Latest being HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX), BATMAN BEGINS and CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY.

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Metrodome

Metrodome is one of the leading independent film distributors in the UK. They acquire films and product for exploitation in cinemas, on DVD and via broadcast and are looking to build on recent successes and expand into new areas of business. Metrodome has earned a reputation for acquiring and releasing quality independent films that challenge our audiences and provoke the critics – from box office smash hits like Monster and Donnie Darko to recent box office success and Academy Award winning The Counterfeiters. Their highly anticipated slate for 2009 boasts a vast array of strong titles including the Danish smash hit Flame and Citron (January), the Michael Winterbottom directed Genova (March/ April tbc) starring Colin Firth, the award winning thriller 50 Dead Men Walking (May tbc) starring Ben Kingsley and Jim Sturgess, five time Bifa nominated Brit flick Shifty (April tbc), quality French drama Mark of an Angel and Bifa nominated festival hit documentary Three Miles North of Molkom. Previous releases include Bafta nominated Shooting Dogs, Deepa Mehta’s Academy Award nominated Water, Academy Award nominated war epic Days of Glory and Sherrybaby starring Maggie Gyllenhaal. They also released Sarah Polley’s Away From Her starring Julie Christie for which Julie won a Golden Globe for her performance and received an Academy Award and Bafta nominated for Best Actress. Metrodome continues to engage an ever expanding audience and provide distribution for some of the most invigorating voices in modern cinema.

Thanks also to First Data, Icon, Technicolor and Double D Productions.

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