Ideally, we would like to choose the most respectible distribution company that could provide the best service to our film whilst being realistic. There are large companies, such as...
- 20th Century Fox (Avatar, Die Hard, Ice Age)
- Warner Brothers (Harry Potter, The Hangover, Terminator)
- Universal (The Mummy, Hell Boy, Fogetting Sarah Marshall)
Taking this into consideration, it's obvious that we are likely going to require a distribution company, which specialises in films such as ours; films being produced low budget, by first time directors. Such companies exist!
Take for instance the 2008 film 'Shifty', directed by Eran Creevey. This was funded by 'Film London Microwave' (Which in turn is funded by the UK Film Council and the BBC), for £100,000.
However, a small 10 year old independant distribution company called 'Metrodome Distribution' actually gave Shifty around £100,000 to distribute the films, to show it in both on the Cinema screen and DVD! Metrodome Distribution often help out independant production companies to help distribute the company, often focusing on contemporary British films. (Here are a selected few...)
Whilst there are other small distribution companies that distributed similiar films to ours (posted numerous times on the blog), such as Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment.. etc; we feel that Metrodome Distribution would be more than suitable as it is predominantly British.
Whilst having a film, such as ours with a projected budget of <£100 (Take a look at a film distributed by Kaleidoscope Entertainment, called 'Colin' !!) is unlikley to attract attention of enormous conglomorates that could spend an unthinkable amount on distribution; realisticly.. we have to choose a company that specialises in distributing low budet films such as ours. So, if we had the change to choose a distribution company, we would choose Metrodome Distribution!
