Warp is one of the most foremost and respected independent company. It is based in London and Sheffield and has now expanded to Melbourne. In 1989 it was founded as a shop and record label, and since then has grown and progressed into being the platform for innovate and boundary-breaking talent. It has several different independent companies; warp records, warp music videos and commercials and warp films. Our key focus is off course warp films, which was launched in 2001, and has helped lead the way in exciting and original film making. The company has been behind several award wining films (yes these have even included several baftas!). A few examples are; This is England (2006, directed by Shane Meadows), Donkey Punch (2008, directed by Oliver Blackburn and David Bloom) and Four Lions (2010, directed by Chris Morris). Warp films, first film was 'My Wrongs #8245-8249 & 117' (2002), it was directed by Chris Morris, and won the best short film award at the bafta's in 2003 (yes pretty impressive i think!). Warp is closely associated with Chris Cunningham, who was responsible for the Aphex Twins videos (example = 'Come to Daddy, 1997'). However in 2008 it also become in collaboration with Australian film director Madman Entertainment, with the first film to come from this collaboration being the Australian drama 'Snowtown'.
Vertigo - Film Company and DistributorVertigo films, is both a British film production and film distribution company. It was founded in 2002, by producers Allan Niblo (example of his work is 'Human Traffic') and James Richardson (example of his work is 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang'), director Nick Lowe (example of his work is 'Goodbye Charlie Bright'), disruptor Rupert Preston (example of his work is 'Bride of Chucky) and entrepreneur Rob Morgan. The company was originally formed for the purpose of producing and disrupting two films; 'The Football Factory' (2004) and 'Its all gone Pete Tong' (2004). Its current goal is to produce and distribute four films per year; one of the 2011 films was a children's film 'Horrid Henry the Movie' which came in at number 5 in the U.K. box office, at £1.3 million (however was knocked down to number 7, but i still think that's something to shout about!)
Momentum films, is sometimes known as Alliance Films UK, is one of most leading independent motion picture distributors in the UK and Ireland, and was founded in 2000. Approximately per year it releases 20 theatrical films. In February 2011, it won 8 bafta awards (this is more than any other UK distributor), 7 of these awards went to 'The Kings Speech' (2010) and 1 to 'The girl with the dragon tattoo' (2005). A few examples of their most successful theatrical releases are; 'The Kings speech' (2010), 'Amelie' (2001), 'The Young Victoria' (2009), 'Just Friends' (2005) and 'P.S. I Love You' (2007).
Studio Canal is an french-based production and distribution company, the company is part of the Canal+ group. The company was founded by Pierre Lescure in 1988, with an original function to focus on French and European productions, however in the later stages it also made links with American production companies. Some examples of Studio Canals most notable productions from the early stages are; 'Free Willy' (1993), 'Terminator 2 : Judgement day' (1991) and 'JFK' (1991), in the days of these films the company was known as Le Studio Canal +. Studio canal has a formal distribution unit in the UK, France and Germany, however in other countries it relies on other studios, (an example in America is the company Image Entertainment). Since 2011 Studio Canal has also handled home entertainment distribution of 550 titles, and the company has the third-largest film library in the world.
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