DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES
Listed below are popular distribution companies that have been known to distribute films from the Social Realism genre
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OPTIMUM RELEASING
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​This is England
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Blind Shaft
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Tyrannosaur
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ARTIFICIAL EYE
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Fish Tank
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Last Resort
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VERVE PICTURES
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​Bullet Boy
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Red Road
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FILM 4
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Happy Go Lucky
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Life is Sweet
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Slumdog Millionaire
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WOODFALL​
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Look Back In Anger
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
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Taste Of Honey
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THE CRITERION COLLECTION
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Kes
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Fishtank
CHANNEL 4 FILMS
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My Name Is Joe
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VERTIGO FILMS
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London to Brighton
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ICON
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Sweet Sixteen
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AXIOM FILMS
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Half Nelson
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STUDIOCANAL UK
is a well known distribution company, formerly known as Optimum Realeasing (1999-2011). The name changed when they were bought by the french film producer StudioCanal, acting as the companies first entry into the internation market of film distribution.
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FILM FOUR
This is a British Digital Television Channel that's owned and operated by Channel 4 Television Corporation. It was founded in 1982 as Film 4 Productions; their first production was Walter in 1982. Originally, a subscription service would cost £5.99 a month which has now risen to £7. Their first film shown was 'What's eating Gilbert Grape?'
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5 POPULARLY DISTRIBUTED
FILMS OF THE GENRE
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The Wrestler
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Boy A
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Gridlock’d
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Submarino
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Made in Britain.
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FORMS OF DISTRIBUTION
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Cinema
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Television
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VHS
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DVD
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Online Streaming
THE CRITERION COLLECTION
This is an American Home Movie Distribution Company founded in 1984, based in New York. They license important classic and contemporary films. They've helped standardize letterbox format for widescreen films and pioneered commentary soundtracks, multi disk sets, special additions and definitive versions of films. Run by CEO is Jonathan B. Turell and President Peter Becker, the continue to create DVDs, Blu-Ray discs and provide Video on Demand to thousands of people through subscriptions.
DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES
Through our research into distribution companies, we learnt what type of companies typically distribute films from
the social realism genre and the history behind how the started off. We also identified what the typical forms of distribution
were aswell as looking at some of the most distributed films in the social realism genre.
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