Our identified film institution is the british company Film Four launched in 1998 to finance, produce and broadcast British films for the British public, but now shows many Hollywood Blockbusters. Currently the companies message is "Great films for Free" this makes it a popular channel as it makes film seem more of an art form this is achieved through pre-film interviews with cast and crew. It has channels on freeview and the major broadcasting networks such as Sky and Virgin Media, but it's main source of finance is its own production company 'Film Four Productions', which over the years has financed many high grossing films such as; Slumdog Millionaire, This is England, Touching the Void.
I feel that this institution is more closely related to the filming we are going to be doing as it shows a much more independent cinema but makes it relevant in mainstream television hitting on cultural and social situations as well as showing international films such as; Battle Royale, City of God, Oldboy. As our genre of film is in the zombie sub-genre the Film Four company represents it with great respect as in 2007 when british zombie-horror 28 Weeks Later was released Film Four had a commited 'Zombie Week' which included interviews and showed classic and modern zombie films.
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