Monday 1 December 2008

British film institution case study




Kidulthood



The film kidulthood was released March 3rd 2002. The film consists of a stereotypical "gangster" view of a teenage life, situated in London. The film consists of drugs, violence and crime and consequently reveals how it could over take your life and eventually destroy your life or lead to murder.



The producers of the film are Revolver entertainment, specialise in film distribution and DVD releases, however are also known for their multi-award winning movies, one being A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. The company began their success in the Uk 1997 and have distributed several movies since then. They are the 14th largest film distributor and the 20th largest home entertainment publisher in the UK out of 200 hundred labels.




They launched to the Usa in 2007 widering their success throughout the country.

The company revolver entertainment have won many awards for creativity, originality and guerrilla marketing, since2003 till this present day. Revolver entertainment also write books on writing movies, pitching movies and the film business, some of them being :






  • The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood Edward Jay Epstein


  • One Hundred Films and a Funeral: The Life and Death of Polygram Films Michael Kuhn


  • Down and Dirty Pictures

  • Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-drugs-and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Changed Hollywood

  • Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting

  • The Pitch