Benefactors

IMDB

IMDb is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million unique visitors each month. IMDb offers a searchable database of over 1.5 million movies, TV and entertainment programs and over 3.2 million cast and crew members, making it the Web's most comprehensive and authoritative source of information on movies, TV and celebrities. IMDb features include cast lists, photographs, quotes, trivia, reviews, box-office data, celebrity biographies, coverage of film festivals and major events, and the ability for users to watch trailers, clips and thousands of full-length TV episodes and movies for free. IMDb also offers IMDbPro, a site designed specifically for entertainment industry professionals.

Film4

Film4, headed by Tessa Ross, is Channel 4 Television’s feature film division. Film4 develops and co-finances films and is known for working with the most innovative talent in the U.K., whether new or established. Film4 has developed and co-financed many of the most successful UK films of recent years, films like Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours, Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges, Steve McQueen’s Hunger, Mike Leigh’s Another Year, Chris Morris’ Four Lions and Peter Mullan’s NEDS.

Film4’s 2011 releases include Kevin Macdonald’s The Eagle, Richard Ayoade’s Submarine, Joe Cornish’s directorial debut Attack The Block, Ben Palmer’s The Inbetweeners Movie which took over £14.7m in its first week of release, Lone Scherfig’s One Day, Ben Wheatley’s Kill List, Paddy Considine’s debut feature Tyrannosaur, Miranda July’s The Future, Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights and Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea. Future releases include Phyllida Lloyd’s The Iron Lady, Steve McQueen’s Shame and Carol Morley’s Dreams of a Life.

Film4’s current productions include Pawel Pawlikowski’s The Woman In The Fifth, Walter Salles’ On The Road, Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio, Roger Michell’s Hyde Park on Hudson, Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin and Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers.

For further information visit www.film4.com/productions

Film London

Film London is the capital's film and media agency. Film London sustains, promotes and develops London as a major international film-making and film cultural capital. This includes all the screen industries based in London - film, television, video, commercials and new interactive media.

Independent Talent

Lee & Thompson

Lee & Thompson advises on all aspects of the media industry. It represents a variety of the world’s most highly acclaimed musicians, actors, directors, producers, television personalities and sports people and the entrepreneurs and companies that work with them. In respect of film, we reassure our clients with a highly personalised relationship offering expertise at every stage of the process from development, financing and production of theatrical feature films through to worldwide exploitation on multiple platforms. Our involvement goes beyond strict legal advice; amongst other things, we help producers to raise and structure the finance for their films, making connections between our independent producer clients and our extensive network of production finance clients and contacts.

Lionsgate

Momentum

Alliance Films, Inc. is one of the top five international independent filmed entertainment companies in the world. A leading multinational distributor, co-financier and producer of filmed entertainment, its member companies, AllianceFilms and AllianceVivaFilm(Canada);Momentum Pictures (UK) and Aurum Productions (Spain), offer integrated delivery of content in all media. On the production front, strategic partnerships include: a feature film co-production and acquisitions deal with Italy’s Medusa Film; a first-look deal with Iain Canning and Emile Sherman’s See-Saw Films, which yielded the lauded feature THE KING'S SPEECH and upcoming SHAME by Steve McQueen; the production joint venture with IM Global, Automatik run by Brian Kavanaugh-Jones; and a five-picture deal with PARANORMAL ACTIVITY producers Oren Peli, Jason Blum and Steven Schneider with titles that include the recent James Wan release INSIDIOUS and Barry Levinson’s upcoming THE BAY.

RSM Tenon

Sher talent on its own is not enough to be a success in the film industry. You also need a boundless capacity for hard work and the right support around you at a time of dramatic change within the industry.  That’s something we know all about. At RSM Tenon we have a highly experienced film team that brings together a unique blend of professional services and film expertise. Services offered by the Media Division include:
- Structuring advice for filmmakers on co-productions and Cultural Test British qualifying films in Europe and elsewhere
- Helping maximize the UK Film Tax Credit available to British qualifying films
- Assistance with monitoring, compliance and liaison with DCMS and HMRC
- Auditors and accountant’s reports, letters of comfort to financiers
- Assistance with government sponsored incentives such as EIS and its application to film
- Valuation of film rights
- Helping maximize UK tax benefits on film royalties
- Distribution and film royalty audits
- Advice on alternative sources of funding, including equity, soft money and bank gap for film finances
- Tax advice regarding corporate structures, both UK and overseas For more information please contact Stephen Bristow, mailto:stephen.bristow@rsmtenon.com or go to www.rsmtenon.com