2008 benefactors
EM Media
EM Media is the Regional Screen Agency for England's East Midlands. Through investment and support, service delivery and brokerage, EM Media aims to identify, grow and support the region's dynamic talent pool, develop the range and opportunities for consumption of and engagement with media and digital product and grow the cultural and economic infrastructure of the East Midlands.
EM Media is a partner in Warp X, the pioneering digital film studio established to revitalise low-budget British film-making, an initiative of UK Film Council, Film4, Screen Yorkshire, Optimum Releasing and EM Media.
EM Media has to date co-financed 18 feature films with ERDF finance. EM Media's slate of films in production, forthcoming and current releases include: Summer (Sixteen Films 2007), suspense thriller Hush (Warp X 2007), Donkey Punch (Warp X 2007), Complete History (Warp X 2007), horror Mum and Dad (2AM Films 2007), Better Things (Mascot Pictures 2008), And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Number 9 Films 2007), Magicians (Intermedia Films 2007), Control (NorthSee 2007), This is England (Warp Films 2007). Other feature investments include Brothers of the Head (Potboiler Productions 2006), A Cock and Bull Story (Revolution Films 2006), Dead Man's Shoes (Warp Films 2005), One For the Road (One for the Road Productions 2004), Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (Slate Films 2003) and Anita and Me (Starfield Productions 2002).
Image.net
Image.net is the ultimate choice for distributing your digital publicity and marketing material to the media, with a rapidly growing community of tens of thousands of registered users worldwide. Most of the world's major media are registered with image.net. For example, Newsweek, Le Monde, The New York Times and the UK's Times.
Scottish Screen
Scottish Screen is the national development agency for the screen industries in Scotland. We aim to inspire audiences, support new and existing talent and businesses, educate young people, and promote Scotland as a creative place to make great films, award-winning television and world renowned digital entertainment.
Film4
Film4 is Channel 4 Television's feature film division. Headed by Tessa Ross, the company develops and co-finances films and is known for working with the most innovative talent in the UK, both new and established. Film4 has built an enviable reputation for developing and financing the defining British films of the last quarter of a century - films like MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDERETTE, TRAINSPOTTING, SHALLOW GRAVE, EAST IS EAST, MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, TOUCHING THE VOID, ROAD TO GUANTANAMO, VENUS, THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, THIS IS ENGLAND and JOE STRUMMER - THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN.
Film4's host of distinctive new films includes David Mackenzie's HALLAM FOE, Sarah Gavron's BRICK LANE, Anand Tucker's AND WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER?, Asif Kapadia's FAR NORTH, Martin McDonagh's IN BRUGES, Lenny Abrahamson's GARAGE, Duane Hopkins' BETTER THINGS, Harmony Korine's MR LONELY, a new Mike Leigh film, Ken Loach's THESE TIMES, Michael Winterbottom's GENOVA, and Sharon Maguire's INCENDIARY.
Aramid Capital Partners
Aramid Capital Partners sources potential investment opportunities for the Aramid Entertainment Fund, focusing on providing finance in three main areas, that of discounting tax credits, bridge and mezzanine gap financing.
Aramid Capital Partners comprises three of the film and television industry's key structured financiers: Future Capital Partners, Screen Capital International and Stonehenge Capital. Between them they have executed almost US$10 billion of film financing over the last decade.
Aramid Capital Partners' management team is headed by Simon Fawcett, Chief Executive, formerly the finance director of Pathé, who has over thirteen years' experience in television and film financing together with Tim Levy, the founder of Future Capital Partners, David Molner, the founder of Screen Capital, and Thomas Adamek, the President of Stonehenge Capital.
3 Mills Studios
Discover 3 Mills Studios - London's largest studio complex.
Set on an historical and secure 20-acre island site close to Soho, facilities include 15 stages, rehearsal rooms, production offices, prop stores, workshops, dressing and make up rooms and much more.
This unique niche studio has been discovered by some of the industry's most successful independent filmmakers, including Danny Boyle, Tim Burton, David Cronenberg, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh and Michael Winterbottom, as well as a wide range of clients from television, theatre, advertising and music.
Feature credits include 28 WEEKS LATER, EASTERN PROMISES, SUNSHINE, BRICK LANE, IT'S A FREE WORLD, HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE, ENDURING LOVE, GREEN STREET, Tim Burton's CORPSE BRIDE and CODE 46.
Warner Bros. Entertainment
WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. is a fully integrated, broad-based entertainment company and a global leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing and marketing of all forms of entertainment and their related businesses. Warner Bros., a Time Warner company, stands at the forefront of every aspect of the entertainment industry from feature films to television, home entertainment/DVD, animation, product/brand licensing and interactive entertainment.
Warner Bros. Entertainment UK brings together all of the UK entertainment business units: Theatrical, Home Video, Home Entertainment, Television and Consumer Products. Warner Bros. has long been an important part of the UK film industry, going right back to the 1930's when it first set up a UK film production/distribution Co. Recent British films include all those in the Harry Potter Series, (the Latest being HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX), BATMAN BEGINS and CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY.
Wiggin
Wiggin are experts in the constantly evolving field of media law. They focus exclusively on film, music, sport, gaming, technology, broadcast and publishing. Offering highly personalised relationships with all clients Wiggin address the complex legal challenges that the media sector presents with the knowledge, experience, innovation and confidence to deliver straightforward and genuine advice, motivated only by the need to achieve the best possible outcomes for all clients.
