Commissioner Fact File to Film Four

Commissioner Fact File to Film Four

Film Four is an British Terrestrial TV Channel and Film Producer. It has aims to develop new British Talent and be a leader of innovation in the British Film Industry. It has lived through multiple guises such as Channel Four Films or FilmFour International, since it's inception with Channel Four. Film Four has been recognised to have been behind some of the most significant British films of the last twenty seven years. 

The themes shown by Film Four have built a reputation for producing social realist films, referred to as kitchen sink dramas. These films display domestic hardships of working class Britons as realistically as possible, even using untrained actors to achieve setting the tones and great smash mouth openings for British Social Realism films. One theme is aspiration and escape from Fish tank, the main character is an untrained actor and has a heavy accent as the main character tries to escape from her tedious and mundane life into an serene and peaceful way of living. Another key theme is drug abuse and rebellion found in Trainspotting. Where the actors considered doing method acting of actually injecting heroin in themselves to understand the characters better. Film Four is also known for breaking the mould in British Films and push boundaries on controversial themes such as sexuality, drug abuse and sexual violence, which initially the audience respond with shock but later learn to respect the characters and their choices.

Film Four's ethos is to invest in upcoming British Talent, to invest £500,000 per film at around 20 film per year, centred around controversial and/ or British Social Realism themes. To support inter nation independent films as well as British Social Realism