Production, Distribution & Exhibition

Pico Pictures is a London-based production company who have made 13 award-winning short films since 2008. They produced a short film called School Portrait in 2011, produced for £200 and released instantly online. The film was picked as a Vimeo Staff Pick and was featured in news articles in Huffington Post, Gizmodo, The Metro, The Evening Standard plus 100s of other blogs. The short film had a million views in ten days.

Now the films has been shortlisted for a 2012 Webby (an internet awards scheme) in the viral category. Vimeo have also now selected the film for their screening as SXSW.

The company would be perfect to produce our short film as they produce both low and high budget short and feature films. They are a small-time production company and are London-based.

Brass Moustache is another independent  UK production company. They write and produce in house and accept thematic commissions. It is made up of professional producers, editors, directors and writers working at a high level in the UK. They collaborate to write and produce factual and fictitious short films, many of the short films they have produced have been featured on the "Editor's Pick" homepage of the Independent newspaper.

Artificial Eye is a UK distribution company that has been distribution European and World cinema since 1976. They release mainly theatrical films (around 20 a year) as well as DVD and Blu-ray titles (around 30 a year). This is on top of purely digital releases via Curzon Home Cinema, Sky Box Office and Sky Player, iTunes, Virgin Filmflex, Lovefilm and other platforms. Its library includes more than 300 titles overall.

Artificial Eye has released more winners of the Cannes Palme d'Or than any other UK distributor, including films such as We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011), Winter's Bone (2010) and more recently The Great Beauty (2013).

Our short film, if exhibited at cinemas, would be most likely to be seen in a Curzon or Picturehouse cinema before a showing of a feature film. These two cinema chains are both more likely to be showing indie films and are known to often show short films before feature films.

It is more likely that to start our short film would have its debut showing at a short film festival, where it would then be picked up by a cinema chain who wanted to exhibit it. Small-time short film festivals in London include the Soho Short Film Festival, and the London Short film festival. This is as well as showing in the shorts sections of the London Sundance Film Festival and the BFI Film Festival. Short films can be entered into the festival and then are picked by a board as part of the selection to be shown. This is from where short films collect awards and people choose to exhibit them in their cinemas.

TB