# Altitude Film Distribution

Altitude Film Distribution is a British film distribution company, part of the Altitude Film Entertainment group. The parent company was launched in 2012 by Optimum Releasing founder Will Clarke. Altitude Film Entertainment is vertically integrated, with divisions that handle film production, finance and international sales, as well as UK distribution.

## History

Altitude Film Distribution's first release came in 2014 with the Oscar-winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom, which was followed by Fruitvale Station and Abel Ferrara's Welcome to New York. In 2015, Altitude released Ira Sachs' Love Is Strange; a biopic film, Amy, about the British singer Amy Winehouse, which was directed by Asif Kapadia and was released in cinemas on 3 July 2015 in the United Kingdom; international espionage thriller Spooks: The Greater Good; and Narcopolis, a science fiction film. In 2016, they released Bolshoi Babylon, a behind-the-scenes portrait of Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre. On 27 April 2016 it was announced that Altitude would partner with the British Academy Award winning film director Kevin Macdonald, on a new documentary film on Whitney Houston's life and death. It was released in 2018. It's been revealed that the movie is to include rare unheard tracks & performances, with family members & friends to help build up the film through recorded interviews and archive footage.
In 2023, Altitude Film gave limited theatrical releases in the United Kingdom for Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, a universally panned indie slasher film starring Nikolai Leon, Craig David Dowsett and Chris Cordell, and Wham!, a critically praised documentary film about the titular English pop duo consisting of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley.
In 2024, Altitude Film released Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2, the sequel to Blood and Honey, starring Scott Chambers (who is also the film's producer) and Simon Callow. The film divided critics, but many of them considered it an improvement over its predecessor.

## Filmography
### Select cinema releases

| Title | Director | Release date |
| 20 Feet From Stardom | Morgan Neville | 28 March 2014 |
| Fruitvale Station | Ryan Coogler | 6 June 2014 |
| A Promise | Patrice Leconte | 1 August 2014 |
| Welcome To New York | Abel Ferrara | 8 August 2014 |
| Love Is Strange | Ira Sachs | 13 February 2015 |
| White Bird in a Blizzard | Gregg Araki | 6 March 2015 |
| Spooks: The Greater Good | Bharat Nalluri | 8 May 2015 |
| The Connection | Cédric Jimenez | 29 May 2015 |
| Amy | Asif Kapadia | 3 July 2015 |
| Narcopolis | Justin Trefgarne | 29 September 2015 |
| A Nazi Legacy : What Our Father's Did | David Evans | 6 November 2015 |
| Bolshoi Babylon | Nick Read | 8 January 2016 |
| Moonlight | Barry Jenkins | 17 February 2017 |
| The Florida Project | Sean Baker | 10 November 2017 |
| Loveless | Andrey Zvyagintsev | 24 January 2018 |
| Whitney | Kevin Macdonald | 6 July 2018 |
| Monster Family | Holger Tappe | 2 March 2018 |
| Mary and the Witch's Flower | Hiromasa Yonebayashi | 15 May 2018 |
| Final Score | Scott Mann | 4 September 2018 |
| Black '47 | Lance Daly | 28 September 2018 |
| Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans | Dominic Brigstocke | 26 July 2019 |
| Little Monsters | Abe Forsythe | 15 November 2019 |
| The Real Charlie Chaplin | James Middleton, James Spinney | 18 February 2022 |
| Blue Jean | Georgia Oakley | 10 February 2023 |
| Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey | Rhys Frake-Waterfield | 15 February 2023 |
| Wham! | Chris Smith | 27 June 2023 |
| Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 | Rhys Frake-Waterfield | 7 June 2024 |

### Home Entertainment Releases

| Title | Director |
| Flu | Sung-su Kim |
| Sx Tape | Bernard Rose |
| Dracula 3D | Dario Argento |
| All Cheerleaders Die | Lucky McKee, Chris Sivertson |
| Iceberg Slim | Jorge Hinojosa |
| Somm | Jason Wise |
| Narco Cultura | Shaul Schwarz |
| Torment | Jordan Barker |
| The Rendlesham UFO Incident | Daniel Simpson |
| Drew: The Man Behind The Poster | Erik Sharkey |
| Doc of the Dead | Alexandre O. Philippe |
| Wolves | David Hayter |
| Superfast! | Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer |
| Colt 45 | Fabrice Du Welz |
| The Dead 2 | Howard J. Ford, Jonathan Ford |
| Zombie Fight Club | Joe Chien |
| The Match | Jakov Sedlar, Dominik Sedlar |

## Altitude Film Entertainment

Altitude Film Entertainment is a British entertainment company. The company comprises Altitude Film Production led by Will Clarke chairman and joint-CEO with Andy Mayson; Altitude Film Sales with Managing Director Mike Runagall; and Altitude Film Distribution.
On 21 February 2020, 30West acquired a minority stake in Altitude Film Entertainment. On 4 March that same year, Altitude created Altitude Factual, a unit for natural history documentaries.