Film4 Productions

**Film4 Productions** is a British movie production company owned by Channel Four Television Corporation. It is called Film4 Productions as it produces movies. Movies are known as films in most countries. The 4 in the name indicates its connection to the TV company Channel Four. The company has supported many movies made in the United Kingdom. The company's first movie was _Walter_, directed by Stephen Frears. It was released in 1982.

## History

Before 1998, the company was called **Channel Four Films** or **FilmFour International**.

In 1998, the name was changed to **FilmFour**. A new Digital TV channel also called FilmFour was created.

In 2006, the name was changed to "Film4 Productions"  to tie in with the relaunch of the FilmFour broadcast channel as Film4.

Tessa Ross was head of both Film4 and Channel 4 drama from 2002 to 2014.

## Selected list of productions

This is a list of the most notable productions by Film4.

- _12 Years a Slave_ (co-production with Regency Enterprises, River Road Entertainment and Plan B)
- _127 Hours_ (co-production with Pathé, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Everest Entertainment, Cloud Eight Films, Darlow Smithson Productions and Warner Bros. Pictures)
- _20,000 Days on Earth_ (co-production with British Film Institute)
- _24 Hour Party People_ (co-production with United Artists, UK Film Council, Revolution Films and Baby Cow Productions)
- _45 Years_ (co-production with British Film Institute)
- _'71_ (co-production with British Film Institute, Screen Yorkshire, Creative Scotland and Warp Films)
- _A Complete History of My Sexual Failures_ (co-production with Warp X Productions, Screen Yorkshire, EM Media, Madman Entertainment and UK Film Council)
- _A Field in England_
- _A Life Less Ordinary_ (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and 20th Century Fox)
- _A Most Wanted Man_ (co-production with FilmNation Entertainment)
- _A Month in the Country_ (co-production with Euston Films)
- _A Room with a View_ (co-production with Merchant Ivory Productions and Goldcrest Films)
- _A Zed and Two Noughts_ (co-production with British Film Institute and Artificial Eye)
- _Amy_ (co-production with Universal Music, Playmaker Films & Krishwerkz Entertainment)
- _American Animals_
- _American Honey_ (co-production with Parts & Labor, Pulse Films, ManDown Pictures, British Film Institute, and Maven Pictures)
- _An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn_ (co-production with British Film Institute)
- _And When Did You Last See Your Father?_ (co-production with UK Film Council, EM Media, Tiger Aspect, Bórd Scannán na hÉireann/Irish Film Board and European Development Fund)
- _Angels & Insects_ (co-production with The Samuel Goldwyn Company)
- _Another Year_ (co-production with Thin Man Films)
- _Attack the Block_ (co-production with Big Talk Productions, StudioCanal and UK Film Council)
- _Backbeat_ (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment)
- _Beast_ (co-production with British Film Institute)
- _Beautiful Thing_
- _Been So Long_ (co-production with Netflix and British Film Institute)
- _Bent_ (co-production with Arts Council of England)
- _Berberian Sound Studio_ (co-production with Warp X Productions, Screen Yorkshire and UK Film Council)
- _Bhaji on the Beach_
- _Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk_ (co-production with TriStar Pictures)
- _Birthday Girl_ (co-production with Miramax Films, Mirage Enterprises and HAL Films)
- _Black Sea_ (co-production with Focus Features)
- _Blue_ (co-production with BBC Radio 3 and Arts Council of Great Britain)
- _Brassed Off_ (co-production with Miramax Films and Prominent Features)
- _Bread and Roses_
- _Brothers of the Head_ (co-production with Screen East and EM Media)
- _Buena Vista Social Club_ (co-production with Road Movies Filmproduktion and Arte)
- _Buffalo Soldiers_ (co-production with Good Machine and Miramax Films)
- _Bunny and the Bull_ (co-production with Warp X Productions, Wild Bunch, Optimum Releasing, Screen Yorkshire and UK Film Council)
- _Career Girls_
- _Carla's Song_ (co-production with Glasgow Film Office and Televisión Española)
- _Carol_ (co-production with Number 9 Films and Killer Films)
- _Catch Me Daddy_ (co-production with British Film Institute and Screen Yorkshire)
- _Charlotte Gray_ (co-production with Ecosse Films and Warner Bros.)
- _Christmas Carol: The Movie_ (co-production with UK Film Council)
- _Cold War_ (co-production with British Film Institute and MK2)
- _Comrades_ (co-production with now-defunct National Film Finance Corporation)
- _Croupier_ (co-production with Arte and Westdeutscher Rundfunk)
- _Cuban Fury_ (co-production with British Film Institute)
- _Damage_ (co-production with Le Studio Canal+ and Canal+)
- _Dance with a Stranger_
- _Dancer in the Dark_ (co-production with Canal+, France 3 Cinéma, Zentropa and Fine Line Features)
- _Dancing at Lughnasa_ (co-production with Sony Pictures Classics, Bórd Scannán na hÉireann/Irish Film Board, Raidió Teilifís Éireann and Capitol Films)
- _Dead Man's Shoes_
- _Death and the Maiden_ (co-production with Capitol Films, Canal+, TF1 and Fine Line Features)
- _Death to Smoochy_ (co-production with Senator Film and Warner Bros.)
- _Deep Water_
- _Dirt Music_ (co-production with ScreenWest)
- _Disobedience_ (co-production with FilmNation Entertainment and Element Pictures)
- _Dog Eat Dog_ (co-production with Tiger Aspect Productions)
- _Dogma_ (produced by View Askew)
- _Donkey Punch_ (co-production with EM Media, Madman Entertainment, Screen Yorkshire, UK Film Council and Warp X Productions)
- _Drowning by Numbers_
- _East Is East_
- _Eat the Rich_ (co-production with Michael White)
- _Elizabeth_ (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Meridian and Working Title Films)
- _Enduring Love_ (co-production with Pathé, UK Film Council and Ingenious Film Partners)
- _Ex Machina_ (co-production with Universal Pictures and DNA Films)
- _Everybody's Talking About Jamie_ (co-production with New Regency Pictures, 20th Century Fox and Warp Films)
- _Fever Pitch_
- _Fighting with My Family_ (co-production with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, WWE Studios and Seven Bucks Productions)
- _For Those in Peril_ (co-production with Warp X Productions)
- _Four Lions_ (co-production with Warp Films, Wild Bunch and Optimum Releasing)
- _Four Weddings and a Funeral_ (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Working Title Films)
- _Frank_
- _Franklyn_ (co-production with Recorded Picture Company, HanWay Films and UK Film Council)
- _Free Fire_ (co-production with British Film Institute)
- _Funny Games_ (co-production with Warner Independent Pictures and Tartan Films)
- _Gabriel and Me_ (co-production with Pathé, Isle of Man Film and UK Film Council)
- _Gangster No. 1_ (co-production with Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Road Movies Filmproduktion and BSkyB)
- _Gregory's Two Girls_
- _Hallam Foe_ (co-production with Ingenious Film Partners, Glasgow Film Office, Scottish Screen and Sigma Films)
- _Happy-Go-Lucky_ (co-production with Ingenious Film Partners and Summit Entertainment)
- _Hidden City_
- _High Hopes_
- _High-Rise_ (co-production with Recorded Picture Company, HanWay Films and the British Film Institute)
- _Hilary and Jackie_
- _Holy Smoke!_ (co-production with Miramax Films)
- _How I Live Now_ (co-production with British Film Institute, Magnolia Pictures and Passion Pictures)
- _How to Lose Friends & Alienate People_ (co-production with UK Film Council)
- _How to Talk to Girls at Parties_ (co-production with HanWay Films, See-Saw Films and Little Punk)
- _How to Build a Girl_ (co-production with Tango Entertainment, British Film Institute, Monumental Pictures, Protagonist Pictures)
- _Howards End_
- _Hunger_
- _Hush_ (co-production with Warp X, Pathé, Screen Yorkshire, UK Film Council and Optimum Releasing)
- _Hyde Park on Hudson_ (co-production with Daybreak Pictures and Focus Features)
- _In Bruges_ (co-production with Focus Features)
- _In the Shadow of the Moon_ (co-production with Discovery Films and Passion Pictures)
- _Invincible_ (co-production with Fine Line Features)
- _Jimmy's Hall_
- _Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten_
- _Journeyman_
- _K-PAX_ (co-production with Universal Pictures and Intermedia Films)
- _Kill List_ (co-production with UK Film Council, Warp X, Screen Yorkshire and Rook Films)
- _Ladybird, Ladybird_
- _Last Night in Soho_ (co-production with Focus Features and Working Title Films)
- _Late Night Shopping_ (co-production with Scottish Screen and Glasgow Film Office)
- _Le Week-End_
- _Lean on Pete_ (co-production with British Film Institute)
- _Life_ (co-production with See-Saw Films, Telefilm Canada and Screen Australia)
- _Life Is Sweet_
- _London Kills Me_ (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Working Title Films)
- _Looking for Eric_ (co-production with Icon Entertainment International and Wild Bunch)
- _Lucky Break_ (co-production with Paramount Pictures and Miramax Films)
- _Macbeth_ (co-production with StudioCanal UK, The Weinstein Company, See-Saw Films and Creative Scotland)
- _Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence_
- _Mary Magdalene_ (co-production with Universal Pictures, Porchlight Films, Affirm Films, Columbia Pictures and See-Saw Films)
- _Me and You and Everyone We Know_
- _Mister Lonely_ (co-production with Recorded Picture Company)
- _Mr. Turner_ (co-production with British Film Institute, Focus Features International and Thin Man Films)
- _My Beautiful Laundrette_ (co-production with SAF Productions and Working Title Films)
- _My Name Is Joe_

- _Neds_ (co-production with Scottish Screen, UK Film Council and Wild Bunch)
- _Never Let Me Go_ (co-production with DNA Films and Fox Searchlight Pictures)
- _Night on Earth_ (co-production with JVC Entertainment, Victor Music Industries, Le Studio Canal + and Pandora Film)
- _Nothing Personal_ (co-production with Bórd Scannán na hÉireann/Irish Film Board)
- _Nowhere Boy_ (co-production with UK Film Council, Ecosse Films and The Weinstein Company)
- _On the Road_ (co-production with American Zoetrope, MK2, France Télévisions, Canal+, Ciné+, France 2 Cinéma and Vanguard Films)
- _Once Upon a Time in the Midlands_ (co-production with UK Film Council)
- _One Day_ (co-production with Focus Features, Random House Films and Color Force)
- _Orphans_ (co-production with Scottish Arts Council and Glasgow Film Office)
- _P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang_
- _Paris, Texas_ (co-production with Westdeutscher Rundfunk)
- _Peter's Friends_ (co-production with The Samuel Goldwyn Company)
- _Peterloo_ (co-production with British Film Institute, Amazon Studios and Thin Man Films)
- _Prospero's Books_ (co-production with Canal+, Eurimages, VPRO, NHK, Cineplex Odeon Films and Palace Pictures)
- _Purely Belter_
- _Queen of Hearts_ (co-production with Nelson Entertainment, TVS Television and Cinecom)
- _Raining Stones_
- _Red Monarch_ (co-production with Goldcrest Films and Enigma Productions)
- _Remembrance_
- _Riff-Raff_
- _Rita, Sue and Bob Too_
- _Room_ (co-production with Element Pictures and No Trace Camping)
- _Sammy and Rosie Get Laid_ (co-production with Working Title Films)
- _Secrets & Lies_ (co-production with Ciby 2000)
- _Series 7: The Contenders_ (co-production with USA Films)
- _Seven Psychopaths_ (co-production with British Film Institute, HanWay Films and CBS Films)
- _Sexy Beast_ (Co-production with Kanzaman, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Recorded Picture Company)
- _Shame_ (co-production with Fox Searchlight Pictures, UK Film Council, See-Saw Films, HanWay Films and Momentum Pictures/Alliance Films)
- _Shaun of the Dead_ (co-production with Big Talk Productions, Working Title Films, StudioCanal, Universal Pictures and Rogue Pictures)
- _She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas_
- _Shopping_ (co-production with Kuzui Enterprises and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment)
- _Sightseers_ (co-production with Big Talk Pictures)
- _Slow West_ (co-production with the New Zealand Film Commission and See-Saw Films)
- _Slumdog Millionaire_ (co-production with Fox Searchlight Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Pathé and Celador Films)
- _Starred Up_ (co-production with Creative Scotland, Northern Ireland Screen and Sigma Films)
- _Stormy Monday_ (co-production with Atlantic Entertainment Group)
- _Straightheads_ (co-production with Ingenious Film Partners and UK Film Council)
- _Submarine_ (co-production with Red Hour Films and Warp Films)
- _Suffragette_
- _Sunshine_ (co-production with Alliance Atlantis, Eurimages, Telefilm Canada, The Movie Network, Kinowelt, TV2, ORF and Paramount Classics)
- _The Acid House_
- _The Actors_ (co-production with Miramax Films and Bórd Scannán na hÉireann/Irish Film Board)
- _The Baby of Mâcon_ (co-production with UGC and Canal+)
- _The Belly of an Architect_ (co-production with Hemdale Film Corporation)
- _The Crying Game_ (co-production with British Screen, Eurotrustees, Nippon Film Development and Finance and Palace Pictures)
- _The Debt Collector_
- _The Deep Blue Sea_ (co-production with UK Film Council and Artificial Eye)
- _The Double_ (co-production with Alcove Entertainment and British Film Institute)
- _The Eagle_ (co-production with Focus Features)
- _The Emperor's New Clothes_
- _The Favourite_ (co-production with Fox Searchlight Pictures and Element Pictures)
- _The Festival_ (co-production with Entertainment Film Distributors)
- _The Filth and the Fury_ (co-production with Jersey Films)
- _The Future_ (co-production with Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg)
- _The Great Bear_
- _The House of Mirth_ (co-production with Granada Productions, Kinowelt, Arts Council of England, Showtime Networks and The Scottish Arts Council)
- _The Inbetweeners Movie_ (co-production with Bwark Productions, Young Films and Entertainment Film Distributors)
- _The Inbetweeners 2_ (co-production with Bwark Productions)
- _The Iron Lady_ (co-production with Pathé, UK Film Council and The Weinstein Company)
- _The King_
- _The Killing of a Sacred Deer_ (co-production with Element Pictures, Newsparta Films & A24)
- _The Land Girls_ (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Gramercy Pictures, Intermedia Films and Canal+)
- _The Last King of Scotland_ (co-production with DNA Films and Fox Searchlight Pictures)
- _The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse_ (co-production with Universal Pictures and Tiger Aspect)
- _The Little Stranger_ (co-production with Pathé, Canal+ and Element Pictures)
- _The Lobster_ (co-production with Irish Film Board, Eurimages, Netherlands Film Fund, British Film Institute, Canal+, Ciné+, CNC, Institut Français, Greek Film Centre, Element Pictures, Scarlet Films, Faliro House, Haut et Court and Lemming Films)
- _The Look of Love_ (co-production with StudioCanal UK, Revolution Films and Baby Cow Productions)
- _The Lovely Bones_ (co-production with DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures)
- _The Low Down_ (co-production with British Screen, Oil Factory and Sleeper Films)
- _The Madness of King George_ (co-production with The Samuel Goldwyn Company)
- _The Motorcycle Diaries_
- _The Navigators_ (co-production with Road Movies Filmproduktion, Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Arte)
- _The Neon Bible_ (co-production with Artificial Eye)
- _The Personal History of David Copperfield_ (co-production with FilmNation Entertainment)
- _The Pillow Book_ (co-production with Canal+)
- _The Ploughman's Lunch_ (co-production with Goldcrest Films and Michael White)
- _The Pope Must Die_ (co production with Miramax Films, Palace Pictures and Michael White)
- _The Red Violin_ (co-production with New Line Cinema, Lionsgate, Telefilm Canada and CITY-TV)
- _The Riot Club_ (co-production with Universal Pictures, British Film Institute, HanWay Films and Pinewood Pictures)
- _The Selfish Giant_ (co-production with British Film Institute)
- _The Scouting Book for Boys_ (co-production with Celador Films, Screen East and Pathé)
- _The Spirit of '45_
- _The Stone Roses: Made of Stone_ (co-production with Warp Films)
- _The Straight Story_ (co-production with StudioCanal and Walt Disney Pictures)
- _The Supergrass_ (co-production with The Comic Strip and Michael White)
- _The Woman in the Fifth_ (co-production with UK Film Council, Canal+, Orange Cinéma Séries and Artificial Eye)
- _The Woodlanders_ (co-production with Pathé Productions and Arts Council of England)
- _This Is England_ (co-production with UK Film Council, Optimum Releasing, Screen Yorkshire and Warp Films)
- _Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri_ (co-production with Fox Searchlight Pictures and Blueprint Pictures)
- _To Kill a King_ (co-production with Natural Nylon and HanWay Films)
- _Touching the Void_ (co-production with Channel 4, UK Film Council, Darlow Smithson Productions and PBS)
- _Trainspotting_
- _Trainspotting 2_ (co-production with TriStar Pictures, Cloud Eight Films and DNA Films)
- _Trance_ (co-production with Pathé, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Cloud Eight Films and Indian Paintbrush)
- _Trespass Against Us_ (co-production with Potboiler Productions)
- _Trojan Eddie_ (co-production with Bórd Scannán na hÉireann/Irish Film Board)
- _True History of the Kelly Gang_ (co-production with Film Victoria and Screen Australia)
- _Tyrannosaur_ (co-production with Warp X, Inflammable Films, UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire, EM Media, and Optimum Releasing (as StudioCanal UK))
- _Under the Skin_ (co-production with British Film Institute, FilmNation Entertainment, Scottish Screen, Nick Wechsler Productions and A24 Films)
- _Una_ (co-production with Bron Studios, Jean Doumanian Productions, and WestEnd Films)
- _Velvet Goldmine_ (co-production with Newmarket Capital Group, Miramax Films, Killer Films and Zenith Entertainment)
- _Venus_ (co-production with UK Film Council and Miramax Films)
- _Very Annie Mary_ (co-production with Canal+)
- _Walking and Talking_ (co-production with Miramax Films, Zenith Productions, Pandora Film, Mikado Films (France), Electric, TEAM Communications Group, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Good Machine)
- _Welcome to Sarajevo_ (co-production with Miramax Films)
- _When the Wind Blows_ (co-production with Kings Road Entertainment)
- _Widows_ (co-production with 20th Century Fox, Regency Enterprises and See-Saw Films)
- _Wish You Were Here_
- _With or Without You_ (co-production with Miramax Films and Revolution Films)
- _Wittgenstein_ (co-production with the British Film Institute)
- _Wuthering Heights_ (co-production with HanWay Films, Ecosse Films, UK Film Council, Goldcrest Films and Screen Yorkshire)
- _You Were Never Really Here_ (co-production with Why Not Productions, British Film Institute and Page 114)
- _Zastrozzi, A Romance_

## Other websites

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## Infobox (company)

- **name**: Film4 Productions
- **former name**: Channel Four Films
FilmFour International
- **type**: movie production, movie production company
- **foundation**: 1982
- **location**: London, England
- **locations**: London, Los Angeles
- **owner**: Channel Four Television Corporation
- **key people**: Tessa Ross
- **products**: film, Motion Pictures