Question: Whip It was released by a film distribution company that specializes in the distribution of independent and British films as well as what kind of films?

Context articles: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Mitu Bhowmick Lange
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Whip It (film)
Welcome to Shama Town
Projectograph
Astra Films
Gunpowder &amp; Sky
First Run Features
Bac films

Fox Searchlight Pictures is an American film distribution company within the Fox Entertainment Group, a sister company of the larger Fox studio 20th Century Fox, all owned by Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox.
 It specializes in North American distribution of independent and British films alongside dramedy and horror films as well as art-house and foreign films and is sometimes also involved in the financing of these films.
 As is the case with Fox's television unit, all copyright notices of programming produced by a Fox-related company (with some exceptions) bear the copyright of the overall film studio, i.e. "© (respective year) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation".
Mitu Bhowmick Lange is currently the Director of "Mind Blowing Films", a film production and distribution company that specialises in the distribution of Indian films throughout Australia and New Zealand.
 It also provides local production support to Indian films shot in Australia and New Zealand.
 She is also the Director of Mind Blowing World, an independent film distribution company that specialises in the distribution of quality local content to Australian and New Zealand audiences.
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (formerly Buena Vista Pictures Distribution and Buena Vista Film Distribution Company) is an American film distributor owned by The Walt Disney Company.
 Established in 1953 as Buena Vista Film Distribution Company, the company handles theatrical distribution, marketing and promotion for films produced and released by the Walt Disney Studios, including Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, DisneyToon Studios, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, Disneynature, and Touchstone Pictures.
 The division took on its current name in late 2007, which before that had been Buena Vista Pictures Distribution since 1987.
Whip It is a 2009 American sports comedy-drama film written by Shauna Cross, based on her novel "Derby Girl".
 The film is directed and co-produced (with Barry Mendel) by Drew Barrymore in her directorial debut.
 It stars Ellen Page as a teenager from the fictional town of Bodeen, Texas, who joins a roller derby team.
 It also stars Barrymore, Alia Shawkat, Marcia Gay Harden, Daniel Stern, Carlo Alban, Landon Pigg in his feature-film debut, Jimmy Fallon, Kristen Wiig, Zoë Bell, Eve, Andrew Wilson, Juliette Lewis and Ari Graynor.
 The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 13, 2009 and was theatrically released on October 2, 2009 in the United States by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Welcome to Shama Town is a 2010 Chinese adventure film directed and written by Li Weiran, starring Sun Honglei, Lin Chi-ling, Li Liqun, and Gan Wei.
 It was distributed by Shanghai Media Group and LeTV Investment Co. Ltd and released by China Film Group Corporation, Huaxia Film Distribution Company, Dadi Time Film Distribution Co., LTD, and Shanghai Star Cultural Transmission Co., LTD.
 It was released in China on 22 June 2010.
Projectograph was a Hungarian film distribution company established in 1908 by Mór Ungerleider and József Neumann.
 They had originally been cafe owners before switching into the more lucrative business of film screening and distribution.
 During the first few years of the company's existence during the Silent era Projectograph came to dominate the Hungarian market.
 While they distributed some Hungarian films made by leading companies such as Corvin Film, they mostly dealt with the distribution of foreign films.
 Their principal rival was the French Pathé company which was a leading distribution outfit in Central and Eastern Europe.
 The company's founders both diversified into film production, founding separate companies.
Astra Films was a British film production and distribution company of the silent era.
 It was set up in Leeds following the First World War by the film director Herbert Wilcox, his younger brother Charles Wilcox and H.W. Thompson, a leading figure in film distribution in the North of England.
 After the company's initial success, Wilcox left the firm to set up on his own and rose to become one of the most successful independent producer-directors in the world.
 After a merger the company released films under the name Astra-National.
Gunpowder & Sky ( also G&S for short) is an American digital media production and distribution company owned by Otter Media.
 The company was founded in January 2016 by Van Toffler, Floris Bauer and Otter Media.
 In September 2016, the company acquired FilmBuff, a film distribution company that specialized in releasing independent films theatrically and through video on demand.
First Run Features is an independent film distribution company based in New York City.
 First Run was founded in 1979 by a group of filmmakers in order to advance the distribution of independent film and is one of America's largest independent distributors of documentaries and art films, releasing 12 to 15 films a year in theaters nationwide and 40 to 60 titles on DVD and VOD annually.
 First Run distributes a large number of documentaries and foreign films, including many films about LGBT issues, Jewish experience, and political and human rights issues.
BAC Films is a French Film production and distribution company.
 Based in Paris, the company was founded in 1986 by Jean Labadie, Éric Heumann, and Stéphane Sorlat.
 Capital shares of the company were re-allocated in 1988 when Vivendi took 10% followed by a 20% stake in the capital of the company and allowed Bac Films to make major and ambitious acquisitions.
 The success story started in 1990 with "Sailor et Lula", Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival.
 The releases of "Barton Fink" and "Tous les matins du monde" in 1991, "Indochine" and "Le Zèbre" in 1992, "La Leçon de piano" in 1993 placed BAC Film at the top of independent film distribution in France.