Distribution

Film Distribution describes everything that happens in between production, during the making of the film. It involves all the deals done to get the film shown including it's promotion.

Other things that Distribution involves are:

Allowing legal rights for a film to be shown,

Releasing and Sustaining a film in the market place,

Marketing and releasing the film,

Making and distributing film prints/files to cinemas,

Making and distribution of DVD/Blue-ray to stores



The overall key concepts of film distributors are the big companies who control most of their industry, the distribution of their own products and of others.

Major US studios generally have their own distribution offices in all the major territories. However an Independent producer has to sell their films to different distributors in each territory. This is what we would have to do with our film 'Verses' because we are an Independent film production company.

Advantages of British films going to America and across the world are that America is a lot bigger than the UK, Americans and a number of countries around the world speak English and size of the audience for a film is mainly huge.



What are the issues for smaller distribution companies

There are lots of disadvantages and issues which smaller distribution companies have. Firstly they have to compete with much bigger distributors for bigger films. Being in the digital age, using new processing equipment and technology, bigger distributors can afford to produce more prints off the reel than smaller distributors, this is because they have a bigger budget. A small company producing a less commercial product cannot afford many prints so people that want to see the film often have to wait until their local independent cinema has a print.