• Joe Stephenson (director) and B good picture company (new)
• micro budget film (independent financing) £110k
• raises issues around the role of national cinema
• produced outside of the mainstream for niche audiences
• reflects shifting patterns of audience consumption (HESMONDHALGH)
• traditional advertising – poster, soial media

DISTTIBURION

• PSB
• 27 June 2015 Edinburgh international film festival (world premiere)
• International premiere – 2015 Busan international film festival

• screened at New Hampshire international film festival (Grand jury award for narrative feature) Giffoni international film festival (Silver 2nd best film)

• British TV premiere FilmFour April 2017 and on subscritption service MUBI
• DVD and BluRay release by (uk)Network 18 september 2017 – US/CANADA 2018

• BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS
• Shortlisted best director (Joe Stephenson) and Best new comer (Scott Chambers)
• UK CINEMA RELEASE MAY 2016

FILMING

• Eben Bolter (one person)
• hollywood – full camera crews or film set
• filmed in 19 days – hollywood takes years
• rained a lo so issues with lighting

THEORIES

• HESMONDHALGH – “businesses in the cultural industries try to minimise risk and maximise audiences through vertical and horizontal integration” – risky business
• GERBNER – cultivation theory
• HALL – theory of preferred reading
• SHIRKY – “we are now more likely to use the internet and other technologies to respond to texts and create our own”
• use distribution to express yourself
• mcluhan – the medium is the message