Shifty (2008)

Our group looked at Shifty. A smaller budget film distributed by UK based Metrodome plc distribution.


SHIFTY 2008

Director: Eran Creevy Writer: Eran CreevyStars:Riz Ahmed, Daniel Mays and Jason Flemyng


imbd.com:


Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend returns home. Stalked by a customer desperate to score at all costs, and with his family about to turn their back on him for good, Shifty must out-run and out-smart a rival drug dealer, intent on setting him up for a big fall. As his long time friend Chris, confronts the dark past he left behind him, Shifty is forced to face up to the violent future he's hurtling towards.


www.cinemablend.com shows how sucessful the dirstribution company was in promoting this extremely low budget film and making a national sucess story:


Four years ago, British writer/director Eran Creevy made a name for himself with his debut film Shifty. The independently made, gritty crime drama marked the arrival of an important new presence on the U.K. film scene. The feature even ended up being nominated, despite its insanely low budget, for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer at the BAFTAs. Unfortunately, the young talent went up against Duncan Jones' Moon, so Creevy ended up empty handed

DISTRIBUTION OF FADED

As a group, we have decided to use Metrodome Distribution ( features films and home entertainment in the UK). The distributed films like The Secret in Their Eyes, The Scar Cow, In Darkness and Shifty. They don't distribute big Hollywood movies Spiderman or 2012 but they mainly distribute small scale British films, so Metrodome would be a suitable distributor for Faded.


They believe that good films don't have to be big Hollywood blockbusters, don't have to be about high-flying culture but instead, can be set in places we live in, and the people can be the kind of characters that we know. Just like our film, nothing fancy, not many special effects, just a simple but thrilling story that attracts the audiences and might even make them think about their lives. This distributor is perfect for our film as ours is a low budget film as well our film being ratehr realistic unlike films set in an alien world which uses lots of special effects.

Metrodome has a facebook page:

www.TheDrum.co.uk

Metrodome Distribution to drive social media buzz for film titles

Metrodome Distribution to drive social media buzz for film titles

Film distributor Metrodome Distribution is set to implement social media campaigns to grow awareness of its releases, following the appointment of White Hat Media.
The agency has been handed the task of driving online awareness of its films through extensive campaigns for each release.


The first media campaign will focus on its new DVD label Epic Asia’s first film, a martial arts picture called Legend of the Fist.


Jezz Vernon, head of distribution at Metrodome explained that the company had used social media in the past, but now wished to bring experts on board to improve its online results.
Metrodome has also recently begun a co-production project with Age of Heroes, starring Sean Bean and Danny Dyer, and also Age of Dragons, starring Vinnie Jones and Danny Glover. Both are due to be released in 2011 with White Hat Media tasked with creating a social media buzz around both titles.