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104 films are a BAFTA winning UK-based feature film production company run by director Justin Edgar and producer Alex Usborne.
In March 2011 we began principle photography on the high octane teen comedy We Are The Freaks written, produced and directed by Justin Edgar and starring an exciting young cast including Jamie Blackley (300: Battle of Artemisia, Snow White and the Huntsman), Mike Bailey (Skins), Sean Teale (Skins), Amber Anderson (Your Highness), Michael Smiley (Kill List), Rosamund Hanson (This is England), Adam Gillen (Fresh Meat) and Danielle Bux. Watch this space for more news soon.
Disability
104 film are the world leaders in disability cinema. Our award-winning first feature film Special People was released in UK cinemas in 2008 to great critical acclaim and controversy.
We co-produced the BAFTA nominated biopic of disabled punk rocker Ian Dury, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll starring Andy Serkis, Ray Winstone, Toby Jones, Olivia Williams, Naomi Harris, Mackenize Crook and Noel Clarke. It was released in UK cinemas in 2010.
104 films were awarded a UK Film Council Producers Vision Award to develop feature films with disabled film talent and themes. The first film to emerge from the 104 films studio deal is the dark thriller NFA (No Fixed Abode) starring Patrick Baladi (The Office, Streetdance 3D, BBC's Mistresses and Bodies) as a man who wakes up to find himself homeless. Co-stars are David Sterne (Harry Potter, Never Let Me Go) and David Proud (Eastenders). NFA is the directorial debut of award winning short filmmaker Steve Rainbow who spent years working with homeless people. NFA is due for release later this year.
We are also currently co-producing the documentary Breathing directed by Morag Mackinnon and backed by Channel 4. The film is about a dying man's relationship with his three year old son.
We were strategic partners to the UK Film Council and ran The Magic Hour short film scheme with the finished films receiving a nationwide cinema release. Applications for the 2010 scheme are now closed although we continue to work with the BFI, Skillset and other bodies to further the inclusion of disabled people in the film industry.
