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104 films are a film production company set up by Director Justin Edgar and Producer Alex Usborne to make original feature films for a global audience.
Justin Edgar
Justin Edgar was born in Handsworth, Birmingham and graduated from Portsmouth University in 1996 with a First Class degree in Film. In 1998 he directed the award winning short comedy Dirty Phonecalls which led to him becoming the youngest director ever to direct a major UK feature film aged just 26. Large was backed by Film Four and went straight in at number one in the UK video charts. It sold to over twenty countries around the world.
Justin writes and directs films and television programmes on a social theme. The award-winning 2005 short Special People was followed by searing gun crime drama The Ends which won Best Short at the 2005 Raindance Film Festival in London and made headlines on BBC news and in newspapers for its visceral depiction of a double shooting on a South London estate. For that film he spent three months on the Heygate Estate at Elephant and Castle working with young offenders.
His second feature film Special People premiered at the 2007 Edinburgh International Film Festival in competition for the Michael Powell Award and won best film at the 2008 Britspotting Film Festival in Berlin.
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Alex Usborne
Alex Usborne produced the feature films Tales From a Hard City, Large, Fucking Sheffield and the film adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s The Acid House with Martin Clunes, Ewan Bremner and Kevin McKidd. He also served as executive producer on Paul Greengrass’s Bloody Sunday and Shane Meadows’ Once Upon a Time in the Midlands.
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Justin Edgar and Alex Usborne, pictured with Screen West Midlands Chief Executive Officer Suzie Norton |
Usborne and Edgar first collaborated on the teen movie Large backed by Film Four, The Film Consortium and Yorkshire Media Production Agency. Budgeted at £2 Million, Large went straight to number one in the UK video charts, sold to over twenty countries and acquired a cult following.
104’s first short was Round, which premiered at the London film festival in 2003 and went on to win praise and prizes at festivals around the world. Since then, 104 have been busy producing short films funded by Screen West Midlands, Mediabox, First Light, UK Film Council, Birmingham Royal Ballet, BBC, Wellcome Trust, Tesco, Marks and Spencer, Scottish and Newcastle Breweries, JC Decaux and B & Q.