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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 cut his teeth as a producer on the low budget feature Beach Boys in 1997 at the age of just 25. He went on to win the BBC Drama Award with his short film Dirty Phonecalls. After a spell writing and directing for television he wrote and directed his first feature film Large in 2000 aged 28. 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
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.