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104 films are a film production company run by Justin Edgar and Alex Usborne to make original feature films for a global audience.
Justin Edgar
Justin Edgar has been a producer with 104 films since 2004.
He 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.
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 and best film at 2008 Moscow and 2009 Calgary Film Festivals.
In 2010 he co-produced the BAFTA nominated Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll starring Andy Serkis as punk icon Ian Dury.
Justin is currently in post-production on his third feature film as writer/director/producer We are The Freaks while developing science fiction The Robot through Skillset's high level Net Profit scheme. He is represented in the UK by Tally Garner at Curtis Brown.
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. He is also acting head of producting at the National Film & Television School.
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.