Distributors for our Film

Possible Distributors for our Film

Raindance

Since 1992 Raindance has been offering advice and support for independent filmmakers. They started the Raindance Film Festival in 1993, and the British Independent Film Awards in 1998.

Most of each year is spent training thousands of new and established filmmakers in all aspects of

film.

Among high profile alumni are Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins), David Yates (Harry Potter), Guy Ritchie and Matthew Vaughn – who actually met at a Raindance course. Raindance training is one of the world’s largest catering for over 3000 students per year.

Short Film Central

Short Film Central was started in 2005 to help filmmakers promote their short films. Short Film

Central continues to grow into one of the most useful resources on the internet for information on short films, the people who make them, and the events which screen them. Short Film Central has distributed a film called 'Love at First Sight' which won an award for the Best Cinematography at the International Short Film Carnival. The site distributes films from directors such as Maverick Moore, David Janson and Jacob Frey.

Journeyman Pictures

For over twenty years Journeyman has distributed and co-produced, provocative, profound and

original factual content, working with the top players in the industry. They are one of the leading independent suppliers of award winning stories to the world broadcast market and pride themselves on a position at the spearhead of the factual agenda. With a very successful catalogue covering a myriad of subjects and styles; commercial, current affairs, and feature docs, they always keep at heart a central journalistic ethic that goes to the very roots of the company.


Future Shorts

Since 2003, Future Shorts has created a rapidly expanding network that allows filmmakers the opportunity to have their work seen on the largest theatrical platform worldwide. Passionately believing in getting short films seen and creating a culture around the medium, Future Shorts is recognised by filmmakers, the industry and press alike as the cutting-edge short film label. Future Shorts is a worldwide monthly film festival as well as a distributor.

We chose to use 'Short Film Central' as the distributor for our film because they had previously marketed films of a similar genre.

Research into Possible Distributers

Future Shorts - Since 2003, Future Shorts has created a rapidly expanding network that allows filmmakers the opportunity to have their work seen on the largest theatrical platform worldwide. Passionately believing in getting short films seen and creating a culture around the medium, Future Shorts is recognised by filmmakers, the industry and press alike as the cutting-edge short film label. Future Shorts is a worldwide monthly film festival as well as a distributor, sales agent, consultancy service and DVD label.

Candella UK - Candella UK distributes packages of short films at over 300 European and worldwide festivals, with the specific aim of promoting UK filmmaking beyond our shores. Candella-promoted shorts have won major prizes at European festivals in recent years.

Shorts International Ltd. (formally Brit Shorts) - Shorts International Ltd. is the world's leading short movie entertainment company with the globe's largest catalogue dedicated to short movies. They bring the best short movies to audiences in the United States, Europe and Asia whether they are in movie theaters, watching cable television, using their iPads or online.

Bloody Cuts 
Bloody Cuts is an anthology of short Horror films presented online as a free web series for the love and passion of UK horror filmmaking. The series inception came mid-2011, when Norfolk filmmakers Ben Franklin, Anthony Melton and Jonny Franklin banded together to form what would eventually become Bloody Cuts. The idea was simple – to create a horror series, freely accessible online, that would be made by a collective of talented individuals. Their vision was to reimagine the classic anthology format, in a series of 13 short films that would broadly cover the horror genre spectrum.

Short film distributors

Short film distributors

Candella UK
Candella UK distributes packages of short films at over 300 European and worldwide festivals, with the specific aim of promoting UK filmmaking beyond our shores. Candella-promoted shorts have won major prizes at European festivals in recent years.
Dazzle Short Film Label
Dazzle is an independent short film label, which handles the exclusive distribution, exhibition and sales rights for a selective catalogue of award-winning, critically acclaimed UK and international titles. From 90-second, digital micro-movies to super-35mm masterpieces, dazzle's bijou short film collection is often provocative, always original and sure to inspire.
Future Shorts
Since 2003, Future Shorts has created a rapidly
expanding network that allows filmmakers the opportunity to have their work seen on the largest theatrical platform worldwide. Passionately believing in getting short films seen and creating a culture around the medium, Future Shorts is recognised by filmmakers, the industry and press alike as the cutting-edge short film label. Future Shorts is a worldwide monthly film festival as well as a distributor, sales agent, consultancy service and DVD label.
Journeyman Pictures

For over twenty years Journeyman has distributed and co-produced, provocative, profound and original factual content, working with the top players in the industry. They are one of the leading independent suppliers of award winning stories to the world broadcast market and pride themselves on a position at the spearhead of the factual agenda. With a very successfu
l catalogue covering a myriad of subjects and styles; commercial, current affairs, and feature docs, they always keep at heart a central journalistic ethic that goes to the very roots of the company.
Network Ireland TV
Since its inception 17 years ago, Network Ireland Television has become the foremost independent TV programme and film distributor in Ireland, dedicated to pr
oviding the best in contemporary film and TV programming for international audiences. The company represents a wide-ranging catalogue of quality TV, Film, DVD and Video material from both independent producers and broadcasters both in Ireland and elsewhere for sale worldwide.
Shorts International Ltd. (formally Brit Shorts)
Shorts International Ltd. is the world's leading short movie entertainment company with the globe's largest catalogue dedicated to short movies. They bring the best short movies to audiences in the United States, Europe and Asia whether they are in movie theatres, watching cable television, using their iPads or online.

Ouija Boards research

Ouija Boards

a board with letters, numbers, and other signs around its edge, to which a planchette, movable pointer, or upturned glass moves, supposedly in answer to questions from people at a séance. Ouija boards have figured prominently in various horror films as devices enabling malevolent spirits to terrorize their users. The Uninvited features a scene with an impromptu board the characters put together; Alison's Birthday has one too, with its claustrophobia-inducing filming; Deadly Messages and Awakenings also feature one.

How to use a Ouija Board

1. Find a quiet place with no distractions, possibly in a field, next to a river, a quiet room. Or it could be somewhere with happy memories and that you feel safe and comfortable in.
2. Do not use in your bedroom as it could lead to there being negative energy there.
3. Always use in a group and never alone for safety reasons so someone is there to end the session.
4. Always watch the pointer as it can indicate what kind of spirit is there for example if the planchette travels to each corner of the board you have reached an evil spirit so end the session immediately.
5. Ask sensible questions and avoid the following topics: God and religion, your death and anything to do with your name and the members of your group's name.
6. Be polite and end the session by saying goodbye in order to not disrespect the spirit.

Film title ideas

Film title ideas

• Contact
• The Unknown
• The Sign
• Presence
• Psyche

Final film idea

A group of friends meet up for the night and decide to playfully communicate with the dead and unbeknown to them it could be more dangerous than initially thought. One of their friends doesn't turn up and everyone wonders why yet they still continue with their fun night. They set the Ouija board up in the centre of the room and everyone sits around it. Melissa asks Olivia to put her hands on the planchette and ask the first question. In the meantime Ruby panics over Jake not turning up and shouts at the others to stop messing about with the Ouija board. Olivia communicates with the spirit when she asks "when did you die?" and receives the answer "ten minutes ago". She then becomes cautious whereas Melissa is curious and wants more answers.

She takes over putting her hands on the planchette and asks "How did you die?", the spirit answers saying it was a car crash, Melissa starts to hear noises inside her head, she puts her hands to her head, no one else can hear the noises but her. She hears the sound of a car crash and screams, everyone asks her whats wrong and she sits there in silence unable to move or speak. Ruby says "I told you this was a bad idea" and Olivia replies with "We didnt know, we just wanted some fun". They wonder whats wrong with Melissa as she sits there in shock, Olivia puts her hands on the Planchette and says "we need to sort this out". She then asks the spirit "What's your name?" and it replies with 'Jake'. Ruby's face becomes instantly shocked as she says 'Jake? not our friend Jake." She grabs the planchette and asks the spirit "You're not our firend Jake are you?" and it replies with 'Yes I am'.

They go to visit the site of the crash and put flowers on the lampost in rememberence, as they are walking away you see Jake in the distance watching them.

Final film idea options

A group of friends try to communicate with the dead through a makeshift Ouija board, thinking nothing is going to happen. Little did they no they get an answer from a long lost relative.

* Friend dies while they are waiting for him. Meanwhile they have an Ouija board and unbeknown to them their friend is trying to contact them telling them he’s died. 
* Friend previously dies and their friends are mourning them and wish they could have another chance to say goodbye. They decide to try and contact their friend, but one of the friend is cautious about doing it. The innocent one is the one contacted by the spirit. 
* Beginning- person 1 does an Ouija board alone (the spirit from the Ouija board causing their death) middle- all the friend do the Ouija board, use the eye piece and find out that one of them (person 1) is a spirit (somewhere else the death body of person 1 is found which reveals to the audience that, that dead person died using the Ouija board.

Short film ideas

Short film ideas

Idea 1: A girl is walking home alone during sunset at the local woods after finishing college. She is on the phone to her friend and starts to feel uncomfortable because she thinks she is being watched. She says to her friend on the phone that she can hear footsteps and leaves rustling from behind, she screams and the line cuts off on her friend’s side. After this, her friend continually rings her but no one answers and so goes looking for her where she usually walks home from college and finds her phone on the floor. She suddenly gets hit around the head by a hammer and falls unconscious onto the floor. She wakes up with rope wrapped around her and her friend holding a knife standing next to an unknown person. She walks up to her with an expressionless face clenching onto the knife and kills her remorsefully. The girl slowly walks away with the unknown man.

Idea 2: Waking up from a car accident in critical condition, a girl tries to piece together who caused her to be in hospital and tries to find the culprit. Does she get revenge?

Short film ideas

Short film ideas

The New Her

·         A new girl called Sasha starts at college and is introduced to a girl called Becky and a group of her friends. Sasha takes a liking to Becky and becomes obsessed with her. Sasha invites Becky to help her with their homework project but she has other plans in mind. And so Becky declines the offer because she is already working with someone else. Sasha gets jealous and she starts to stalk Becky. Overtime Sasha starts to almost become Becky in the way she dresses and acts. Sasha ends up killing Becky and becomes the new version of Becky. Sasha (new Becky) is walking and someone says “Where’s Sasha” and Sasha (new Becky) says “She decided to move college.”

An Answer Back

·         A group of friends try to communicate with the dead through a makeshift Ouija board, thinking nothing is going to happen. Little did they no they get an answer from a long lost relative.



Short Film ideas

Kindness goes a long way
A man walks past a homeless person sat on the pavement beside a building. The man puts some money into the tin of the homeless person then continues to walk to their destination, a well paid office job. Time passes months later and the man who put money into the homeless man's tin is now homeless as he lost his job and was declared bankrupt. The homeless person from before is no longer homeless and is working a small job at a local cafe, the person takes the homeless man, who previously put some change into the tin, home so that he has a bed for the night. The film ends with the words "Kindness goes a long way" or "What goes around comes around" or both.

A New Reality
An 18 year old girl looks through her old family photos and she soon realises that the family that she has lived with for the past 18 years isn't her biological family. She discovers her birth mother's name and tries to find her birth parents. Her adoptive parents are unaware of what she knows and soon all the truth comes out. (This short film could be an awareness video about abused children and that being a foster parent changes children's lives for the better).

Film Idea 2

A woman comes home at night to find her front door open, but nothing is stolen and everything is untouched. She locks the door, and goes into her front room but hears a rustle, turns round and a man is there, he knocks her out unconscious. There are lots of flashbacks shown to him watching the house and breaking in. The woman wakes up tied to a chair with him stood in front of her. He holds her hostage interrogating her for information on an item he thinks she has in her possession.

Film Idea 1

A girl is tormented by the death of her friend who died months earlier. She can’t get it out of her head and is seeing her friend’s ghost everywhere but no one believes her. She feels immense guilt and throughout the film we are shown flashbacks to the memories of them being happy together. Her friend was murdered so this plays on her mind more making her think that she could’ve stopped it. But her friend is also trying to giver her clues as to who murdered her so she makes it her mission to find out who did it and bring them to justice but everyone else just assumes she’s gone crazy and should leave what’s in the past behind.