kidulthood research

Kidulthood had a production budget of £600,000. This budget was mostly provided by director Menhaj Huda and producer friend George Issac.

Why would this film have found it difficult to get finance from a production company?
This would be risky for a poduction company to give money for the producion of the film, because the film has a certain target audience, this means the film want make as much money as any other films, for example 'Avatar' has a wide audience outlet. So if a prduction company would have helped out with th finance they may no have benifitted from it. so overall all the sunject mattr would have been a issue because it reflects on the audience which then reflecs upon how much money it makes from selling the product.

Some of this budget was funded by the UK Film Council

How much was given to the film for production and distribution? What criteria did the film have to meet to be awarded the funds?
two different companies gave money to the prduction to help with the finance, thse were both funded by the UKfilm council. One of which was 'Single Projects' this company gave the production £10,000 towards the fund. specialised P&A fund, gave £76,295 towards the finance of the film.

The Prints and Advertising Fund is designed to widen and support the distribution and marketing strategy of specialised films and to offer support to more commercially focused British films that nevertheless remain difficult to market.
The UK Film Council's Prints and Advertising Fund has an annual budget of £2 million which aims to benefit audiences by widening:
access to the range of films available;
opportunities to view such films across the UK; and
audience awareness of the range of films potentially available.


the asspiations of the singls project;
Facilitate new, contemporary projects that will be delivered in Bristol.
Enhance the year round programme of arts and cultural activity.
Encourage good practice in supporting and developing creativity.
Encourage risk taking and innovation in the arts.
Support excellence, develop new audiences encouraging participation in arts/culture.
Encourage and enable new and exciting artistic collaboration.
Support diverse work that represents 21st Century Britain.



Revolver Entertainment distributed Kidulthood

Although heavily promoted there was limited distribution of the film, why?

The reason for the limited distibution of the fillm Kidulthood, is because of the one big reason to why the film did not make alot of money, because the film is limited to its target audience, it was a risk to the distibutors. Prints and advertising fund aims to get as many prints of the film, to sell to as many cinemas, this is how the product makes company, but because the finance was on the low it meant that the film was only shown in selected cinemas, this leads to a loss in money.

Kidulthood made just £454,000 at the cinema, It was far more successful on DVD

Why would this film be more successful on DVD than in the cinema?

one of the reasons that the film would have made more money by DVD than cinema because it was only veiwed in selected cinemas. also because the film may be cheaper to buy than to watch.