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Fish Tank 2009 case study

Tina Hartnell

Mia, an aggressive fifteen-year-old girl, lives on an Essex estate with her tarty mother, Joanne, and precocious little sister Tyler. She has been thrown out of school and is awaiting admission to a referrals unit and spends her days aimlessly. She begins an uneasy friendship with Joanne's slick boyfriend, Connor, who encourages her one interest, dancing.

Storyline

BBC Films UK Film Council Limelight Communication ContentFilm Kasander Film Company

Production Companys

Artificial Eye Cinèart MK2 Diffusion Monopole-pathè Nettai Museum Nutopia

Entertainment SP Films Syrena Films Alta Films Artificial Eye Audio Visual

Entertainment Canana Films Cinefil Imagica

Cineart Criterion collection Europa films Film1 First Distributors ICF Films Independent film

channel Kam & ronson

enterprise One movie Twin pics YLE Teema Good Movies

Distributors

BUDGET $3,000,000 Domestic Box Office $374,657 International Box Office Gross

$5,547,617 Worldwide Box Gross $5,992,292 Profit $2,922,292

Revenue

BAFTA AWARDS Alexander Korda Award for best British film

AFI Fest New Lights Competition

British Independent Film award Best director Most promising newcomer

Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize

Chicago international film festival Gold plaque Silver Hugo

Awards

Special Jury Prize Edinburgh international film festival

Best British Performance Evening standard British Film Awards

Evening standard British film award Fantasporto

Best film Best screenplay

London Critics Circle Film Awards British film of the year British Supporting actor of the year Young British performer of the year British Director of the year

Awards

Promoting the film

- Andrea Arnold

Director & Writer

Katie Jarvis Michael Fassbender Kierston Wareing Rebecca Griffiths Harry Treadaway Sydney Mary Nash Carrie-Ann Savill Toyin Ogidi Grant Wild Sarah Bayes

Starring

The film has two audiences as it was made for the film festival.

The first audience is the film festival judges who would be between 30 and 50 years old.

The other audience would be 15 up to about 21 as this is the age group represented in the film.

The film does not appeal to a worldwide audience as the film is about a small area in Essex and does not portray the middle and upper class that the world expects London to be, but instead it shows the none working class.

Audience

Issues raised with national and Local audiences…

Due to the film showing a small location in Essex where the class is below working class, this film would not appeal to an international audience.

The setting of the film is made 100% clear as in some of the shots the river Thames and the Queen Elizabeth bridge is shown.

The actors in the film are mostly unknown meaning that the film would not have a huge fan base before the film gets its own.

Due to America expecting London to be middle to high class this film showing below working class and the theme of social realism it unlikely that large American company's would distribute the film.

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