104 Films Limited is a film production company founded by director Justin Edgar and producer Alex Usborne in 2004. They specialise in the representation of disabled and disadvantaged talent, both on screen and behind the camera. The first feature film released by 104 Films was 2001's Large. They have since produced various short films. In 2007 they released the feature film Special People. The feature film We Are the Freaks premiered at the 2013 Edinburgh Film Festival, competing for the Michael Powell Award.
In September 2013 the British Film Institute unveiled a £3m annual talent support network, through which they are working with 104 Films to support emerging filmmakers with disabilities.
104 Films co-produced the acclaimed feature documentary Notes on Blindness on the blind academic and theologian John M. Hull. The film premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film and won an Emmy in November 2015. They also produced Battlelines, a drama about deaf soldiers in WW1 which was shown at the imperial war museum film festival and won a Royal Television Society Award.
Currently they are in production on Justin Edgar's fourth feature film The Marker, starring John Hannah and backed by Creative England.
Productions Film Year Director NotesAwards Large 1997 Justin EdgarShort filmDirty Phonecalls1998Justin EdgarShort filmBest Short Film at Birmingham Film Festival 1998 Large 2001 Justin EdgarFeature filmRound2003Justin EdgarShort film Special People 2005 Justin Edgar Short film Special People 2007 Justin Edgar Feature film Hunger House 2008 Justin EdgarShort film Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll 2010 Mat Whitecross Co-producer, 104 Films NFA – No Fixed Abode 2012 Steve Rainbow Producers I am Breathing 2013 Emma Davie, Morag McKinnon Associate producers; documentary film We Are the Freaks 2013 Justin Edgar Feature filmBattle Lines2014Julian Peedle CallooTelevision dramaNotes on Blindness2016James Middleton and Peter SpinneyFeature filmEmmyThe Marker2017Justin EdgarFeature film
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