Warp X

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Warp X
Company type Production company
IndustryFilm production
Founded2005
Headquarters
Sheffield
,
United Kingdom
Website warpx.co.uk

Warp X is a British film production company, sister to Warp Films based in Sheffield, UK with further offices in Nottingham and London. [1] The company was founded in 2005 and produces feature films. [2]

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Company

Warp X was founded in 2005 and produces feature films. [2] It is a digital film studio that produces feature films in the UK with budgets usually between £400,000 and £800,000. [2] The studio serves as a format for new film directors to create movies for the first time on a lower budget scale with less expectation for high box office revenues on their initial feature foray. [3]

The film studio began with support from organisations including Warp Films, Film4 Productions, the UK Film Council, EM Media, Screen Yorkshire and Optimum Releasing. [4] The intent of the film studio's creation was to add energy and vitality to the film industry in Britain. [5]

Filmography

YearFilmDirectorNotes
2008 A Complete History of My Sexual Failures Chris Waitt Winner, Festival Prize: Spirit of Darklight, Darklight Film Festival [6]
Donkey Punch Olly Blackburn Filmed on a £1 million budget, [7] [8] over 24 days, [9] [10] in South Africa [11]
2009 Bunny and the Bull Paul King Winner, Best Achievement in Production, British Independent Film Awards [12]
She, a Chinese Xiaolu Guo Winner, Golden Leopard, Locarno International Film Festival [13]
Winner, Screenplay Award, Hamburg Film Festival [14] [15]
All Tomorrow's Parties All Tomorrow's People & Jonathan Caouette Covers several years of the music festival, All Tomorrow's Parties, which began in 2002 [16]
Hush Mark Tonderai Nominated, Best Achievement in Production, British Independent Film Awards [17]
2011 Tyrannosaur Paddy Considine Winner, Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer, BAFTA [18]
Winner, The World Cinema Award for Directing: Dramatic, Sundance Film Festival [19]
Winner, Best British Independent Film, British Independent Film Awards [19]
Winner, Best Director, British Independent Film Awards [19]
Kill List Ben Wheatley Nominated, Best Achievement in Production, British Independent Film Awards [20]
Nominated, Best Director, British Independent Film Awards [20]
Winner, Best Horror, Empire Awards [21] [22]
2012 Berberian Sound Studio Peter Strickland Previewed at London FrightFest Film Festival in August 2012, [23] and at the 2012 Edinburgh International Film Festival [24]
2013 For Those in Peril Paul WrightFirst feature film for director Paul Wright; [25] with debut at 2013 Cannes Film Festival [26]

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