Research on distribution- Shifty

Shifty- produced by Rory Aitken and Ben Pugh

From imdb:

Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend returns home. Stalked by a customer desperate to score at all costs, and with his family about to turn their back on him for good, Shifty must out-run and out-smart a rival drug dealer, intent on setting him up for a big fall. As his long time friend Chris, confronts the dark past he left behind him, Shifty is forced to face up to the violent future he's hurtling towards.

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Metrodome is the distributor that picked up Shifty for release in the UK. There's a lot of urban films made, films like Kidulthood, Adulthood, Bullet Boy. 

As Jezz Vernon, the head of marketing at Metrodome said " I think one of the most important things we want to say in these screenings is that cinema can be about so much more than Spiderman and Star Wars and Hollywood blockbusters, there is some really fantastic cinema being made in Britain today and I think Shifty is a fantastic example of that."

We realised that it doesn't have to be set in London, it doesn't have to be about high-flying culture, it can be set in places you're from, the people in the movie can be the kind of people you know and the kind of stories that the movie focuses on could be familiar to you so we really hope in these screenings that you get an idea of how diverse cinema can be, and you can really enjoy film that comes from right here in the UK, it doesn't have to be an American view of the world.

Here are some of the films that Metrodome distributed :

From Imdb