I think that Fox Searchlight Pictures would make our thriller because they take more risks in general and invest in low budget movies e.g. Cyrus (2010) - budget was $7 Millions, My Name Is Khan $8.4 Millions. It specializes in independent, British films and horrors. In addition, they take risks with unexpeienced directors as Whip It (2009) which was Drew Barrymore's directorial debut. The actors that they use are often not famous.
They have recently made a similar psychological thriller as ours which is the Black Swan (2010). Their lead role is played by a beautiful female strong character as in our thriller. In addition, the director Darren Aronofsky is known for making less commercial movies and low budget (Requiem for a Dream (2000) films. We feel that this is similar to ours and would appeal to similar audience. They have successfully marketed and distributed the film to a main stream audience, hopefully they would do the same with ours.
Another film the institution did was Joshua (2007) which is a horror/thriller movie with unknown actors as ours. The director of the movie George Ratliff is also an unknown director - did not direct commercial movies. Joshua is a boy who is jealous of his little sister and start to terrorizes his family. The similarities are: the things that the parents don't see at first, torturing and sadistic behaviour which could be associated with our thriller and the person who has taken the photos of the people, he might be torturing them. As Fox Searchlight are owned by the media institution Twenty Century Fox who in turn are owned by the Media Conglomerate News International they have access to wide spread marketing and distribution facilities and could afford to take a risk on a film as ours because they could off set the costs by selling the product to anciallary such as DVD and international releases.
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