104 Films is a film production company founded by director

Justin Edgar Justin Edgar (born 18 August 1971) is a British film director, screenwriter and producer. Early life Born in Handsworth, Birmingham, Edgar left school with no qualifications because he regularly played truant to watch movies at the nearby Od ...

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 ''

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.'' They have since produced various short films. In 2007 they released the feature film '' Special People''. The feature film ''

We Are the Freaks ''We Are the Freaks'' is a 2013 British film written, produced and directed by Justin Edgar. It is a surreal and anarchic anti-teen film about three misfits having the night of their lives. It stars Jamie Blackley, Michael Smiley, Sean Teale, A ...

'' premiered at the 2013

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, competing for the Michael Powell Award. In September 2013 the

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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

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which was shown at the

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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.

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