Film 4 is contolled by tessa ross, she was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2010 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to Broadcasting. one of her most famous acheivments is slumdog millienaire.

film 4 is a production house and a channel that produces and broadcasts alternative films. in 2006 the channel
oved from pay tv to being free-to-air allowing more free access to home grown and blockbuster films.
film 4 is 'commited to enhance the british film making industry by nurturing and fundingnew talent'

channal 4 had a budget rise of fifty percent from 2001 to fifteen million per year, guaranteed for the next five years. despiate this they mannage to make six films a year proving that english film companies are the better at producing films on a small budjet as the american companies tend to use 30-50 million per film.  they have also won five ascars over a period of four years.