About Us

PR Contact is a public relations company which specializes in working in the international entertainment industry.

The company’s director Phil Symes has operated independently since August 1982 working with leading names in the global film, music and television industries.

Symes’ first project as an independent saw the launch of Palace Pictures, with his company continuing to handle the various film making and distribution activities throughout Palace’s life span, being responsible for the publicity on distributed films and productions such as Company of Wolves, Absolute Beginners, Mona Lisa, and the company’s final production, The Crying Game. Working with other distributors and producers, Symes’ company has represented such prize winning films as Howards End, Reservoir Dogs, Ken Loach’s Ladybird, Ladybird and Land and Freedom, Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen, Peter Mullan’s The Magdalene Sisters, Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle, Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth and Darren Aronofsky’s Oscar winning The Wrestler.

And, an indication of the company’s diversity, it has also turned its hand to promoting such international box office hits as Wayne’s World, Clueless, and The Rugrats Movie.

The firm also excels in working with directors making their first features which it has done with notable success with such now well established directors as Neil Jordan (Angel, and Company of Wolves), Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs), Joel and Ethan Coen (Blood Simple), and Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund

(City of God).

Symes and his company have become particularly identified for its work in the independent sector, with among its regular clients over the years FilmFour, Scala Productions, Working Title, Initial, blueLight, Parallax Pictures and Wild Bunch.