Film Festivals

PR Contact operates a full office at many of the major film festivals, particularly the Cannes Film Festival where it has represented films in official selection over a number of years, including award winners Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Mona Lisa, Paris Texas, Raining Stones, Land and Freedom, The Son’s Room, the  2007 FIPRESCI and Palme d’Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, and the 2008 Venice Gold Lion winner, Darren Aronofofky’s Mickey Rourke come-back film, The Wrestler.

In addition to Cannes, The PR Contact has a major presence each year at Berlin, Venice, Rio de Janeiro, with experience also of Toronto, San Sebastian and other international festivals.

Other notable and prize-winning films handled at these festivals include: Jean-Luc Godard’s Eloge de l’Amour and Film Socialisme, Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Kandahar, Larry Clark’s Bully, Werner Herzog’s Invincible, Berlin Golden Bear winner, Japanese animation director Hiyao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, and his later Venice festival winner, Howl’s Moving Castle, Fernando Meirelles’ Cidade de Deus (City of God), Gaspar Noe’s Irreversible, Vincent Gallo’s highly debated The Brown Bunny, Samira Makhmalbaf’s Cannes Jury Prize winner At Five In The Afternoon, Peter Mullen’s Venice Golden Lion winner The Magdalene Sisters,  Abel Ferrara’s Venice winner Mary, and Korean director Park chan-wook’s Venice, Berlin and Cannes prize-winning films Sympathy for Lady Vengeance,  I’m A Cyborg, But That’s OK and Thirst.  At this year’s Cannes Film Festival (2010) PR Contact’s line up of films included such veteran filmmakers as Jean-Luc Godard with Film Socialisme, Nikita Mikhalkov with Exodus: Burnt By the Sun 2, Andrei Ujica with his powerful docu-film The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, and the new avant-garde filmmakers including South Korea’s IM Sang-soo with The Housemaid, France’s Quentin Duplex whose Rubber became one of the festival’s main talking points, and Swedish directors Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjärne Nilsson who dreamed up ‘sonic terrorism’ and seized imaginations with their first film Sound of Noise. 

Prior to transferring to Brazil in 2005, the company each year represented the Raindance Film Festival, its sister festival Raindance East, and BIFA (British Independent Film Awards), the annual awards held each November which celebrates achievement and excellence in the British independent film-making community.

For the past nine years the company has acted as international liaison and publicity office for Festival do Rio, the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, Latin America’s biggest annual celebration of home grown and international films.