Pat Kelman talks with Stuart Wright about setting up arthouse film distributor 606 DISTRIBUTION.
Britflcks Podcast host Stuart Wright talks with Pat Kelman, one half of new UK & Ireland film distributor 606 DISTRIBUTION about the evolution the company from a shared apartment at Cannes Film Festival and their first three releases: POLINA, HANNAH and STYX.
POLINA is out now polinathefilm.co.uk
HANNAH has two special preview screenings with Charlotte Rampling in attendance at Curzon Mayfair on Tuesday 26th February, and BFI Southbank on Wednesday 27th February, before openning in selected UK Cinemas from Friday 1st March 2019,7th February.
Synopsis: Hannah is the intimate portrait of a woman's loss of identity as she teeters between denial and reality. Left alone grappling with the consequences of her husband's imprisonment, Hannah begins to unravel. Through the exploration of her fractured sense of identity and loss of self-control, the film investigates modern day alienation, the struggle to connect, and the dividing lines between individual identity, personal relationships, and societal pressures.
STYX opens April 26 with director Q&A previews from April 21
Synopsis: Rike - mid-30s, a doctor from Europe - embodies a typically Western model of happiness and success. She is educated, confident, determined and committed. We see Rike‘s everyday life, as an overworked emergency doctor, before she sets out on a much needed holiday on Gibraltar. There she fulfils a long-held dream and sails out to sea alone in her sailing boat. Her goal: Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. But her dream holiday is quickly broken off on the high seas, when, after a storm, she finds herself near a stricken refugee boat. Unless she intervenes, around a hundred people will drown – their utterly overloaded boat has sprung a leak. Rike follows maritime law and radios for help. Legally, she is not obliged to do any more. But when her calls are left unanswered, and then rejected for spurious reasons, she decides to overcome her fear and try to rescue whoever she can.
