With over 25 years experience in the entertainment industry, Mia Farrell represents independent films and filmmakers, creating the best possible campaigns for their projects - whether premiering at festivals around the world or for special screenings or theatrical release.
Mia has worked on numerous international publicity campaigns for films screening at festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, Toronto and Venice. She started working in personal publicity at Susan Geller & Associates before turning her focus to international film publicity at the global public relations firm DDA for nearly ten years, and then as Vice President of International Publicity at Paramount Pictures. She spearheaded the worldwide tours for such films as Michael Mann's ALI and Bill Condon's DREAMGIRLS and participated in the international tours for blockbusters such as Peter Jackson’s LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, Michael Bay’s TRANSFORMERS, DreamWorks Animation hit SHREK THE THIRD and David Yates' HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 & 2.
Mia also served as a unit publicist for the films HEAD IN THE CLOUDS, starring Charlize Theron and Penelope Cruz, IMAGINARY HEROES, starring Emile Hirsch and the documentary RUNNING AMERICA. During their respective screenings at the Venice Film Festival, Mia worked on projects as diverse as Ang Lee’s BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, Mira Nair's VANITY FAIR and Oliver Stone’s WORLD TRADE CENTER.
Having always held a special place in her heart for documentaries, Mia handled the audience favorite STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF MOTOWN in Toronto and the Special Jury Prize-winning THE MURDER OF EMMETT TILL in Sundance. Mia worked on the U.S. release of world-renown photographer Bruce Weber’s documentary A LETTER TO TRUE and looked after the publicity campaign for a retrospective of Weber’s documentary work, including the Academy Award-nominated LET’S GET LOST and critical favorites BROKEN NOSES and CHOP SUEY, at the ArcLight Cinema in Los Angeles. She worked with Weber again for the Dialogues screening of LET’S GET LOST at the Toronto International Film Festival.
On behalf of Milena Kaneva’s documentary FREEDOM FROM FEAR (Cannes Film Festival), Mia arranged a photo call with six exiled monks from Myanmar with actress and activist Jane Birkin and facilitated media coverage from around the world as the monks engaged in a silent march for peace throughout the streets of Cannes.
Other festival highlights include working with directors Gaspar Noe, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Larry Clark, Richard Prince, Matthew Barney, Marco Brambilla and Marina Abramovic on their controversial film DESTRICTED in Sundance and Cannes, which led to Mia looking after Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Palme d’Or nominated short film LOVE YOU MORE in Cannes a few years later. Recently, she had the pleasure of representing Jim Chuchu's Teddy Award-winning anthology film STORIES OF OUR LIVES, which screened in the Berlinale's Panorama section and is based on true stories collected from persons identifying as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex in Kenya.
Partially based in London, Mia developed theatrical release campaigns in the United Kingdom for THE HUNGER GAMES, THE EXPENDABLES 2, FRIENDS WITH KIDS, THE LAST STAND, THE PAPERBOY and THE ICEMAN whilst serving as a consultant with Lionsgate UK. She has also served as a Senior Festival Publicist and PR Manager in the official press offices for the Sundance, Tribeca and BFI London Film Festivals. From June 2018 to August 2022 Mia was PR Manager, BFI Festivals at the British Film Institute, overseeing public relations for the BFI London Film Festival and the BFI Flare LGBTQIA+ Film Festival. She is currently the Director of the Hanson FilmTV Institute in Tucson, Arizona.