Hannah (Juno Temple) is a talented songwriter who is taking her first steps in show business. When she meets a music producer named Theo (Simon Pegg), who has enjoyed numerous successes (and even more parties in the 1990s), her door into the music world starts to open. At this point, the relationship between the young American woman and the experienced Englishman could develop into a love story or a musical adventure. But Lost Transmissions goes in another direction: Theo begins behaving strangely, and Hannah doesn’t know how to help him. Delusions, paranoia, and aggression get in the way of genuine affection. How will he deal with this? How will she? And will their relationship be able to handle it? Katharine O’Brien’s full-length debut, which was based on her family’s struggles with mental illness, is at times warm and empathetic, at other times terrifying, but it never stops surprising.
Katharine O'Brien is a director and screenwriter. She was born in Santa Barbara and currently lives in Los Angeles. She studied at Wellesley College and at Columbia University. She has worked in film and television production. She wrote The Automatic Hate, directed by Justin Lerner, which was shown at the SXSW, Busan, and Mar de Plata festivals. Lost Transmissions, her full-length directorial debut, is based in part on her own experience of caring for a person with a mental illness.
2009 Doppelganger (short)
2012 Illusive Fields (short)
2018 Breaking News (short)
2019 Utracone fale / Lost Transmissions