How to Save a Fish From Drowning

Director

Kelly Neal

Producer

Sonja Henrici

Cinematographer

Minttu Mantynen

Editor

Patricia Gomez

Contact

Finlay Pretsell
eca / Scottish Documentary Institute
74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9DF
Tel: +44 131 221 6116
Fax: +44 7900 8100 87
www.scottishdocinstitute.com

13 min

Color

How to save a Fish From Drowning is about the death of white rural America told through the voices of three old men fishing on a frozen lake. In a landscape cloaked in snow and hovering in a bright nothingness, they escape their wives, chew the fat about neighbours in their town as they wait…

Directors' Biography

Kelly Neal is a documentary director based out of Edinburgh. She has just been awarded a Scottish BAFTA for Best First Time Director at the New Talent awards. Her last film, How to Save a Fish From Drowning, has just has just been licensed by PBS in the U.S. and she is currently in development for a long-form documentary based in Columbus.

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