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“Rough Magic” by Craig Safan  is being released July 7th on Perseverance Records and features music inspired by the Paleolithic Cave Paintings of Europe.           Craig Safan – http://www.craigsafan.com

Mark Adler (‘Food Inc’) has scored ‘Merchants of Doubt’, directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Kenner, for which he has won the HMMA Award for Best Feature Documentary Score. It is based on the 2010 book of the same name, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway,and looks at pundits-for-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities as…

Cody Westheimer scores the IMAX 3D Film ‘Journey to Space’. The film showcases the exciting plans NASA and the space community are working on, and the challenges they must overcome to carry out audacious missions such as landing astronauts on Mars and capturing asteroids. By using extensive interviews with astronauts Chris Ferguson (Commander of the final…

Congratulations to Kevin Kliesch for winning the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for Disney Channel’s Sofia The First! Kliesch has worked as a composer and orchestrator on over 100 feature films spanning the past seventeen years, including ‘Frozen’, ‘The Hangover’, ‘Tangled’ and ‘Shrek Forever After’.  He parlayed his success as…

Geoff Barrow, the British music producer, composer and founding member of the band Portishead, and his film co-composer partner Ben Salisbury have received rave reviews for their score for the new DNA/Universal hit movie Ex Machina, written and directed by Alex Garland and produced by Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich. DNA Films producer Andrew Macdonald describes their film-scoring partnership…

Tim Phillips is scoring Roald Dahl’s ‘Esio Trot’, starring Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench. Based on the children’s novel written by British author Roald Dahl, ‘Esio Trot’ is about a retired bachelor who has a thing for his neighbor who only shows affection to her pet tortoise. Tim Phillips has worked on may hit shows such…