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…
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Kevin Kliesch wins Daytime Emmy Award for Sofia the First!
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 & Ben Salisbury Score ‘Ex Machina’
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 scores Roald Dahl’s ‘Esio Trot’
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…
FM Le Sieur joins SMA!
ASCAP Award-winning FM Le Sieur is a celebrated musician and composer who has been nominated for every major award for television and film music in his native Canada, garnering five Gemini award wins and five additional nominations; one Genie award nomination; and three Jutra award nominations. FM’s career has spanned over fifteen years, and his other…
Michael Levine to Score ‘Landfill Harmonic’
Michael Levine (Mea Culpa) is scoring ‘Landfill Harmonic’; a documentary about the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a Paraguayan musical group, that plays instruments made entirely out of garbage. It is a beautiful story about the transformative power of music, which also highlights two vital issues of our times: poverty and waste pollution Recently it screened at the SXSW 2015…