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Magic Hourglass marks my fifth time as film composer on a Robert Rollins film. Best described as a short epic, it has magic and fantasy and time travel and a huge horse and a seven person sword fight all in 20 minutes.
The film score is an orchestral chamber ensemble mixed with percussion and a folk band.
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My second collaboration wtih director Rebecca Doppelt, Bugbaby is a horror comedy that had screenings all over the country and won multiple awards. The music is a quirky, lighthearted, fantastical score along the lines of a Tim Burton film.
Audience Choice Award
New Orleans Horror Film Festival
Best Horror Short Award
Phoenix Film Festival
Maryland International Film Festival
Spooky Movie International Film Festival
Big Bear Horro-Fi Film Festival
Williamsburg International Film Festival
Atlantic Film Festival
Atlanta Horror Film Festival
Atlanta Shortsfest
New York Hell's Kitchen Film Festival
Black Rock Film Festival (at Burning Man)
Tickle Me Ottawa Festival
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Genevieve McCarty's short "Every Other Week" had a very successful screening at the San Diego Children's Film Festival in August of 2010. In November 2009 it played at the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival where it was nominated for Best Short Film, Best Production Design, and Best VFX. Film score is piano and string orchestrations.
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My fourth collaboration with director Robert Rollins, "The Ringing" is about the common shared experience of having nightmares about your job.
The film score is avant garde modern classical mixed with office lounge music.
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Robert Rollins' featurette "Knightfall" won a Telly award. It's about a modern day knight who has been captured by the Vatican. A timely topic, we learn that these two opposing religious zealots will go to great lengths for "the greater good".
Orchestral & electronic film music.
Watch the trailer.
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This was my third time composing for Robert Rollins. His film "Long After Midnight" is completely narrated, and explores the wild imagination of a child when sleeping alone in a tent in the back yard. The film score is traditional orchestral.
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Ryosuke Kawanaka's film "The Razor" was part of the 2008 Wisconsin Film Festival and the 2007 Los Angeles International Short Film Festival along with "Pumpkin Hollow". The story is about Craig, an old-time barber. He is slowly coming to grips with his failing health and diminishing dexterity with a straight razor, and an accident with the razor may change his future permanently...
Old time jazz film score.
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Robert Rollins' "Pumpkin Hollow" was shown at the 2007 Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, where "The Razor" also participated. It is a Halloween suspense film in which the owner of a pumpkin lot is terrorized by a haunted scarecrow. A film composer's playground!
Orchestral film score.
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Iris Ichishita's "Homeless Karaoke" is a short documentary about a positive side of homelessnes on skid row. It has been acquired by PBS and won Juror's Choice in their Independent Lens Shorts Festival. It received the Paul Robeson Fund for the Arts grant and was also one of 12 finalists in the International Documentary Challenge where I was the film composer. In association with Silverdocs, the film was screened in festivals across the world:
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
DOCNZ Festival New Zealand
Republic of Palau in Micronesia
LA International Short Film Festival
Cinema St. Louis
Documentary Organization of Canada
Acoustic & electronic film score.
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Iris Ichishita's "Al Jazeera English" is a short documentary about the Washington branch of the Arabic news station and its efforts to provide global news in the US despite the biases that have developed towards it since 9/11. Originally a web video for GOOD Magazine.
Electronic film music.
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Maytal Gilboa's "Tommy and Lucy" is a modern-day Hansel and Gretel story. In it two children separated by an evil mother attempt to reunite in the dark of night, despite the frightening things they encounter.
Orchestral film score.
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For Adam Biggs' "Two People" I was the dubbing engineer and also played the piano (not film composer). This film tells the story of a couple's breakup through the dialogue of an intimate morning earlier in their relationship.
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Kamir Ainouz's "Roses, Coffee" tells the same story twice, once from a male perspective and once from a female perspective, a fun challenge for a film composer.
Jazz & pop film music.
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Christopher Sepulveda's "Anyone Anywhere" was distributed through the Film Festival Channel. Inspired by the passing comments of his co-worker and boss, Steven challenges the everyday trust we put in people.
Acoustic pop & orchestral film score.
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Jeremy Milford's "Randolf the Hungry Wizard" is totally ridiculous and completely hilarious! An unsuspecting Randolf is cursed with unceasing hunger, and a myriad of escapades ensue!
Orchestral film score.
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Mr. Resistor was a thesis project from my time at the Berklee College of Music. Although a student project it remains one of my favorite works as a film compsoer. The big band film score coupled with the stop motion animation makes for great slapstick cartoon comedy. The original film was directed by Mark Gustafson, and I have replaced Jamie Haggerly's original music.
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Alan Shore's "Jump For Joy" appeared in two Australian film festivals: The Canberra Film Festival and the Australian National Contemporary Arts Festival. This was a very successful debut for me as a film composer. Four people and three very different problems all meet in the same hot air balloon.
Acoustic pop film score.
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