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SMA Talent has long been one of the UK’s leading international film/tv composer management companies and we’ve now successfully added film directors and screenwriters to our roster of activities.

The business is headed by the husband and wife team of Olav and Carolynne Wyper who between them have more than 25 years expertise working in the UK and the international film and television communities.

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Steve Wright scores new Raymond Blanc series

Steve Wright has composed the music for Raymond Blancs’ new 60 mins series for BBC 2, ‘The Very Hungry Frenchman’, starting 8 o’clock Thursday February 2 for 5 weeks.

Michael Radford Joins SMA

We are very pleased to announced that the acclaimed Oscar Nominated and double BAFTA Award winning writer/director Michael Radford has joined SMA Talent Limited for management/agency, excluding North America, where he is represented by David Guillod of Intellectual Artists Management. Says Olav Wyper, CEO of SMA Talent, “I have long been an admirer of Michael’s [...]

Composers Bob Locke & Tim Norfolk aka The Insects now at SMA

We’re very pleased to announce the representation of composers Bob Locke & Tim Norfolk aka The Insects. They started their film and tv composing career in the 90’s and in those early days mostly on docs and nat.hist. – they won an EMMY in 1994 forLife At The Edge, a National Geographic Special. Since then they have [...]

Phil Stagg’s ‘Wodehouse’s War’ to be directed by Michael Radford

Phil Stagg’s screenplay,Wodehouse’s War, is to be directed by Michael Radford, the award winning director of Il Postino. The film will shoot next year in Germany, France and the UK and is produced by Richard Johns and Rupert Jeremy for Corona Pictures and Olav Wyper for SMA Talent. Meanwhile Phil is working on the screenplay of The Club [...]

Jim William’s score for Kill List much praised

Kill List, the new Ben Wheatley film opened nationwide on September 2 and is garnering lavish praise – as is Jim Williams’terrific score: ” …Jim Williams’ eminently unsettling score – the film’s saturine heartbeat – pulses underneath…” (Financial Times). “‘Britain has rarely seemed so eerie, the sound and score playing with an expert handle on [...]