Archive for May, 2007
ALTMAN, John
John Altman won a BAFTA for Hear My Song and EMMY for RKO 281, this award winning British composer’s most recent Hollywood movie score is Miramax’s worldwide smash hit Shall We Dance, starring Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez. Other recent credits include the features Shoot On Sight and a contemporary version of Ibsen’s The Master Builder both of which opened this year, as well as The Good Samaritan for ITV. Recently awarded a Gold Badge for services to British music by The British Academy of Songwriters & Composers.
ALTMAN, John
John Altman has provided arrangements for many hit records including Bjork’s Oh It’s So Quiet, Rod Stewart’s Downtown Train, Kissing A Fool by George Michael, Van Morrison’s Moondance (John played sax in his band and was his md for 7 years!), That Ole Devil Called Love by Alison Moyet, and the Python’s cult single, Always Look On The Bright Side of Life.
ALTMAN, John
John Altman has provided arrangements for many hit records including Bjork’s Oh It’s So Quiet, Rod Stewart’s Downtown Train, Kissing A Fool by George Michael, Van Morrison’s Moondance (John played sax in his band and was his md for 7 years!), That Ole Devil Called Love by Alison Moyet, and the Python’s cult single, Always Look On The Bright Side of Life.
ANDERSON, J J
After a short-lived spell as an apprentice draughtsman, he studied Art, photography and eventually film at the Bradford College of Art. Worked as a psychiatric nurse, AV technician, civil servant, and professional driver before returning to complete a degree, followed by an MA in Scriptwriting at the Northern School of Film, Leeds Metropolitan University. Has won awards for photography (Creative Camera, Victoria BC) and Scriptwriting (Yorkshire TV/Granada/Tyne Tees TV New Voices ‘The Wedge’).
A full member of the Writer’s Guild (GB)
ATACK, Tim
Tim Atack’s latest feature credits include Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s film Cemetery Junction for Sony Pictures and Ricky’s 2009 The Invention of Lying for Warners. He has completed Re-Uniting The Rubins, a new Brit rom.com for Balagan Productions and Dead Cert, a thriller for Raw Films/Black & Blue Films. He has also scored the forthcoming Channel 4 documentary Graffiti Wars: Banksy vs Robbo, produced by Twofour Broadcast.
DOWLING, Willie
Willie Dowling is a successful singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer, who first broke into scoring with tv comedy series for Armstrong & Miller, among others and then moved across into drama with BBC drama You’re Breaking Up. He recently completed the score for Carnaby Films’ Caught In The Act, directed by Matt Lipsey and has finished Vexed, a new Greenlit series for the BBC2 airing August 15 for 3 weeks . Other credits include Life Of Riley for the BBC; The Cup for Hartswood Films and Never Better, a tv series for World Productions/BBC2. In 2007 also completed the songs and score for the animated feature Snow White – The Sequel.
HEARD, Paul
Paul Heard, the co-writer and producer of the group M-People, is now scoring films and tv drama. His credits include the recently completed Clubbed for Formosa Films, a gangster film set in the Northern clubs in the early 1980′s and Ahead of The Class, ITVs much lauded production starring Julie Walters.
MARTIN, Neil
Neil Martin is a Belfast based composer and musician whose work spans television, radio, theatre, the concert stage and the recording studio. First major tv drama commission was the BBC’s Food For Ravens written and directed by Trevor Griffiths. In 2009 he scored the feature Hell’s Pavement for Irish director Andy Kemp which had its UK premiere at the Edinburgh Festival. A cellist and uilleann piper, his first solo album is on Universal Records.
MORAN, Mike
Mike Moran was arranger/md on Rod Stewart’s recent Royal Festival Hall concert ‘One Night With Rod’ which was broadcast by BBC TV on October 23. He worked a lot with Freddie Mercury and their major collaboration was the album Barcelona, which he arranged and co-produced, as well as co-writing all the songs with Freddie and Tim Rice.
MORAN, Mike
Mike Moran was arranger/md on Rod Stewart’s recent Royal Festival Hall concert ‘One Night With Rod’ which was broadcast by BBC TV on October 23. He worked a lot with Freddie Mercury and their major collaboration was the album Barcelona, which he arranged and co-produced, as well as co-writing all the songs with Freddie and Tim Rice.
MORAN, Mike
Mike Moran is one of the most experienced and versatile of composers, his skill include film/tv scoring, arranging, song writing and record production. Recent scores include the features Blessed, starring James Nesbitt, The Lonely Stag, an Irish film, and A Fox’s Tale, a full length animation movie. He also scored Octavia, the 2008 tv drama based on the novel Jilly Cooper. Other credits include New Tricks, Sherlock, Scarlet Pimpernel and the cult movie Time Bandits.
O’LEARY, Ronan
CREDITS: Riders to the Sea – PBS Special starring Geraldine Page and Amanda Plummer adapted and directed by Ronan from the Abbey Theatre production of the J. M. Synge classic Fragments of Isabella – Adapted and directed by Ronan from the Pulitzer nominated memoirs of Auschwitz survivor Isabella Leitner. Shot at Ardmore studios in Ireland..
O’LEARY, Ronan
Dublin based screenwriter, film editor and director Ronan O’Leary combines a strong visual sense with an equally strong literary skill. He began his career as a drama producer/director for PBS in Los Angeles.
PARKER, Alan
Alan Parker is a brilliant orchestrator and programmer; his composing credits include the 2006 movie Stormbreaker, the cult What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, Fallen Angel, Marian Again, D-Day, Family, Walking With Cavemen, Winter Solstice, The Cry, Ivor Novello nominations for his scores for Victoria & Albert and Rhodes. 2007 tv included Fallen Angel for ITV.
PETIT, Jean-Claude
Jean-Claude Petit is one of the foremost film composers in France and his work includes the universally acclaimed Cyrano de Bergerac (BAFTA Award) with Gerard Depardieu’s amazing performance; Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, both directed by Claude Berri; and the huge hit, Les Miserables, starring John Malkovich, Gerard Depardieu and Jeanne Moreau.
PRUESS, Craig
Craig Pruess is a specialist in Indo/World fusion music but is also a leading string arranger and did the charts for Massive Attack’s 100th Window album and later orchestrated their first film score for Luc’s Besson’s My Name Is Danny. He has also arranged tracks for Elton John, Bond, Maxim, Manic Street Preachers, Def Leppard, Dire Straits and Mike Oldfield, with whom he worked on Tubular Bells II.
PRUESS, Craig
Craig Pruess is a specialist in Indo/World fusion music but is also a leading string arranger and did the charts for Massive Attack’s 100th Window album and later orchestrated their first film score for Luc’s Besson’s My Name Is Danny. He has also arranged tracks for Elton John, Bond, Maxim, Manic Street Preachers, Def Leppard, Dire Straits and Mike Oldfield, with whom he worked on Tubular Bells II.
PRUESS, Craig
Craig Pruess was Nominated for a BAFTA for his score for the BBC’s Moses Jones. The music was singled out as being an important element in creating the character of the series with one reviewer writing “ surely the tv soundtrack of the year!”. He went on to compose the music for Five Days 2 for the BBC. Films include Bend It Like Beckham.
As musician, arranger, producer and Indo/World fusion expert he is widely regarded as the finest non-Indian sitar player and world music specialist. Following the acclaim for his music in Moses Jones he launched the African fusion band, The Ganga Boys who were featured in the series.
SALISBURY, Ben
EMMY nominated composer, Ben Salisbury, has forged a highly successful career as one of the UK’s leading film and tv composers; particularly in the field of natural history, where he has scored over 50 films – including the last three of David Attenborough’s Life Of… series. He is also involved with some of the UK’s most interesting ‘alternative’ bands, working as an arranger and collaborator with acts on Geoff Barrow’s (Portishead) Invada label, and as a co-writer with Domino signed “stand-alone Bristol sensation”, Malachai. This combination of an impressive, modern cinematic, orchestral style and a deep rooted understanding of alternative rock and electronica has now pitched Ben firmly into the field of contemporary drama and features.
Stop Press
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 for Life At The Edge, a National Geographic Special. Since then they have scored two features for director Richard Kwietniowski; – Love and Death on Long Island (BBC Films) Owning Mahowny (Alliance Atlantis). Major tv credits include all six series of Wire In The Blood for Coastal Productions. They worked with Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack on the feature 44 Inch Chest (Prescience), contributing band numbers and songs. Bob and Tim worked alongside Massive Attack co-writing Karma Coma and Eurochild for the band’s Protection album and that led to other collaborations including I Want You for Madonna and Hunter Gets Captured by the Game for the Batman Forever soundtrack album.
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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 tension, tension…release” (Sunday Times). “…there’s also a superbly conceived soundtrack from Jim Williams that effectively heightens the tension and makes brilliant use of some genuinely disturbing sounds.” (Film Review). “Jim Williams’ abrasively oppressive score”. (Independent on Sunday).
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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 1948, a thriller set during the Berlin airlift, for the Munich based ART-OKO Film GmbH.
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The 3rd series of Moving On, created by Jimmy McGovern, airs on BBC1 from Monday November 14.
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We have just signed Phil Booth to our screenwriters roster. Phil started in the film industry as a runner, quickly moving up the ladder and now works as a 1st AD all over the world with directors such as Joe Wright, Ken Loach, Tom Hooper, Robert De Niro, Andrei Konchalovsky, David Mamet, Gurinder Chadha, Neil Marshall and Todd Haynes.
He has completed two film scripts as well as a 6-part tv comedy Oh Brother which is currently under consideration by a major production company.
SWAIN, Martyn
Martyn Swain, an award winning score composer and songwriter, comes from a ‘rock ‘n roll’ background having joined The Waterboys back in 1987 and went on to work with major superstars, including David Bowie. Credits include Reichenbach Falls, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, The Rotters Club, Belonging and more…