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  • Alfonso de Vilallonga - Spanish Film Composer - My Life Without Me, Transsiberian, Blancanieves, Abracadabra, The Bookshop

    Alfonso was born in Barcelona studied music writing at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He created the music for several films over the years by Isabel Coixet including Things I Have Never Told You, My Life Without Me, and Yesterday Never Ends. Alfonso's other film scores include Hours of Light, Princesas, Transsiberian, Blancanieves, Abracadabra, and upcoming documentary about palindromes, ¡Viva el palíndromo!. Alfonso's most recent score for Isabel Coixet is the dramatic film The Bookshop, starring Emily Mortimer as a woman struggling to run a business against polite but ruthless small-town opposition.

    30 min
  • Federico Jusid - Argentinian Film Composer - The Secret in Their Eyes, Loving Pablo, Neruda, Isabel, and Life Itself

    Federico is best known for scoring the Oscar-winning film The Secret in Their Eyes, which Federico composed with Emilio Kauderer. He won several international awards for the score, including the award for Best Music from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Argentina.

    Federico's other work includes the Spanish historical fiction series Isabel, as well as Carlos, Rey Emperador, Neruda, and Salvador del Solar's political thriller Magallanes. In addition to scoring film and television, Federico has lent his skills as a multi-instrumentalist to the soundtracks of Misconduct, Kidnap, Black Butterfly, The Hunter's Prayer, and Capitan Koblic. Federico's recent film work includes scoring Spanish dramas such as Loving Pablo, starring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, as well as La noche de 12 anos and Crime Wave. Federico most recently completed the score for Dan Fogelman's drama, Life Itself shot both in New York City and in Spain and the upcoming Watership Down series.

    30 min
  • Grace Yun - Production Designer - Damsels in Distress, Beach Rats, First Reformed, and Hereditary

    Grace earned her BFA at Parsons School of Design, and started her career in the Art Department on films such as Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress and Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk With Me. From there, she moved on to serve as Production Designer on several feature length films, including Paul Schrader's Dog Eat Dog, Eliza Hittman's Beach Rats, Paul Schrader's First Reformed and Ari Aster's Hereditary. In addition to her feature film work, Grace has worked on several commercial projects for clients such as Comcast, Samsung, Google Android, Fisher Price, and Subway. Grace's most recent work was designing Bart Freundlich's retelling of Susanne Bier's After the Wedding starring Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, and Billy Crudup.

    30 min
  • Alexandra Harwood - Film Composer - Neck and Neck, Growing Up Wild, and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

    Alexandra is a classically trained composer, a graduate of the Royal College of Music, The Juilliard School, and the National Film and Television School, and she is a member of the Alliance for Women Film Composers. Recent projects for Alexandra include the scores for award winning animated short, Neck and Neck, directed by Shaun Clark, and Growing Up Wild, a feature documentary for Disney and Netflix USA. One of Alexandra's most recent projects is Mike Newell's acclaimed feature The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, starring Lily James, about a Channel Island haunted by World War II German occupation, based on the best-selling book and distributed by Netflix and StudioCanal.

    30 min
  • Ryan Warren Smith - Production Designer - Wendy and Lucy, Green Room, Lean on Pete, True Detective Season 3, and the upcoming Hold the Dark

    Ryan began his film career as an on-set dresser working alongside high profile directors such as Sean Penn and Gus Van Sant. His first film as Production Designer was Kelly Reichardt's acclaimed film Wendy and Lucy, starring Michelle Williams. Ryan's work as Production Designer on feature films includes the Polsky Brother's The Motel Life, For Ellen, directed by So Yong Kim, Jeremy Saulnier's acclaimed horror film Green Room, and Andrew Haigh's coming of age adventure/drama Lean on Pete. Ryan recently worked again with Jeremy Saulnier on the thriller Hold the Dark, set in Alaska, and Ryan has also been working on Season 3 of the HBO series True Detective.

    30 min
  • Eduardo Serrano - Brazilian Film Editor - Housemaids, August Winds, Elephant's Dream, Neon Bull, Aquarius, and Djon Africa

    Eduardo has a Master's Degree in Editing from the National Film School in England.

    His first feature film, Eles Voltam known as They Will Return for Marcelo Lordello premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival. For Gabriel Mascaro, Eduardo edited Housemaids and August Winds, and the more recently Neon Bull with Fernando Epstein. He also worked at the documentaries The Perfect Belgian and Elephant's Dream for Kristof Bilsen. Eduardo followed this up with the acclaimed Aquarius for Kleber Mendona Filho, that premiered in Cannes and the acclaimed Portuguese docu-drama Djon Africa with debuted at International Film Festival Rotterdam about a young man's journey to Cape Verde to track down the father he has never met.

    30 min
  • Paul Saunderson - British Film Composer and Multi-Instrumentalist - 100 Streets, Starfish, Three Identical Strangers, and The More You Ignore Me

    Paul's work includes Jim O'Hanlon's 100 Streets, Bill Clark's heartbreaking true story, Starfish, Justin Edgar's noir thriller, The Marker, and John Shackleton's psychological gothic horror, The Sleeping Room. More recently, Paul scored the award-winning documentary Three Identical Strangers, the thriller Winter Ridge, and collaborated with musicians Guy Garvey and Peter Jobson on an adaptation of The More You Ignore Me and the comedy/drama Dead in a Week: Or Your Money Back.

    30 min
  • Yves Cape - Belgian Cinematographer - Ma Vie en Rose, The Buffalo Boy, Flanders, White Material, Violette, Chronic, The Midwife, April's Daughter, and The Prayer

    Yves' vocation was inspired by an initial visit to the US before studying photography in Brussels and winning the Prix Dumeunier in 1982 and attending INSAS film school in Brussels. Yves' work on award-winning films over the years includes: Ma Vie en Rose, Humanite, Yellowknife, The Buffalo Boy, Flanders, Persecution, Hadewijch, White Material, Violette, and The Nun. More recently, Yves shot the films: Wild Life, Chronic, The Midwife, April's Daughter, and the upcoming The Prayer.

    30 min
  • Graham Willoughby - Director of Photography - The Black List, 20 Feet from Stardom, The Music of Strangers, Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal, and Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    Graham's television work includes The Black List, Cocaine: A History Between the Lines and Can't Get a Date. He shot the Oscar-winning documentary, 20 Feet from Stardom for Morgan Neville. Graham's has a passions for working with musicians, including Nina Persson of The Cardigans, FisherSpooner, Nicole Atkins and cellist Yo Yo Ma on The Music of Strangers. Graham's further collaborations with Morgan Neville include the documentary films: Keith Richards: Under the Influence, Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal, and the acclaimed Won't You Be My Neighbor? about Fred Rogers.

    30 min
  • Anne Nikitin - Canadian Composer based in the UK - The Imposter, Dark Horse, Sanctuary, American Animals, and Calibre

    Anne has written countless scores for films and TV, starting with the BAFTA-winning thrilling documentary, The Imposter. Other highlights of Anne's work include Dark Horse, Sanctuary (Freistatt), and This Beautiful Fantastic, a modern-day fairytale. Most recently, Anne scored the acclaimed heist film American Animals, the dark thriller Calibre, and the upcoming documentary The Serengeti Rules.

    30 min

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