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Film Fest Gent announces second wave of 2024 World Soundtrack Awards nominees

Film Fest Gent announces second wave of 2024 World Soundtrack Awards nominees

WSA2024 Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Academy reveal the second wave of nominees for the 24th World Soundtrack Awards, the annual culmination of FFG and one of the most prestigious events for film music around the globe. The list includes up-and-coming talents such as classical composer Caroline Shaw and BAFTA nominee Tom Salta,...
SoundTrack_Zurich Programme is now online!

SoundTrack_Zurich Programme is now online!

Four high profile composers at SoundTrack_Zurich 05 HOWARD SHORE, STEVEN PRICE, DELPHINE MALAUSSÉNA and ŁUKASZ ROSTKOWSKI Featuring almost 70 speakers and 30 case studies, workshops, talks, networking activities, concerts, and film screenings, the 5th edition of SoundTrack_Zurich (STZ) offers a wide range of events aiming to empower the intersection between the music and the film,...
15-17 OCTOBER 2024, WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS MUSIC DAYS

15-17 OCTOBER 2024, WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS MUSIC DAYS

Elliot Goldenthal, Nainita Desai and Martin Phipps headline WSA Film Music Days 2024 Film Fest Gent proudly presents the programme of the 2024 WSA Film Music Days, from 15 until 17 October. Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Elliot Goldenthal (Frida, Alien³, Batman Forever) will look back at the milestones of his career during a unique Composer’s...
ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL : MUSIC FOR FILM

ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL : MUSIC FOR FILM

Brussels Philharmonic Conducted by Dirk Brossé / Presented by Film Fest Gent Film Fest Gent proudly presents Elliot Goldenthal: Music for Film, the film festival’s 2024 album with all-new studio recordings of selected scores by Elliot Goldenthal, performed by Brussels Philharmonic and conducted by Film Fest Gent music director Dirk Brossé.American composer Elliot Goldenthal has...
SoundTrack_Cologne Announces Line-Up For 2024 Festival

SoundTrack_Cologne Announces Line-Up For 2024 Festival

SoundTrack_Cologne 21  SAVE THE DATE: July 02 – July 05, 2024  SoundTrack_Cologne has announced its highly anticipated line-up for this year’s festival, taking place from July 2nd to July 5th, 2024. The festival promises an array of insightful workshops, discussions, and special events featuring some of the most renowned names in the industry.   Lifetime Achievement...
WORLD SOUNDTRACK ACADEMY ANNOUNCES 2ND WAVE OF NOMINEES

WORLD SOUNDTRACK ACADEMY ANNOUNCES 2ND WAVE OF NOMINEES

The World Soundtrack Academy announces a new wave of nominees for the prestigious World Soundtrack Awards 2021: Nainita Desai and Natalie Holt are piling up the nominations and Gavin Brivik and Amelia Warner, no strangers to the WSA, return to the competition this year as possible winners of the Discovery of the Year and Public...
FILM MUSIC PRAGUE 2019 - PANELS & WORKSHOPS

FILM MUSIC PRAGUE 2019 – PANELS & WORKSHOPS

As previously announced, the 8th edition of Film Music Prague Festival, is about to start in a few days (1-4.2.2019), offering, as every year, an impressive line-up of concerts, side events  and special guests! Kinetophone is since 2017 a proud partner and supporter of Film Music Prague Festival and it’s a great honor this year  for Eleni Mitsiaki, Kinetophone’s founder and editor-in chief to be a...
12th FMF KRAKOW FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL - PROGRAM REVEALED!

12th FMF KRAKOW FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL – PROGRAM REVEALED!

Alexandre Desplat, Craig Armstrong, Bruno Coulais, Antonio Sánchez, Don Davis, Krzysztof Zanussi, Antoni Komasa-Łazarkiewicz, Bartosz Chajdecki and Marcin Masecki are just some of the guests of the forthcoming Krakow Film Music Festival. The programme of the 12th FMF is a cornucopia of diversity! We recall the considerable impact Wojciech Kilar made on the history of...
InMics Composers Lab - Intensive International Training Programme for Young Screen Composers

InMics Composers Lab – Intensive International Training Programme for Young Screen Composers

                            This month, the first academic year of the International Master in Composition for Screen (InMICS) will officially commence. This brand-new international master’s degree is dedicated to  students wishing to work as composers for audiovisual media and will also include a challenging training programme:...
18th WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS Announces 2nd Wave of Nominees

18th WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS Announces 2nd Wave of Nominees

GHENT, 12 September 2018. After revealing the nominees for Best Film Composer, TV Composer and Song, the World Soundtrack Academy announces a second wave of nominees for Best Original Score for a Belgian production, Discovery of the Year, SABAM Award for best Young International Composer and the Public Choice Award. Remarkable is that the nominees for...
SOUNDTRACK COLOGNE 15 ANNOUNCES COMPOSER LINE-UP FOR MUSIC IN FILM DAY

SOUNDTRACK COLOGNE 15 ANNOUNCES COMPOSER LINE-UP FOR MUSIC IN FILM DAY

With Jed Kurzel (“Alien: Covenant”), Tamar-kali (“Mudbound”) and Joseph Trapanese (“TRON: Uprising”), SoundTrack_Cologne completes the line-up for the theme day “Music in Film” on August 24th, 2018. SoundTrack_Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award winner 2018, Craig Armstrong (“Moulin Rouge!”), was already confirmed as a speaker before. Joseph Trapanese is best known for his electronic score work for blockbuster films like Oblivion, TRON: Uprising, Straight Outta Compton and the Raid series (with Linkin...
HOLLYWOOD DREAMS FILM MUSIC CONCERT  TO TAKE PLACE AUGUST 9th IN BADEN, NEAR VIENNA

HOLLYWOOD DREAMS FILM MUSIC CONCERT TO TAKE PLACE AUGUST 9th IN BADEN, NEAR VIENNA

Hollywood Music Workshop celebrates its 10th Anniversary with iconic film music from Warner Bros. from Casablanca to Indiana Jones, Harry Potter and more An enchanting and magical evening with iconic melodies from the Hollywood dream factory Thursday, August 9th, 2018; 7:30 PM Casino Baden Hollywood Music Workshop directors Dimitrie Leivici and Lilo Belloto announced today that...
DUSTIN O'HALLORAN AND HAUSCHKA BRING THEIR 'CINEMATIC COLLABORATION' TO VIDEODROOM (WSA 2018, GENT)

DUSTIN O’HALLORAN AND HAUSCHKA BRING THEIR ‘CINEMATIC COLLABORATION’ TO VIDEODROOM (WSA 2018, GENT)

Longtime friends and first-time collaborators Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka complete the line-up for VIDEODROOM. They will improvise on the themes of Lion, the 2016 Garth Davis drama they scored together. This Oscar-nominated score will serve as the starting point of the concert. Hauschka and O’Halloran will musically challenge each other, each at their own piano. ‘Cinematic...
FILM FEST GENT AND VOORUIT LAUNCH NEW  FESTIVAL VIDEODROOM

FILM FEST GENT AND VOORUIT LAUNCH NEW FESTIVAL VIDEODROOM

On 10 October, Vooruit and Film Fest Gent will launch the first edition of VIDEODROOM. During the upcoming Film Fest Gent (9-19 Oct 2018) and at cultural arts centre Vooruit, artists and audiences will explore a new universe at the intersection between music, films and visuals. Film scores will be reworked and well-known films and...
THE WITCHER 3 AT THE VIDEO GAMES MUSIC GALA in FMF KRAKOW 2018

THE WITCHER 3 AT THE VIDEO GAMES MUSIC GALA in FMF KRAKOW 2018

Good news for all fans of games and adventures of the famous Geralt of Rivia. CD PROJEKT RED received the title of FMF Ambassador 2018, and the Video Games Music Gala will feature a suite from The Witcher 3. A special version of the suite was premiered during this year’s FIMUCITÉ Festival in Tenerife. Marcin Przybyłowicz, composer and...
11th KRAKOW FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL 2018 - PROGRAMME AND SPECIAL GUESTS!

11th KRAKOW FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL 2018 – PROGRAMME AND SPECIAL GUESTS!

Compositions by Krzysztof Penderecki, Elliot Goldenthal, Michael Nyman, Jeff Beal, Clint Mansell, Antoni Komasa-Łazarkiewicz, Radzimir Dębski and Sandro di Stefano, film shows of Casino Royale and Beauty and the Beast with music performed live, a club concert of songs from Pedro Almodóvar’s movies and funk&folk variations from Iceland, Video Game Music Gala with the recent titles such as Assassin’s Creed orSilent Hill –...
MICHAEL NYMAN THE 4TH WINNER OF THE WOJCIECH KILAR AWARD

MICHAEL NYMAN THE 4TH WINNER OF THE WOJCIECH KILAR AWARD

The Jury of the Kilar Award granted the award to the British artist for his ability to create musical metaphors, helping the spectator to read between the lines. Attention to ethics and traditions of composing art, the originality of the musical language, creative versatility, technical mastery, legibility and autonomy of soundtracks – are the main...