Over the past two months, three-time Emmy-nominated film and television composer Miriam Cutler has mentored four filmmakers and twelve composers to create original scores to scenes from four BC films.
This is your opportunity to hear their final works at a live-to-picture performance featuring 20 members of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. You will also hear from each filmmaker, who will talk about how they collaborated with the composers to deliver and record these scores.
This project is the culmination of the second year of VIFF Amp Music in Media Summit’s Composer Filmmaker Accelerator, which has included online mentorship sessions, orchestration support, and professional recording sessions at Bryan Adams’ iconic Warehouse Studios in Vancouver by Damon Tedesco, head engineer at the historic Newman Scoring Stage in Los Angeles.
Films featured include Wild Goat Surf by Caitlyn Sponheimer, which premiered at VIFF in 2023, along Armageddon Road, an upcoming feature film by Karen Lam, N’xaxaitk’w (2022) by Asia Youngman, and Fadeaway (2024) by Brendan Prost.
Meet the composers and filmmakers from this year’s CFA cohort
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