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Sleepwalk With Me, scored by Andrew Hollander and music supervised by Anthony Roman, won Best of NEXT Audience Award at Sundance!

The film is written and directed by Mike Birbiglia, which tells the story of a burgeoning stand-up comedian who struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.

Check out the great reviews below:

Sundance Review – Jason Bailey
EW.com’s Sundance 2012’s Must-See Movies
Flavorwire.com’s 10 Most Anticipated Sundance Movies

Brian Reitzell has scored some music for an upcoming art installation by Elizabeth Price.

West Hinder is a film inspired by a cargo ship that took 2,862 luxury cars down with it when it sank in an unlegislated area of the English Channel in 2002. The installation will premiere at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England.

For more information on the artist, please visit this link.

Check out Peymon Maskan’s interview with Hit Quarters!

I used to approach films with a perspective of putting together a bunch of cool bands that will make people buy the soundtrack. That’s still important, but my motivation nowadays is more about storytelling

To read the article, please follow this link.

Higher Ground, scored by Alec Puro, will be available on Blu-ray Tuesday January 10.

The critically-acclaimed film, directed by Vera Farmiga and starring Farmiga, Joshua Leonard, and John Hawkes, depicts one woman’s crisis of faith, and her quest to find her own identity and a spiritual sanctuary that will give her life hope and meaning.

Released by Sony Classics, Higher Ground debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, and was also screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Click here to read a great review from Variety, and here for a review from The Hollywood Reporter.

In other news, Alec is currently scoring The First Time directed by Jon Kasdan.

The First Time, scored by Alec Puro and directed by Jon Kasdan, has been selected for Sundance’s Dramatic Competition.

And Sleepwalk With Me, scored by Andrew Hollander and music supervised by Anthony Roman, will premiere at Sundance.


Click here to read more about the festival.

Congratulations to Alex Heffes who won Discovery of the Year at the 2011 World Soundtrack Awards for his work on The First Grader and The Rite!

Also nominated for Discovery of the Year was iZLER, for his scores to The Hammer and Natural Selection. The award is given to emerging film composing talent to commemorate an excellent piece of musical work (click here to read about the nominees).

The World Soundtrack Awards were held at the Ghent International Film Festival on Saturday, October 22nd. Abel Korzeniowski, the winner of last year’s World Soundtrack Discovery Award, took the stage during the ceremony to perform his award-winning music from A Single Man, which also earned him the Public Choice Award in 2010.

To view the photo album, please click here.

iZLER is featured in ABC’s Music Lounge for his work on their new hit series Revenge.

Click here to check out some great behind the scenes footage of iZLER discussing the music for the series.


The score will be available for free download beginning Wednesday November 2 at 7:00 PM PST. Follow this link to get the download at the designated time.

Check out this great behind-the-scenes video from The Wind Gods recording session, scored by Pinar Toprak!

Pinar Toprak – The Wind Gods “Final Race-1851”




For more information on Pinar, please visit her website: http://www.pinartoprak.com.

Dan Licht will receive Composer of the Year at the Third Annual Russian Horror Film Awards.

Dan is being honored for his body of work in the horror genre, which includes the filmsThinner and Children of the Corn, as well as the hit Showtime series Dexter and upcoming Konami video game Silent Hill: Downpour.



The ceremony will take place on January 28 in Moscow.

Congratulations to Abel Korzeniowski, nominated for Best Original Score for his work on W.E which has just begun it’s limited release!


Thanks go out to the HFPA for recognizing this incredibly beautiful, multi-thematic score.


and Congratulations Abel, on your tremendous achievement!



In addition to Best Original Score, W.E also received a Best Original Song nomination for Masterpiece, by Madonna, Julie Frost, and Jimmy Harry, with a string arrangement by Abel.



In other Golden Globe news, Boss, scored and music supervised by Brian Reitzell, has been nominated for Best Drama Series. Brian’s minimalist score containing elements of music concrete played a significant role in creating an identity for the series.

The second season of Shameless, scored by iZLER, premieres this Sunday 1/8 at 9 PM EST/PST!







For more information, please visit the show’s official website.

Brian Reitzell is scoring and music supervising the upcoming Starz series Boss, starring Kelsey Grammer as a devious Chicago mayor with a dark secret. Acclaimed filmmaker Gus Van Sant will be directing the first episodes.


Be sure to catch the season finale, airing this Friday at 10 PM EST/PST, featuring an epic 22 minute cue!

The Hollywood Reporter has a great article on Boss. The show has been picked up for a second season.

The First Grader, scored by Alex Heffes and Buck, scored by David Robbins with music from Mark Orton, are nominated for the Audience Award at the 2011 Gotham Independent Film Awards! This award celebrates audience award winners from across the Top 50 US and Canadian film festivals.

And Higher Ground, scored by Alec Puro, is up for Breakthrough Director (Vera Farmiga).

For more information on the nominees, please click here.

Check out iZLER’s Revenge composer blog, featured on ABC.com!

ABC Music Lounge – Revenge composer blog with iZLER



iZLER’s original score is also available from ABC in an exclusive 24-hour free download. Follow this link to get the download now!

Erran Baron Cohen is returning to Los Angeles to begin work on The Dictator.

Directed by Larry Charles and starring Sacha Baron Cohen, the comedy tells the heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy never comes to the country he so lovingly oppressed.





The Dictator will be released later this year.

Meshell Ndegeocello played a show at El Rey Theater on Friday January 6, featuring songs from her latest album Weather.

The LA Times posted a great review of her fantastic show – Click Here to read it.

Meshell’s album is available through Amazon.com.

Rob Simonsen is wrapping up the score to Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World, which he co-composed with Jonathan Sadoff.

The comedy, directed by Lorene Scafaria, stars Steve Carrell and Keira Knightley as two neighbors who embark on a road trip to find Steve’s high school sweetheart before an incoming asteroid ends all life on Earth



Jonathan Sadoff and Lorene Scarfaria are in the band The Shortcoats, whose debut EP This Time Last Year is out now.

A Warrior’s Heart, scored by Alec Puro and directed by Mike Sears, hits theaters Friday December 2. The film stars Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz (click here to read more).

In other news, Alec’s project The Art of Getting By is now available on Blu-ray and DVD.

Risers are featured in The Gap’s Joy It Up Mixtape on Facebook!

Check out their track Current Affair, which can be accessed at The Gap’s Facebook page.