Media Scoring — Feature Films
20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL
Directed by Mstyslav Chernov
Told through the perspective of Ukrainian-born director and AP video journalist Mstyslav Chernov, 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL is a visceral, first-person view of the early days of Russia’s invasion of the city of Mariupol, Ukraine. (PBS FRONTLINE/AP News, 2023)
Premiered domestically at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah; nominated for the Grand Jury Prize and winner of the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary.
Premiered internationally at the 2023 CPH:DOX Film Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark and nominated for a F:ACT Award.
Composer, performer, arranger, recording engineer, music editor
Oscar Award for Best Documentary — shortlisted for Best International Film
BAFTA Award for Best Documentary and nomination for Best Film Not in the English Language
Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival
2023 Pulitzer Prize Award for Public Service for the AP reporting that led to the creation of 20 Days in Mariupol
Best Production Award at the 2024 Cinema Eye Honors
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary Award at the 2024 Director’s Guild of America (DGA) Awards
Best Political Documentary and Best First Feature Documentary at the 2023 Critics Choice Awards
Documentary of the Year Award at the 2024 London Critics’ Circle Awards
Audience Award at the 2023 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
Top 5 Documentaries of 2023 from The National Board of Review
Winner of a duPont-Columbia Award from Columbia University
National Society of Film Critics honorable mention for Best Nonfiction Film
Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up Competition Award at the Cleveland International Film Festival
Most Valuable Documentary of the Year Award at the Cinema for Peace Awards in Berlin, Germany
Camera Operator of the Year: Mstyslav Chernov at the Royal Television Society 2023 Awards in Great Britain (including nominations for both Scoop of the Year and News Coverage — International).
Best International Film — Honorable Mention at the DocAviv Film Festival in Tel Aviv
Docu/Ukraine Main Prize as well as the Audience Award at the 2023 DocuDays Festival in Kiev, Ukraine
Tim Hetherington Award at the Sheffield DocFest 2023
Best International Director and Best Editing (Michelle Minzer) at the Doc Edge Festival in Auckland, New Zealand
Best Documentary and Discovery of the Year awards at the 2023 Kyiv’s Critic Week International Film Festival in Ukraine
Special Mention for International Documentary Competition at the 2023 Athens International Film Festival
SHAKEN
Directed by Asher Levinthal
Following a seizure, a father is arrested after his daughter is hospitalized and stabilized, a doctor claims that her episode could only be the result of severe abuse, and prosecutors arrest the father.
Premiered domestically at the 2023 DOC NYC Film Festival in New York City, NY.
Co-composer (with Brian McOmber), music editor, recording engineer, performer, string arranger, programmer
FAIR PLAY
Directed by Chloe Domont
Hot off the heels of their new engagement, thriving New York couple Emily and Luke can't get enough of each other. When a coveted promotion at a cutthroat financial firm arises, supportive exchanges between the lovers begin to sour into something more sinister. As the power dynamics irrevocably shift in their relationship, Luke and Emily must face the true price of success and the unnerving limits of ambition. (Netflix, 2023)
Premiered domestically at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.
Premiered internationally at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.
Score conductor, performer, arranger, score producer, additional music
ECHO
Directed by Ruben Desiere
Under the tutelage of commander Walter Van Dyck, young recruits of the Belgian Armed Forces receive their basic military training. By means of role-play, an image of their future as professional soldiers steadily appears. Echo meticulously documents this intentional metamorphosis. (Avila Films, 2022)
Premiered internationally at the 2022 Film Festival Gent in Ghent, Belgium with a Special Mention by the Youth Jury.
Composer, performer, arranger, recording engineer, music editor
GLOBES
Directed by Nina de Vroome
Caught in a dance, bees tell each other stories about the world around them. People equally claim their role in those stories, sometimes very close and intimate, sometimes distant and on an industrial scale. Nina de Vroome's thoughts also swarm as bees do: from the smallest cell in a honeycomb to the global economy, her essayistic nature documentary Globes charts the bond between humans and bees. As accomplished storytellers, they both give shape to lives under the sun. (Avila Films, 2021)
Premiered internationally at the 2021 Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (IDFF) in Prague, Czech Republic and domestically at the 2022 Woodstock Film Festival in Woodstock, NY.
Composer, performer, arranger, recording engineer, music editor
BLOW THE MAN DOWN
Directed by Danielle Krudy and Bridget Savage Cole
While grieving for the loss of their mother, the Connolly Sisters suddenly find they have a crime to cover up, leading them deep into the underbelly of their salty Maine fishing village. (Amazon Studios, 2020)
Premiered domestically at the 2019 TriBeCa Film Festival and internationally at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
Co-composer, performer, arranger, recording engineer, audio editor
Awards
Winner of Best Screenplay at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.
Winner of Best-Reviewed Thriller of 2020 at the 2021 Golden Tomato Awards.
Nominated for Best First Screenplay at the 2020 Independent Spirit Awards.
HAIL SATAN?
Directed by Penny Lane
When media-savvy members of the Satanic Temple organize a series of public actions designed to advocate for religious freedom and challenge corrupt authority, they prove that with little more than a clever idea, a mischievous sense of humor, and a few rebellious friends, you can speak truth to power in some truly profound ways. As charming and funny as it is thought-provoking, Hail Satan? offers a timely look at a group of often misunderstood outsiders whose unwavering commitment to social and political justice has empowered thousands of people around the world. (Magnolia Pictures, 2019)
Premiered domestically at 2018 Sundance Film Festival and internationally at the 2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
Featured composer, performer, arranger, recording engineer, audio editor
IT COMES AT NIGHT
Directed by Trey Edward Shults
After an apocalypse leaves the world with few survivors, two families are forced to share a home in an uneasy alliance to keep the outside evil at bay — only to learn that the true horror may come from within. Starring Joel Edgerton, Carmen Ejogo, Christopher Abbott and Riley Keough. (A24, 2017)
Premiered at the 2017 Overlook Film Festival.
Assistant composer, performer, string arranger, recording engineer, music editor
NO GOING BACK BEFORE PRESENT
Directed by Jordan Dykstra
No Going Back Before Present poetically explores the Anthropocentrically-based impact of humans on the Earth by viewing it from the sky. NGBBP was filmed entirely in beautiful 4k resolution on location in Southern California at Lake Piru in the Los Padres National Park, the Chiquita Canyon Sanitary Landfill in Castaic, the Del Valle Oil and Gas Field in Val Verde, and both the Petrochem Refinery and the Water Purification Plant in Ventura. (Editions Verde, 2016)
Premiered at the 2018 College of the Environment Think Tank “Facing Disaster: Disturbing the Human-Environment Relationship” at Wesleyan University.
Composer, performer, recording engineer, audio editor
RESTLESS
Directed by Gus van Sant
Having lost his parents in a terrible accident several years ago, Enoch (Henry Hopper) tries to cope with their deaths by hanging out with a ghost named Hiroshi (Ryô Kase) and attending the funerals of strangers. At one such funeral, he meets Annabel (Mia Wasikowska), a young woman facing her own imminent demise. As the pair fall in love, Enoch encourages Annabel to adopt a devil-may-care attitude toward death and to live her remaining life to the fullest. (Sony Classics, 2011)
Premiered internationally at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
Additional composer, performer
Media Scoring — Television / Web Series
INSIDE THE UVALDE RESPONSE
Directed by Juanita Ceballos
Drawing on real-time, firsthand accounts and using official bodycam and audio, FRONTLINE, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reconstruct the chaotic response to the Uvalde school shooting and examine the missteps. The documentary delves into the lessons learned and the lingering trauma of that day. (PBS FRONTLINE, 2023)
Composer, arranger, performer, recording engineer, music editor
MICHAEL FLYNN’S HOLY WAR
Directed by Rick Rowley
In “Michael Flynn’s Holy War,” FRONTLINE and the Associated Press examine how the retired three-star general and first national security adviser to former President Donald Trump has emerged as a leader in a far-right movement that seeks to put its brand of Christianity at the center of American civic life and institutions and is attracting election deniers, conspiracists and extremists from around the country. (PBS FRONTLINE, 2022)
Composer, arranger, performer, conductor, recording engineer, music editor
Awards
Winner of a 2023 Peabody Award.
Winner of a 2023 Scrips Award for Excellence in National/International Video Storytelling.
PLOT TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION
Directed by Sam Black
One year after President Biden's inauguration, more than two thirds of Republican voters believe his election was illegitimate — and the idea that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump is now a defining issue of the Republican Party. Yet the story of how lies about election fraud made their way to the center of American politics has not been fully told. Now, in new investigative collaboration, FRONTLINE and ProPublica trace one of the hidden sources of disinformation about the 2020 election and demonstrate how a handful of people have had an outsized impact on the current crisis of democratic legitimacy in the United States. (PBS FRONTLINE, 2022)
Composer, performer, recording engineer, music editor
Winner of a 2023 Walter Cronkite Award for excellence in television political journalism. (press release)
Winner of the 2023 Edward R. Murrow Award for Network TV News Documentary.
DOCUMENTING HATE
Directed by Richard Rowley
In the Emmy Award-winning Documenting Hate: Charlottesville, FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the white supremacists and neo-Nazis involved in the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally — and reveal just how ill-prepared law enforcement was to handle an influx of white supremacists from across the country. So far, the Documenting Hate series has three episodes. (PBS FRONTLINE, 2018-2021)
Music consultant, recording engineer, music editor
WATCH PART 1 — DOCUMENTING HATE: CHARLOTTESVILLE (2018)
WATCH PART 2 — DOCUMENTING HATE: NEW AMERICAN NAZIS (2018)
WATCH PART 3 — AMERICAN INSURRECTION (2021)
DOCUMENTING HATE PROPUBLICA WEBSITE
Awards
Documenting Hate: Charlottesville won a 2019 News and TV Emmy Award.
American Insurrection won nominated for a 2022 Peabody Award.
DIRTY MACHINES — “THE END OF HISTORY”
Directed by David Matthew Olsen
A time traveler takes a tour of "The Birth of Time Travel.” (Future Garbage, 2020)
Composer, performer
Media Scoring — Short Film
LA COLA DEL CAMARÓN
Directed by Oscar De La Torre Suárez
A filmmaker's quest to understand why his father took his own life. (Oscar De La Torre Suárez, 2023)
Premiered domestically at the 2023 Athens International Film Festival in Ohio and internationally at the 2023 Festival Internacional de Cine Guanajuato in San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato City, Mexico.
Composer, performer, arranger, music editor, and programming
ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING
Directed by Morgan Green
A near-future portrait of a woman and her pursuit of belonging. Charlee, a struggling theatre actress in New York City, discovers her biological father online and instead of introducing herself, she stalks him through multiple realities until she is confronted with herself, the person she has actually been looking for. (Morgan Green, 2023)
Premiered internationally at the 2023 Raindance Film Festival in London.
Composer, performer, arranger, music editor, and programming
BALL
Directed by Gabriel Jace Long
A young boy finds clues to his future by encountering an object from his past. (Gabe Long, 2021)
Premiered internationally at the 2021 Berlin Short Film Festival.
Composer, performer, audio editor, programming, and final mastering
WELCOME TO MOSQUITO CITY!
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Get a tour of “Mosquito City,” the world’s largest captive colony of mosquitoes used for researching ways to combat malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases. Day and night scientists work to better understand mosquito behavior and figure out new ways to repel, trap, and kill the world’s deadliest animal. (Bill Gates, 2020)
Co-composer, performer, arranger
RAINBOW IN THE DARK
Directed by Ben Mosca
An apocalyptic cosmic anti-smoking PSA. (Ben Mosca, 2020)
Nominated for Best Score at the 2020 Diabolical Horror Film Festival.
Composer, performer, audio editor, sound design, and mastering
PLAYER ONE
Directed by Isabelle Platt
When Madi finds herself in need of help, her friends answer the call. But how can Madi deal with her problem when he won’t pick up? (Isabelle Platt, 2020)
Premiered domestically at the 2020 New Faces New Voices Film Festival.
Composer, performer, arranger, audio editor, sound mixing and mastering
INTO THE SILVER ETHER
Directed by Vito A. Rowlands
A photographer peers into the souls of his subjects from behind the lens but can’t let go of one particular muse. (Vito A. Rowlands, 2020)
Premiered domestically at the 2021 Brooklyn Film Festival and internationally at the 2020 Raindance Film Festival.
Composer, performer, arranger, music editor
MAGIC HOUR
Directed by Che Grayson
Bella is a peculiar woman labeled a monster by the man who created her. Trapped in a hotel room, she braves the outside world where she meets Eiko. Will Bella successfully break free from her creator and find her humanity? Or will she fall prey to his deadly prophecy? (Che Grayson, 2020)
Premiered at the 2020 TriBeCa Film Festival.
Composer, performer, audio editor
STILL LIFE WITH WATER
Directed by Jordan Dykstra
A filmic realization of George Brecht’s text score WATER, “Still Life With Water” allows the Connecticut River to become the performer. (Jordan Dykstra, 2017)
Composer, performer, filmmaker
Media Scoring — Animation
CLANGS FOR THE SPEAKING BODY
Directed by Angela Stempel
Inspired by the choreographic qualifications of Labanotation, a range of textures and relationships between sound and movement are presented for discovery and play. The interdisciplinary piece — an ode to the rich history of visual music — was realized as an interactive installation where the audience triggers animation and sound via their movements in a space. (Angela Stempel, 2015)
Premiered at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Composer, performer, audio editor
Media Scoring — Live Scoring
Конец Санкт-Петербурга (THE END OF ST. PETERSBURG)
Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin (1927)
The End of St. Petersburg is a political film, explaining why and how the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917. The film covers the period from about 1913 to 1917. The film does not show the political figures of the time; the emphasis is on the struggle of ordinary people for their rights and for peace against the power of capital and the autocracy.
Performed at Columbia University, New York City, 2022
Composer, performer
Der müde Tod (DESTINY)
Directed by Fritz Lang (1921)
This silent German Expressionist fantasy romance film was directed by Fritz Lang and inspired by the Indian folktale of Savitri. The film follows a woman desperate to reunite with her dead lover. It also follows three other tragic romances, set in a Middle Eastern city; in Venice, Italy; and in the Chinese Empire.
Performed at Columbia University, New York City, 2022
Composer, performer
HÄXAN
Directed by Benjamin Christensen (1922)
A hybrid of documentary and fiction, this silent film explores the history of witchcraft, demonology and satanism. It shows representations of evil in a variety of ancient and medieval artworks, offers vignettes illustrating a number of superstitious practices and presents a narrative about the persecution of a woman accused of witchcraft. The film ends by suggesting that the modern science of psychology offers important insight into the beliefs and practices of the past. (Criterion Collection)
Performed at Columbia University, New York City, 2020
Composer, performer
HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC
Directed by Harry Everett Smith (1957)
A heroine has a toothache and loses a watermelon before she is transported to heaven. (Mystic Fire Video)
Performed at the Hollywood Theater, Portland, OR, 2013
Composer, performer
UN CHIEN ANDALOU
Directed by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí (1929)
Co-written by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, this silent film was made completely according to surrealist principles and includes some of the most searing and memorable images ever filmed. (Les Grands Films Classiques)
Performed at Bamboo Grove Salon, Portland, OR, 2012
Composer, performer
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN
Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky (1973)
A Mexican master (Alexandro Jodorowsky) leads a Christ figure (Horacio Salinas) and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men. (ABKCO Films)
Performed at Holocene, Portland, OR, 2009
Composer, performer