Scored by Stephen Rennicks “The Quiet Girl” (“An Cailín Ciúin”) last night took home The Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury for Best Film - and also received a Special Mention from the Children’s Jury at Berlinale. This remarkable film follows the story of nine-year-old Cáit, who was sent away from a crowded, dysfunctional family to live with her foster parents for the summer. It's here that Cáit gets a glimpse of another way of living, as she grows close to her hosts and slowly unravels a painful truth. Huge congrats to writer and director Colm Bairéad and the rest of the cast & crew.
Best Score Award for Nikolaj Torp Larsen with "How to Stop a Recurring Dream"
Nikolaj Torp Larsen picked up the Jury Award for Best Score at Michigan’s Hell’s Half Mile Film and Music Festival last night. Best performance in a Drama went to Ruby Barker, and Lily-Rose Aslandogdu picked up Best Supporting Performance in a Drama. Congrats to Writer/Director Ed Morris and the rest of the team. Was such a pleasure to work on this film!
Exciting European premiere of "Leo Grande"
Scored by Stephen Rennicks, the charming comedy "Leo Grande” fascinates visitors of the first in-person Berlinale in two years. Directed by Sophie Hyde, Emma Thompson and Daryl Mccormack convince with an emotionally generous performance. In this heartwarming and amusing story, Thompson as a former teacher hires a sex worker seeking sexual gratification.
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Catching up with Tristan Bechet and his collaboration with Karen O
We just caught up with Tristan Bechet aka TRZTN about his collaboration with Karen O, which recently featured on the new Gossip Girl reboot.
Tristan says - "Karen O and I have known each other since our formative years as young art-frazzled NYC rockers. Time and again our paths collide in service of a project where our respective musical strengths, albeit from different dimensions, come together in serendipitous ways. I never know what to expect when we collaborate apart from a feeling in the belly that "it will be dope. Hieroglyphs' cements my album's theme of trans-dimensional, surreal journeys. I sent her a simple sketch which she then recorded her poetic, whimsical lyrics setting the tone for what's to come. Her siren-like wails and dream-like approach added the spatial dimension. I embarked on a phantasmagorical way of production without holding back - sculpting sound, more than composing conventionally. I recorded clangs and industrial drums clattering off one another to create something both dissonant and cinematic. The track disintegrates and falls back together like the push and pull of a rubber band stretching.' Hieroglyphs' resembles an odd Lynchian dream state; bizarre and beautiful. A sonic portrait that warbles away into space dust."
Listen to Hieroglyphs in the link below and read Tristan’s full bio HERE.