Actor and all-round legend Firass Dirani has just released his short film ‘Bang! Bang!’, which I worked on last year. Action packed and deliciously absurd, this one was heaps of fun to score. Check it out, share wide and spread the word dammit!
Watch the film above.
The first trailer for director Xu Shunli’s The Longest Shot has been released. Looks pretty great too.
And no, before you ask the music in the trailer is not mine nor Burkhard’s 🙁
Check it out above.
Great news. I recently had the honour of co-composing the feature score to The Longest Shot with multiple award-winning composer Burkhard Dallwitz (The Truman Show, Underbelly, The Secret River)
The Longest Shot is a massive Chinese/Australian co-production, shot in Melbourne and Shanghai directed by Xu Shunli and starring Chinese box office star Wang Zhiwen alongside an ensemble of Chinese and International talent including Yu Nan, Zu Yajun, Lee Li-Chun and Kao Kuo-Hsin, along with Sabien Lucciarini, Christopher Downs and Koniukhov Konstantin.
We had the budget to record a live orchestra with a 40 piece string section, plus woodwinds, brass and harp and managed to do some really interesting things with orchestration thanks to the hugely talented Erkki Veltheim who made sense of our mockups. The score was mixed in 5.1 surround by Christian Scallan and it sounds great. Hopefully we’ll get a soundtrack release down the track.
Here are some pics from the recording session. Burkhard is at the back, Christian at the desk and Erkki at the side
For anyone who missed it first time around, our documentary on the dedicated homicide detectives who brought Jill Meagher’s killer to justice is getting re-screened by the ABC this Tuesday at 8:30pm. It’s being repeated in light of our Logie win for Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Program last week.
Humbled to have worked on this one. Feel emotional for Terry Carlyon, the director. Well deserved is an understatement.
Well, the 2017 Logie nominations are out and we just scored nominations for our ABC Documentary Conviction, and our Network Ten series Todd Sampson’s Body Hack
Both Conviction and Body Hack were nominated in the the peer voted category ‘Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Program’, and Body Hack was also nominated for ‘Best Factual Program’. Congrats to all involved in both productions, particularly the Director / Producer of Conviction Terry Carlyon, and Chris Thorburn, series producer of Body Hack!
Our documentary film Conviction was just announced as a finalist for a 2016 Quill Award in the ‘TV / Video Feature (Long form)’ category by the Melbourne Press Club. Congrats to Terry Carlyon and John Silvester on the nomination.
Hey guys. I’ve recently completed the score for a short film for this guy…
It’s called “Bang! Bang!”. It has amazing fight scenes and is funny as hell. Can’t wait for you to see it.
Todd Sampson’s Body Hack begins tonight! 9pm on Network TEN and WIN regionally each Tuesday for the next 6 weeks.
Tonight, Todd gets punched. A lot…
I have just picked up an Australian Screen Music Awards nomination for the season 3 Mako Mermaids episode ‘Homecoming’ in the category ‘Best Music for Children’s Television’. Very proud! Congrats also to Ricky Edwards, my co-composer, and to all the other nominees. A full list can be found here.
