Film Music Events-Roundtable Discussion

Music and Film, The Creative Process
Produced by BMI
Wednesday, January 22, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.


Sundance House presented by HP
What goes into creating a successful film score? What makes for an effective director-composer relationship? We partner filmmakers and the composers they work with to answer these and other questions in this inspired roundtable discussion moderated by Doreen Ringer-Ross, BMI vice president of film/TV relations. Panelists include composer Craig Wedren and director David Wain (They Came Together), composer Blake Neely and directors Ryan White and Ben Cotner (The Case Against 8), composer Ennis Rotthoff and director David Wnendt (Wetlands), composer Mark Orton and director Sydney Freeland (Drunktown’s Finest), composer Gary Lionelli (Last Days in Vietnam), composer and Sundance Lab Advisor Miriam Cutler and Peter Golub, director of the Sundance Institute Film Music Program, composer Kathryn Bostic and director Justin Simien (Dear White People), composer John Dragonetti and director Brian Knappenberger (The Internet’s Own Boy), composer Keegan DeWitt and director Alex Ross Perry ( Listen Up Philip), and composer Ryan Beveridge and director Sterlin Harjo (This May Be the Last Time).



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