What's new
• Just finished the music for director Markus Engel's TV ad for Austrian eyewear company PEARLE, and the scores for I OWN YOU, a dark comedy episode by Jeannie Roshar and Gary Anthony Williams (Boondocks, Boston Legal), and IN THE DARK, Alex Fazeli's ambitious action short set in the 1979 revolution in Tehran. Before that I wrote the original music for the Pack Foundation's program GRADUATION DAY, with Dan Rather and Lane Garrison, directed by Andrew Gallery, produced by Rebecca Brown, and the music for VESPERS, my second collaboration with UK filmmakers David Lilley and Steven Gray, otherwise known as Loonatik & Drinks. Go to the music samples page for excerpts of these projects and others .
• THE JURASSIC JOURNEY, the beautiful documentary short by John Dutton about a groundbreaking discovery regarding the migration routes of the leatherback sea turtle, won the Conservation Award at the Santa Barbara Ocean Film Festival 2007. • SNIPS & SNAILS, the comedy short directed by Hilari Scarl and written by Hilari and Gary Anthony Williams, won the AUDIENCE AWARD SHORT FILM at the 2007 DANCES WITH FILMS festival.

• The BBC RADIO 3 is playing tracks from CINEMATIC on Fiona Talkington's adventurous and eclectic 'LATE JUNCTION' program. That's a great show - Thomas Mapfumo, Kronos Quartet, Michael Nyman... Click here for a playlist. And here's another one... And there have been a number of additional spins since. Nice!

At Sundance
• The SUNDANCE INSTITUTE's film music program presented a screening of Film2Music winners and highlights during the 2007 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. Twelve entries were screened, followed by discussion. Film2Music filmmakers in attendance: Grand Prize winner Adrian Picardi, Second Prize winner Peter Borrud, Online Audience Award winner Lisa Temple, as well as Ryan Horner, Ken Palmer and Haynes Brooke. (In the photo: Kubilay Uner (on the left) with Sundance Institute Film Music Program director Peter Golub.) Cinematic CD Film2Music Competition - 94 filmmakers from all over the world listen to the same twelve tracks on CINEMATIC... what do they see? Detailed information on the contest at www.film2music.com.