PRESS KIT About ECSA

PRESS KIT About ECSA The Camille Awards – European Film Composer The European Composer and Songwriter Alliance Awards honour the greatest achievements of (ECSA) represents over 50,000 professional composers European composers of pieces of film and audio- and songwriters in 26 European countries. With 56- visual music. Celebrating both cultural diversity member organisations across Europe, the Alliance and rich musical talent, the awards are speaks for the interests of music creators of art and presented in the three categories: best orchestral classical music (contemporary), film and audio-visual score, best electro-acoustic score and best music, as well as popular music. original music for a series. The main objective of the Alliance is to defend and The ECSA FFACE (Film and Audio- promote the rights of authors of music at the national, Visual Committee), representing twelve European and international levels by any legal means. delegations from fourteen European It advocates for equitable commercial conditions for organisations, is in charge of the nomination composers and songwriters and strives to improve process. Each delegation nominates one social and economic development of music creation in composer per category. Europe. Delegates from these organisations then proceed ECSA was initiated in 2006 in Vienna within the to a first round of votes, reducing the number framework of the Mozartjahr. It was established as an of nominees to three per category. alliance in March 2007 in Madrid with the purpose of becoming the central organization representing the In the third and final phase, an international interests of all music creators in Europe, giving every jury of renowned composers elects their favourite composer and songwriter a European voice. work in each category. Renamed in tribute to Camille Saint-Saëns, ISFMF composer of the first music to be scored for a fiction film (“The Assassination of the Duke of The International Sound & Film Music Guise”), the Camille Awards were launched in Festival (ISFMF) is one of five film music festivals in 2014 as an initiative of ECSA Vice-President the world that every year gathers a number of Bernard Grimaldi as a celebration of European industry professionals, including Oscar-winning film music and its composers. composers, sound designers and filmmakers, as well as eminent producers, publicists, agents and The Awards were officially called “The Grand students. The primal mission of the festival is to Scores” until this year, they were held every promote the importance of film music and film sound, February in the context of the Berlinale, co- and to educate about every aspect of it. By organizing organised by Moët & Chandon. a series of panels, master classes and workshops, the festival tends to give not only the mainstream but also This year’s edition will be held on October 20th the academic approach and create a global network 2018, in the frame of an exciting new that would continually grow. partnership with the International Sound & Film Music Festival in Pula, Croatia. Nominees: Best Orchestral GINGE ANVIK, NO ([email protected]) The Norwegian composer Ginge Anvik, born 1970 in Japan, started out in electronica in 1990, composing for radio-theatre, dance performances and performing at raves and rock festivals with his band SubGud. After 15 years of meandering around Oslo’s musical underground while studying musicology and social anthropology at the University of Oslo, he accidentally ended up scoring his first movie in 2005. Since then, he has scored 23 feature films (with four currently in production) in addition to documentaries, shorts and TV-series using a palette ranging from symphonic to pure electronic and anything in between he finds suitable to tell a story. Moreover, he is an avid astrophotographer, escaping to his observatory in the woods for inspiration on starry nights. LASSE ENERSEN, FI ([email protected]) Born in Hamburg, Germany on November 7th, 1978, Lasse Enersen is a Finnish-Norwegian composer, who studied Composition in Master’s degree program in Sibelius-Academy, 2001- 2004 with Erkki Jokinen and Paavo Heininen. Lasse Enersen won the first prize in the international composers’ competition Waterworks with Agua Nocturna for solo cello and mixed choir. He also did additional music and arranging work for Alexandre Desplat, Abel Korzeniowski, Max Richter and Heitor Pereira, as well as numerous strings arrangements for top Finnish artists, including Radioplay Number 1 hits in Sweden and Germany. Aku Louhimies’ Unknown Soldier (2018) with Lasse Enersen score won the audience award for best movie at Jussi Gala. Unknown Soldier sold over 1 million tickets in Finland, making it the biggest box office hit in Finland for any movie in last 50 years. Upcoming movies: two tentpole movies with director Renny Harlin for Ali Baba Picture and Wanda Pictures in China, Legend of the Ancient Sword and Bodies at Rest. DARIO MARIANELLI, UK ([email protected]) Dario Marianelli was born in Pisa and studied piano and composition in Florence and London. After a year as a postgraduate composer at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he spent 3 years at the National Film and Television School, from which he graduated in 1997. Dario’s film scores include “Paddington 2” (2017), “Anna Karenina” (2012), “Jane Eyre” (2011), “Atonement” (2007), “V for Vendetta” (2006) and “Pride and Prejudice” (2005) and many more. Dario won the Oscar, Golden Globe and Ivor Novello Award in the Best Original Score category for the award-winning Working Title film “Atonement”, for which he also won the World Soundtrack Award and was BAFTA nominated. Dario’s collaboration with Joe Wright on the film “Anna Karenina” led to his nomination for an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe for Best Original Score, and in May 2013, he won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Film Score for “Anna Karenina”. He has recently completed work on the score to his second Laika animation, “Kubo and the Two Strings”, for which he won an Ivor Novello Award, and also worked on his fifth film collaboration with director Asif Kapadia on live action feature “Ali and Nino”. In 2017, Dario continued his working relationship with Joe Wright on “Darkest Hour” and also scoring Paul King’s “Paddington 2”. Best Electro- Acoustic OLA FLØTTUM, NO ([email protected]) Ola Fløttum made his debut as a film composer in 2005, after the Norwegian director Joachim Trier discovered Fløttum´s music through the albums of The White Birch and Portrait of David, and headhunted him for his first feature film “Reprise”. Their collaboration continued, and includes Triers feature film “Louder Than Bombs”, which participated in the Palme d´Or selection in Cannes 2015. On Triers latest film “Thelma”, Fløttum received an Oscar short- listing for his score, as well as several prizes like «Kanonprisen» and Norwegian Film Critics Award. Fløttum also scored Ruben Östlund´s Golden Globe nominated feature film “Force Majeure”. Fløttum won the music prize “Prix de la Creation Musicale” at Premiers Plans Festival d´Angers in France for Best Soundtrack for the film Reprise in 2007. He was nominated for “Kanonprisen” in Norway the same year. Fløttum has also won Spellemannsprisen (Norwegian Grammy Award) in 2002 with Salvatore for the album “Tempo”. Fløttum released his first album in 1996 and has since then released 10 albums with The White Birch, Portrait of David and Salvatore. He has received numerous rave reviews in countries all over the world. With his background as a music artist, Fløttum has become a distinct film composer with a unique signature, working on several highly acclaimed films in Norway and Sweden, films that have been receiving prizes at many important festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Toronto. Fløttum has composed the score music for 13 feature films (8 Norwegian, 4 Swedish and 1 German) and contributed with music from The White Birch on 6 feature films. He has also scored several short films, documentaries, commercials and written music for theatre. LUCIO GODOY& ADRIAN FOULKES, ES ([email protected]; [email protected]) Lucio Godoy was born in 1958 in Argentina. He has been living in Spain since 1992, working as an active film/tv composer, scoring and doing the music production for more than 60 feature films. A selection of his feature films would include: Tiempo Después (2018), The Mist and the Maiden (2017), The Fury of a Patient Man (2016), Bakery in Brooklyn (2016), Everybody has a Plan (2012), Blackthorn (2011), Triage (2009), The Education of Fairies (2006), Melissa P. (2005), or Don’t Move (2004) among others. Lucio has also worked as musical producer for other composer ́s feature films, such as “The Sea inside”, “The Others” (Alejandro Amenábar)”; “All about my mother”, “Live Flesh”, “The Flower of my Secret” (Alberto Iglesias), “My Life Without Me” (Alfonso de Vilallonga), and many more. Adrian Foulkes born in Madrid in 1986, is a musician, composer and producer. He composes for films, Tv Series, dance and theatre. Although he began with a classical approach to music, he likes to think that he explores the tensions between electronic music and acoustic instrumentation and the many ways of having an approach to it, always having an open mind for the experimentation. In 2015 he released his first album called “Drift” a solo piano instrumental project. Among his more famous works, in 2016 he composed the soundtrack of the film “Hurok” being his first film ever and directed by Isti Madarász. In 2017 he composed the soundtrack of the Spanish movie “La Niebla y La Doncella” directed by Andrés Koppel too, both films were done with the composer Lucio Godoy. He also used to work with the composer Federico Jusid, mainly being a music producer, sound designer and musician and in projects like “The Refugees” the first co-production between BBC and Atresmedia productions, making some additional music.

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