Maurice Seezer songwriter and film music composer Film-scores written or co- written by Maurice include ‘Angel Baby’ (1995), ‘The Boxer’ (1997), ‘Disco Pigs’ (2000), ‘In America’ (2003), ‘Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ (2006), ‘The Pier’ (2011) Since the early 90’s he has contributed songs to soundtracks for Jim Sheridan, Baz Luhrmann and Michael Rhymer . (‘In The Name Of The Father”, “The Boxer”, “Short Cuts”, ‘Mission Impossible’, “In America” ‘Romeo And Juliet’, ‘Batman Forever’, ‘Moulin Rouge’). He was a proud member of “The Mohawks”, Gavin Friday’s backing band in Neil Jordan’s “Breakfast On Pluto” where he made his onscreen speaking debut with the key line “Wumba Wumba Wumba”. Collaboration and production credits include work with Bono, Gavin Friday, Maria McKee, Andrea Corr, Camilla Griehsel, Sinead O’Connor, Interference (Fergus O’Farrell) and Colin Vearncombe (aka Black). Composition work for theatre include original scores for Corcadorca’s October 2012 production of “Romeo & Juliet” in Cork Opera House and Corcadorca / Cork Opera House October 2013 joint production of Patrick McCabe’s play “The Big Yum Yum”, both directed by Pat Kiernan. He is currently working as composer on Oscar winning director Mike Van Diem’s new feature “The Surprise”, scheduled for completion in late 2014. A founding committee member of the Fastnet Short Film Festival, Maurice was Chair and Artistic Director of the festival from June 2009 until September 2013. He has been nominated twice for a Golden Globe (1994, 2004), twice for an Ivor Novello Award (1995, 2004), once for a Broadcast Film Critic’s Association Award (2004). In 2003 he won the Phoenix Film Critic’s Society award for Best Original Song (“Time Enough For Tears” – In America) .