LAFS & AIF Present: Music in Film -From Composition to Supervision

AUSTRALIANS IN FILM

 in association with

THE LOS ANGELES FILM SCHOOL and APRA AMCOS

present

Music in Film:

From Composition to Supervision

A panel of experts discuss their experiences in creating and using music in film and television.

December 7, 2016 @ 7PM

 LA Film School Main Theatre

6363 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Registration Essential

PANELISTS:

Michael Yezerski

Michael Yezerski’s recent film scores include Sean Byrne’s horror epic, The Devil’s Candy, Peer Pedersen’s We Don’t Belong Here, and Michael Ware’s HBO documentary Only The Dead See The End of War. Michael has also scored A Place To Call Home, screening in over one hundred and fifty countries, the multi-award winning mini-series Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door, and the true crime thriller Catching Milat, which was the highest rated drama series of 2015 in Australia. Michael just completed scores for Hyde and Seek and The Secret Daughter, currently screening in Australia. Other film scores have included The Black Balloon, The Waiting City, The Little Death and The Lost Thing. He has been nominated four times for the AACTA Awards for Best Original Score.

Allyson Newman

Allyson Newman’s first feature film she scored Watermark was screened at the Cannes Film Festival.  She scored the feature film This Thing With Sarah, as well as a dramatic thriller Private Life, and the multi-award winning documentary Limited Partnership that screened across the U.S. and ABC-TV in Australia in 2015. Other film work includes the comedy feature Spare Change, Filthy Preppy Teens (with writing partner Matt Novack), as well as the two-time Emmy Winning TV series Children’s Hospital and the Emmy nominated media series Her Story.

Alexandra Patsavas

Three time Grammy®Award nominee Alexandra Patsavas founded Chop Shop Music Supervision in 1998 and quickly earned a reputation for raising the bar in the quality of music selected for television series and feature films, including:  “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal,” “The O.C.,” “Gossip Girl,” “11/22/63,” “Mad Men,” “Without A Trace,” “Chuck,” “Rescue Me,” and The Twilight Saga, Warm Bodies, A Better Life, The Perks of Being A Wallflower and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Alex has been profiled in Wired, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Billboard, NPR, and MTV and is also the Chair of the Board of Directors for MusiCares.

Mark Smythe

One time chorister/ex-antipodean rocker Mark Smythe is a two time Hollywood Music in Media Awards nominee and winner of two Australian Screen Industry Network awards. He worked with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra for 2015’s epic Flying South and has scored films starring Daryl Hannah (The Things She Did) and Tara Reid (Charlie’s Farm). Mark is actively involved with the Society of Composers & Lyricists, serving as Associate Administrator since January 2016.

Joe Twist

Born in Australia and now living in the United States, composer/arranger Joe Twist straddles both film music and concert music arenas, while crossing genres ranging from ancient vocal music, to contemporary orchestral music, jazz, and cabaret. Credits include original music, arrangements and orchestrations for The Wiggles, (The Wiggles Meet The Orchestra), New York Music Theatre Festival (Clinton: The Musical), the feature film The Brooklyn Banker and Twist’s own album Dancing With Somebody.

MODERATED BY:

Ashley Irwin

Emmy® award-winner, Ashley Irwin has scored over 30 feature films, 300 hours of television and over 3,000 commercials. In 1992 he received his first Emmy® for his work on the 64th Academy Awards. In 1998 he was awarded Best Feature Film Score by the Australian Guild of Screen Composers for his score to the restored silent classic The White Hell of Piz Palü. Well-known for his collaborations with Clint Eastwood (Hereafter, J. Edgar, Jersey Boys) and Bill Conti (Rocky V, Rocky Balboa, The Thomas Crown Affair), Ashley has arranged and composed music for 18 Academy Awards shows several Emmys and Grammys, as well a slew of other TV variety shows. He is an official APRA Ambassador, was Music Director for APRA’s Screen Music Awards between 2013-2016 and has been president of the Society of Composers & Lyricists (US) for the past 3 years.

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NOTE: All seating is first come first serve. 

A ticket does not guarantee a seat.

You must be a student or staff to attend. If you are not a student please contact an admissions representative. All students and staff must have your school-issued ID visible and with you at all times.  

Tickets reserved with duplicate emails and/or duplicate names will be deleted.

We take a larger number of RSVPs than seats available to compensate for the no-show percentage so all seating is first come first serve. If tickets are sold out you are welcome to show up and you will be seated if room becomes available. LA Film School students / staff / faculty / alumni, please line up inside the theatre lobby. Use of cell phones or computers during the screening is strictly prohibited and you will be asked to leave.

If you feel you are unable to stand in line for a long period of time, we kindly request that you take a seat on the benches in the B1 theatre lobby and have your guest stand in line to secure a spot. Then when guest/s arrive to the point where they can enter and check in, you will walk in with your guest. Unfortunately, no one will be allowed in before the doors officially open, since we have to give the production team time to set up and test the equipment without an audience.