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WSA Film Music Days
De WSA Film Music Days bieden een blik achter de schermen van de filmmuziekwereld. De panelgesprekken, interviews, concerten en masterclasses zijn een geweldige manier om je favoriete componisten beter te leren kennen. The WSA Film Music Days offer a peek behind the scenes of the film music world. The panel talks, interviews, concerts and masterclasses explore how the film music industry operates and evolves. Whether you are a professional, a student, a movie buff, or you just have a great love for scores, let's celebrate and collaborate during the WSA Film Music Days.
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Eén talk One talk € 5 Dagpas Talks Day pass Talks € 10
De talks zijn gratis voor geaccrediteerden Free entrance to the talks for accredited people
Info & tickets: wsawards.com
Programma Programme
do/Thu 20.10 • Kinepolis & Muziekcentrum De Bijloke 10:30 • Buyouts and other unfair contractual practices: what prospects for the Belgian composer? 14:00 • Film Composer & Film Producer: Balancing a Budget 15:30 • Composer’s Talk: Mark Isham 20:00 • Korean Composers Concert
vr/Fri 21.10 • Kinepolis & MIRY Concertzaal 10:30 • Music in nature documentaries with Bruno Coulais, Nainita Desai and Dirk Brossé 13:00 • Creative Partnerships: Johnny Jewel, Nico Leunen & Fien Troch 15:00 • Creative Partnerships: David Lowery & Daniel Hart 19:30 • Album Release & Listening Session: Evgueni Galperine’s Theory of Becoming
za/Sat 22.10 • YALO & MuziekcentrumDe Bijloke 12:00 • WSA Meet & Greet 13:00 • Changing the Face of “The Composer”: Alliance for Women Film Composers 14:15 • WSA Nominees Round Table: Film & TV Composer of the Year 15:15 • WSA Nominees Round Table: Discovery of the Year 16:15 • WSA Nominees Round Table: Public Choice Award 20:00 • World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert
De panelleden bespreken buyouts, de bedreiging van buyouts voor componisten en hun toepassing in Europa. Dit panelgesprek wordt georganiseerd i.s.m. de European Composer & Songwriter Alliance. The panellists will discuss buyouts, their threat to composers and their presence in Europe. This panel talk is organised in collaboration with the European Composer Songwriter Alliance (ECSA).
Panellists
Marc du Moulin
ECSA's Secretary General. He previously worked for the European Film Agency Directors, the Motion Picture Association, the European Commission and for Eurocinema.
Hans Helewaut
Composer Hans Helewaut’s work includes the score for the animation film Cafard, which won a World Soundtrack Award. He takes an active role in defending the rights of composers as a board member of Sabam, de Muziekgilde and Belgium Screen Composers Guild.
Luc Gulinck
Luc Gulinck is a jurist specialising in entertainment law. Having gained experience working for the influential dance label R&S Records and for majors Sony Music Entertainment and EMI Music, he now operates as an independent consultant for composers, performers, producers and other actors in the music and audio-visual industry.
Anselm Kreuzer - moderator
Anselm Kreuzer is a composer of music for television, film, and other audiovisual media. He has written numerous title tunes for TV shows, score music for several TV series, and a huge oeuvre of production music. He is a board member of Composers Club Germany since 2014 and a Board Member of ECSA.
Film Composer & Film Producer: Balancing a Budget
Dit panelgesprek brengt de beroepen filmproducent en filmcomponist dichter bij elkaar. Aan de hand van persoonlijke ervaringen, case studies en te vermijden valkuilen bespreken producenten Peter Bouckaert (Eyeworks) en Annemie Degryse (Lunanime) hoe ze een filmscore budgetteren, terwijl componisten Michelino Bisceglia en Liesa Van der Aa hun licht laten schijnen over wat er komt kijken bij het componeren van een score en hoe dat budget nu precies wordt besteed. Deze talk wordt georganiseerd i.s.m. de Belgian Screen Composers Guild. This panel talk aims to bring the professions of film producer and film composer closer together. Through personal experiences, case studies and pitfalls to avoid, producers Peter Bouckaert (Eyeworks) and Annemie Degryse (Lunanime) discuss how they budget a film score, while composers Michelino Bisceglia and Liesa Van der Aa shed light on what goes into composing a score and how said budget is spent. This talk is organised in collaboration with the Belgian Screen Composers Guild.
Panellists
Peter Bouckaert
Peter Bouckaert is the managing and creative director of Eyeworks Film & TV Drama. He was deputy director of the Flanders International Film Festival for 10 years before joining Eyeworks, Belgium's leading film production company in 2000. Since then, Peter has produced an impressive number of films and quality drama series among which Ben X, Dossier K., Marina, The Treatment, Double Life, Cordon and many more.
Michelino Bisceglia
Composer and jazz pianist Michelino Bisceglia composed the score for Stijn Coninx’ Marina (2013) for which he won a WSA Public Choice Award. He also orchestrated and conducted the scores for Cafard and Mother’s Instinct, which also won World Soundtrack Awards. His recent
work includes the scores for the Netflix series Thieves of the Wood and the animation biopic Charlotte, which granted him another WSAnomination this year. balancing on narrative and surreal structures where content, image and music are put into one frame. She has collaborated with organisations such as deSingel, Toneelhuis, Kaaitheater, Handelsbeurs Concertzaal, M HKA, Concertgebouw Brugge, Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop Berlin and FC Bergman.
Annemie Degryse
Annemie Degryse has been working in animation as a distributor and producer since she graduated from KASK. She founded Lunanime in 2008 and co-owns the Lumière Group, which includes 5 city cinemas, theatrical distribution, production and a 2D animation studio. Annemie produced titles such as the series Ollie, and Bloomstreet 11, which won the Cristal Award for Best Animated Short in Annecy, and co-produced among others Josep, Funan and Coppelia.
Valerie Dobbelaere - moderator
Valerie Dobbelaere is the founder of Strike A Score, a screen composers agency that both represents Belgian screen composers and promotes screen composers on a European level. She previously coordinated the music projects and film (music) industry activities at Film Fest Gent for over 10 years. Valerie joined Post Bills, a Brussels based press and communication agency specialising in PR for film, TV & music projects for 5 years before creating her own agency.
Liesa Van der Aa
Liesa Van der Aa is a Belgian violinist, singer, composer and actor. Liesa’s work is always made and shown in a multidisciplinary context,
MARK ISHAM RUBEN DE GHESELLE
Mark Isham componeerde memorabele scores voor onder meer Judas and the Black Messiah, The Black Dahlia en Crash. Hij scoorde ook A River Runs Through It, dat zowel een Oscar als een Grammy-nominatie kreeg. Mark Isham heeft het in deze talk over zijn rijke carrière met moderator en collega-componist Ruben De Gheselle. American film composer and jazz artist Mark Isham's outstanding musical voice can be heard in the memorable scores for the numerous films on which he collaborated, such as Judas and the Black Messiah (Shaka King), The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma) and Crash (Paul Haggis). Mark Isham also scored A River Runs Through It (Robert Redford) which received an Oscar nomination for Best Music and a Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Composition for a Feature Film. Mark Isham will discuss his extensive career with moderator and fellow composer Ruben De Gheselle. do/Thu 20.10 • 15:30-17:00 • Kinepolis 8 in het Engels/in English
Ruben De Gheselle staat bekend om zijn intieme, hypnotiserende en soms duistere scores voor onder meer Clara Sola (Nathalie Álvarez Mesén), A Cops & Robbers Story en de reeks Lockdown. Hij won prestigieuze prijzen zoals de Georges Delerue Award op FFG2021, de Grand Prix voor beste muziek in Marseille en een Ensor in 2022. Ruben De Gheselle is known for his intimate, hypnotic and sometimes dark scores for films such as the Cannes-nominated Clara Sola (Nathalie Álvarez Mesén, 2021), A Cops & Robbers Story (Ilinca Calugareanu, 2020) which premiered at DOC NYC, or the Canneserieswinning Lockdown. Ruben also worked on several internationally acclaimed short films including The Passerby (2020) and Beast! (2016) by Pieter Coudyzer and Elena (Birute Sodeikate, 2021). He won various prestigious awards such as the Grand Prix for best music in Marseille and an Ensor in 2022. Last year, he won the Georges Delerue Award at Film Fest Gent for the music of Clara Sola.
Korean Composers
do/Thu 20.10 • 20:00 • Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Tickets: worldsoundtrackawards.com
Tijdens het unieke concert Korean Composers staat Koreaanse filmmuziek in de schijnwerpers. Brussels Philharmonic, onder leiding van Maestro Dirk Brossé, brengt muziek van Cho Young-wuk (Oldboy, The Handmaiden), de go-to componist van Park Chan-wook, en Lee Byeong-woo die met Bong Joon-ho werkte aan Mother en The Host. Beide componisten zullen op het concert aanwezig zijn. Ook de muziek van Jung Jae-il voor Parasite en Squid Game zal live worden uitgevoerd. The spotlight will be put on Korean film music in the unique concert Korean Composers. Brussels Philharmonic, conducted by Maestro Dirk Brossé, will perform music by Cho Young-wuk (Oldboy, The Handmaiden), the go-to composer of Park Chan-wook, and Lee Byeong-woo who worked with Bong Joon-ho on Mother and The Host. Both composers will be present at the concert. The music of Jung Jae-il for Parasite and Squid Game will be performed live as well.
Music in nature documentaries
Componisten Bruno Coulais, Dirk Brossé en Nainita Desai bespreken hun ervaringen met het scoren voor natuurdocumentaires. How does a composer (under)score nature? Composers Bruno Coulais, Dirk Brossé and Nainita Desai discuss their experiences scoring for nature documentaries.
Panellists
Dirk Brossé
Dirk Brossé, an internationally acclaimed conductor and composer, is currently Music Director of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and Music Director of Film Fest Gent. Dirk Brossé has guest-conducted many top orchestras all over the world and is also an award-winning composer, whose body of work includes scores for cinema, television and stage, such as the Emmy-nominated score for the BBC/HBO series Parade’s End, Daens, Tintin, Ben X, Pauline & Paulette and 14-18. He recently composed the music for the Belgian nature documentary Onze Natuur.
Bruno Coulais
Bruno Coulais' ambitious film music ranges from scores for French blockbusters like
Les rivières pourpres (2001), through epic documentaries like Le peuple migrateur (2001) to folkloric animated films like Wolfwalkers (2020). His big break came in 1996 thanks to his magnificent score for the nature documentary Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe. It earned Coulais his first César and the Georges Delerue Award at Film Fest Gent. He also wrote the scores for the stop-motion film Coraline and for the universally lauded The Secret of Kells (2009) and Song of the Sea (2014).
Nainita Desai
Emmy-nominated and Royal Television Society award winning composer Nainita Desai is also the winner of the World Soundtrack Awards Discovery of the Year 2021. Her recent projects include Oscar nominated, BAFTA and Cannes winning feature documentary For Sama, Sundance and BIFA winning feature The Reason I Jump and nature documentary Untamed Romania. Mark Kermode placed her score for The Reason I Jump in the Top 3 film scores of 2021 with Empire Magazine championing her as one of the '5 film composers to watch out for 2022'.
Robin Broos - moderator
Robin Broos has been sharing his knowledge of film music on radio since 2018, as presenter of the Klara programme The Original Soundtrack. For Brussels Philharmonic, he creates the podcast De Klankband, about film music and music in film. In 2021, his lecture A Sci-Fi Soundtrack on music in science fiction film was awarded the Audience Award at the Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival in Bruges.
Creative Partnerships
Met Creative Partnerships schijnt Film Fest Gent het voetlicht op twee uitzonderlijke samenwerkingen: enerzijds tussen regisseur David Lowery en componist Daniel Hart (p. 8), en anderzijds tussen componist Johnny Jewel, monteur Nico Leunen (ACE) en regisseur Fien Troch (p.6). Journalist Tim Greiving zal beide gesprekken modereren. Film Fest Gent shines the spotlight on two exceptional collaborations: on the one hand between director David Lowery and composer Daniel Hart (p. 8), and on the other hand between composer Johnny Jewel, editor Nico Leunen (ACE) and director Fien Troch (p. 6). Journalist Tim Greiving will moderate both conversations.
Johnny Jewel, Nico Leunen & Fien Troch
David Lowery & Daniel Hart
Tim Greiving - moderator
Tim Greiving is een cultuurjournalist die gespecialiseerd is in filmmuziek. Hij levert regelmatig bijdragen aan NPR, de Los Angeles Times en The Washington Post. Tim Greiving is an arts and entertainment journalist in Los Angeles who specialises in film music. He regularly contributes to NPR, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. His work has been published in The New York Times, Criterion, Variety, The Ringer, Los Angeles Magazine, and Vulture. He has written program notes for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Royal Albert Hall, and liner notes for more than one hundred soundtrack albums.
Album Release & Listening Session: Evgueni Galperine’s Theory of Becoming
Evgueni Galperine, die samen met zijn broer Sacha de scores van onder meer FFG Explore Award-winnaar Gagarine, Gouden Leeuw-winnaar L’événement en de HBOminiserie Scenes of a Marriage componeerde, presenteert zijn nieuwe album Theory of Becoming op Film Fest Gent. Daarbij vroeg Galperine aan vier filmmakers om beelden te maken bij zijn muziek, die exclusief getoond worden tijdens deze luistersessie. Galperine is aanwezig voor een inleiding en een Q&A. Evgueni Galperine, who, together with his brother Sacha, composed the scores for films such as FFG Explore Award-winner Gagarine, Golden Lion-winner The Happening and the HBO miniseries Scenes of a Marriage, presents his new album Theory of Becoming at Film Fest Gent. For this occasion, Galperine asked four filmmakers to make images to his music, which are exclusively shown during this listening session. Galperine is present for an introduction and a Q&A.
za/Sat 22.10 • 13:00-14:00 • YALO (Conference Room) in het Engels/in English
Vrouwelijke componisten hebben altijd al muziek geschreven, maar zijn in de muziekgeschiedenis over het hoofd gezien en onzichtbaar gehouden. De Alliance for Women Film Composers (AWFC) is opgericht vanuit de nood en het verlangen om de zichtbaarheid van vrouwelijke componisten te vergroten en nieuwe kansen te creëren. Women composers have always been writing and creating music, but they have historically been overlooked and kept invisible. The Alliance for Women Film Composers (AWFC) was founded out of a need and desire to raise visibility and create opportunities for female composers.
Panellists
Catherine Joy
With a passion for music and collaboration, Catherine Joy is a composer for film, media and live performance. Early in her career she won Best Documentary Score for Gold Balls. More recently she scored the criticallyacclaimed feature Potato Dreams of America. Along with composing, Catherine is the founder and CEO of Joy Music House, a full service score production company and the President for the Alliance for Women Film Composers.
Daniel Hart
Composer and performer Daniel Hart made his feature film debut in 2013 with the critically acclaimed Ain't Them Bodies Saints, which began his collaboration with filmmaker
David Lowery. Over the past decade, he has also scored multiple TV shows, from Fox's The Exorcist, to SMILF, to The Society. Hart has written music for This American Life, and composed the score for S Town. He is also an accomplished musician and played with bands such as St. Vincent, Broken Social Scene and Other Lives.
Nainita Desai
Emmy-nominated and Royal Television Society award winning composer Nainita Desai is also the winner of the World Soundtrack Awards Discovery of the Year 2021. Her recent projects include Oscar nominated, BAFTA and Cannes winning feature documentary For Sama, Sundance and BIFA winning feature The Reason I Jump. Mark Kermode placed her score for The Reason I Jump in the Top 3 film scores of 2021 with Empire Magazine championing her as one of the '5 film composers to watch out for 2022'.
Thomas Mikusz - moderator
In 2011 Thomas Mikusz co-founded White Bear PR, a public relations company, specialising in composers, music supervisors, international film & music festivals, and event management & production. He spearheaded successful award campaigns for artists such as Hildur Gudnadóttir (Joker, Chernobyl), Germaine Franco (Encanto) and Carlos Rafael Rivera (The Queen's Gambit). He serves on the leadership of The Alliance for Women Film Composers, amplifying and supporting the work of women composers.
WSA Nominees Round Tables
Film & TV Composer of the Year
za/Sat 22.10 • 14:15 • YALO (Conference Room)
De genomineerden voor Film Composer of the Year en TV Composer of the Year zitten samen voor een gesprek gemodereerd door Mark Salisbury (Screen International). The World Soundtrack Award nominees for Film Composer of the Year and TV Composer of the Year sit down together for a conversation moderated by Mark Salisbury (Screen International).
Discovery of the Year
za/Sat 22.10 • 15:15 • YALO (Conference Room)
De genomineerden voor Discovery of the Year zitten samen voor een gesprek gemodereerd door Mark Salisbury (Screen International). The World Soundtrack Award nominees for Discovery of the Year sit down together for a conversation moderated by Mark Salisbury (Screen International).
Public Choice Award
za/Sat 22.10 • 16:15 •YALO (Conference Room)
De genomineerden voor de Public Choice Award zitten samen voor een gesprek gemodereerd door Thomas Mikusz. The World Soundtrack Award nominees for the Public Choice Award sit down together for a conversation moderated by Thomas Mikusz.
Mark Salisbury - moderator
Mark Salisbury is contributing editor van Screen International en redacteur van het Screen-supplement World of Locations. Hij is ook een New York Times-bestsellerauteur en scenarioschrijver. Hij schreef onder meer Burton On Burton, The Insider's Guide to Inside No.9 en Being Bond: A Daniel Craig Retrospective. Mark Salisbury is a contributing editor of Screen International and editor of its World of Locations supplement. A former editor of Empire, he is also a New York Times best-selling author and screenwriter. His books include Burton On Burton, The Insider’s Guide to Inside No.9 and Being Bond: A Daniel Craig Retrospective.
WSA Meet & Greet
za/Sat 22.10 • 12:00 • YALO (Library Room) • gratis/free reservation (necessary): wsawards.com
Tijdens de WSA Meet & Greet zijn de WSA-genomineerden en special guests aanwezig om hun fans te ontmoeten. During the WSA Meet & Greet, the WSA nominees and special guests are present to meet their fans.
World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert
za/Sat 22.10 • 20:00 • Muziekcentrum De Bijloke
Film Fest Gent brengt de crème de la crème van de internationale filmmuziekscene opnieuw samen in Gent voor de 22ste World Soundtrack Awards. Brussels Philharmonic, onder leiding van Maestro Dirk Brossé, speelt tijdens de uitreiking van de filmmuziekprijzen een selectie uit de oeuvres van Mark Isham, Bruno Coulais (winnaar van de Lifetime Achievement Award) en van Nainita Desai (winnaar van de Discovery of the Year Award 2021). Film Fest Gent brings the cream of the international film music crop together in Gent again for the 22nd World Soundtrack Awards. Brussels Philharmonic, conducted by maestro Dirk Brossé, will play a selection of works by Mark Isham, Bruno Coulais (winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award) and Nainita Desai (winner of the Discovery of the Year Award 2021) during the presentation of the film music awards.
Info & tickets: worldsoundtrackawards.com
