THE ONE: STARTS MARCH 12 ON NETFLIX WITH A COMPELLING SCORE BY DAVID ROWNTREE & IAN ARBER.
The One, Starts March 12 on Netflix with a compelling score by David Rowntree & Ian Arber. Created by Howard Overman and based on John Marrs best selling novel about love and lies which spiral out of control when a DNA researcher helps discover a way to find the perfect partner and creates a bold […]
KERMODE & MAYO LIST THE JIM MARSHALL MOVIE IN TOP 5 WEEK 6
His latest feature documentary Show Me The Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall, celebrates the greatest and most gifted photographer who created iconic images of 60’s rock ‘n’ roll stars, jazz greats, and civil rights leaders. It opened in the UK January 31 after a premiere at The Curzon Bloomsbury. Jim Marshall had the power […]
NOVELIST PAUL MURDOCH ADAPTING HIS HIT NOVEL ‘SUNNY’ FOR TV
Paul’s 2018 novel ‘Sunny’ about sectarianism and racism in Scottish schools has been hailed as a major weapon in the fight to eradicate these dangerous social issues and he’s now adapting it into a 6-part tv series. To date he’s published 7 novels including 3 in ‘The Peck Chronicles’ fantasy series. He’s done workshops and […]
KEITH ENGLISH’S FILM THE MORE YOU IGNORE ME TO BE PART OF AUSTRALIA’S BRITISH FILM FESTIVAL 2020
Keith English’s feature, The More You Ignore Me, will be screened as part of Australia’s November British Film Festival following a successful run in New Zealand. It is currently streaming in the US after winning Best Comedy at the UK’s National Film Awards. Adapted by Jo Brand, from her own novel it tells the poignant […]
DALAI LAMA FEATURE DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR JOINS SMA
Producer, writer and director Jean-Paul Mertinez runs Illumina Studios & Media, his Soho production company. He is currently producing a number of major feature documentaries, the first of which is An Officer & His Holiness: The Dalai Lama’s Secret Escape into Exile, which will have a major event premiere in India early in 2019. The film […]
CHRIS ROWE’S BRILLIANT SCORE FOR SPITFIRE FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Composer Chris Rowe getting rave reviews for his score for the 90 mins feature documentary Spitfire now on general release after star studded red carpet premiere at the Curzon Mayfair on July 7 attended by top brass from the RAF, some of the surviving pilots from The Battle of Britain Squadrons and celebs, in celebration […]
CRIME WRITER ROGER A. PRICE TO SMA
Crime novelist and screenwriter Roger A. Price after a 30-year career in the Lancashire Police Force, the Regional Crime Squad and the National Crime Squad is now an established crime writer with four successful novels to his credit and a fifth due out in 2018. Now concentrating on an original returning 6-part tv drama series, […]
ALEXANDER BALANESCU SCORES GLOBE THEATRE’S HIT PLAY
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s production of The Secret Theatre, directed by Matthew Dunster, is getting great reviews at London’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, as is Alexander Balanescu’s brilliant score for Anders Lustgarten’s Elizabethan espionage thriller. The music has been described as “Hitchcockesque”.
Many congratulations to our Swedish composer Uno Helmersson
Many congratulations to our Swedish composer Uno Helmersson for ace review for his score for The Lion Woman He’s currently working on the next series of the brilliant The Bridge http://smatalent.com/helmersson-uno/
Ian Arber Scores BBC2 Comedy
Ian Arber after I am Bolt and Mo Farah: No Easy Mile scored Lucky Giants 6-part comedy Quacks currently airing on BBC2 to rave reviews.
ALEXANDER BALANESCU WINS BEST SOUNDTRACK AWARD
After his recent FIPA D’OR Nomination for his music for Wall To Wall’s The Scandalous Lady W, Alexander Balanescu has won Romania’s GOPO award for Best Original Soundtrack for his score for The Magic Mountain directed by Anca Damian for Aparte Film. Read more about Alex
TIGER RAID with music by DEAN VALENTINE at Edinburgh Film & TV Festival June 25
Story Film’s Tiger Raid, with a terrific action score by Dean Valentine, had its world premiere at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival in April and will be screened at the Edinburgh Film & TV Festival in June. Meanwhile Violet, also with Dean’s music, showing at Tribeca too and won the First Prize Festival Award at Chicago’s […]