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Film: Shackled title sequence for crowdfunding drive

theprawn — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:26:50 +0000

Dec 6, 2011:

Off the back of 15 international festival screenings of her last film Habibti, director Nour Wazzi is now crowdfunding her next short, Shackled.

A psychological thriller, it’s co-produced by Shirine Best and Ellie Emptage through Panacea Productions and Traveller Films. They sent us a beautiful hand-drawn title sequence and an irresistible brief – sinister 1950s circus music.

Here’s the result – a score for two music boxes, soprano voice, violin, accordion, calliope, tuba and orchestral percussion:

And here’s the music:

Film: Shackled – Titles (Panacea Productions/Traveller Films) by A.K. Benedict/T. Taylor

Please visit the crowdfunding page for Shackled now! For a few dollars you can get an on-screen ‘Special Thanks’; for a few more you can get even better perks…

Film: Habibti gets special mentions in Cyprus and Montréal

theprawn — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:54:01 +0000

Oct 20, 2011:

Habibti has won the ‘Special Mention for a Leading Female Role’ award in Cyprus and got this special jury mention at the Montréal International Black Film Festival too:

“It’s impossible not to mention this film in which family, religion and opening oneself up to others are really put to the test through images that are as powerful as they are piercingly truthful. A powerhouse of a film.”

Huzza!

Plus it has added more screenings to the list – here’s an updated one:

Here’s our soundtrack:

Alexandra Benedict & Tris Taylor: Habibti OST

Alexandra Benedict & Tris Taylor: Habibti OST by A.K. Benedict/T. Taylor

Film: Habibti festival screenings worldwide

theprawn — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:23:41 +0000

Sep 21, 2011:

Habibti has been selected for more film festivals since its world premiere at DIFF in December.

Its European premiere was in Paris in April, as an official selection of the 6th ÉCU European Indie-Film Festival.

Plus it’s been selected for:

the Arab Film Festival Australia, July 2011
the 32nd Durban International Film Festival, July 2011
the 24th Helsinki International Film Festival, September 2011
the 11th Beirut International Film Festival, October 2011 (official competition)
the Gold Lion Film Festival, October 2011 (official selection)

News soon from Montréal, Cyprus and Valladolid too.

Here’s our soundtrack:

Alexandra Benedict & Tris Taylor: Habibti OST

Alexandra Benedict & Tris Taylor: Habibti OST by A.K. Benedict/T. Taylor

Stuff: festival screenings for the Prawn’s solo music

theprawn — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:26:22 +0000

September 15, 2011:

The Prawn has an indie pop album coming out, as per our not-quite-so-recent newsletter; though, confusingly, it is not under his real name (which is obviously ~~The Prawn~~ Tris Taylor) but an alias (Benbo).

To further confuse matters, his track ‘I Don’t Have A Lot To Say’ isn’t even on the album, but nevertheless a chap called Tony Johnson has made a brilliant video for it and the point of telling you all this is that he just won Best Music Video at the Walthamstow International Film Festival for it.

Here is the video:

And here is an embarrassing photo of the Prawn gatecrashing Tony’s limelight. Tony has also already got it selected for the 10th Gadabout Film Festival in Bloomington, Indiana this October, plus it was just featured on Directors Notes.

Mogul & the Prawn met Tony on the Digital Horizons training programme in 2007/08, which was bloody great. It was for small creative companies with high growth potential and was put together by Gina Fegan, who used to be CEO of Screen South and now runs the D-Media Network.

HERE ENDETH THE RANDOM EXTRA INFORMATION. Should you wish to be exposed to more Benbo things, please visit World of Benbo.

Film: Makers feature doc to premiere at Soho Shorts

theprawn — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:51:41 +0000

28 July, 2011:

Makers, Amadin Ryan’s feature documentary about the UK indie film industry, premieres today at special screenings in the Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival.

One of our tracks has become the main theme, and two more are also featured:

Film: Makers – Jenny’s Exit
Film: Makers – Don’t Investigate
Film: Makers – Odd Ball

Mega thanks to Amadin, Shibe Alawiye and Julian Gaskell for wanting them in. Here is a photo of them with Joce Capper, MD of Rushes:

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Check out the shades!

Film: He Loves Me to screen at ICA

theprawn — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:29:59 +0000

July 21, 2011:

Oliver Crowther’s film ‘He Loves Me’ is premiering at the ICA on July 25th as part of the Straight 8 showings at the Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival.

We did the sound design and final mix.

Also, the Mogul has an on-screen role as Woman In Yellow Coat. Woo!

Film: Habibti in official competition at DIFF

theprawn — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:51:06 +0000

Dec 11, 2010:

Following a cast & crew screening at BAFTA (woo!), Nour Wazzi’s short film Habibti (blurb here) is getting its world premiere in the Muhr Arab Shorts competition at this month’s 7th Dubai International Film Festival.

Fingers crossed for Nour, producer Campbell Beaton, writer Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan and all cast and crew!

We composed the soundtrack for Middle Eastern, African and Western instruments. Here’s the trailer:

And here’s the full original soundtrack:

Alexandra Benedict & Tris Taylor: Habibti OST

Alexandra Benedict & Tris Taylor: Habibti OST by A.K. Benedict/T. Taylor

Head on over to the Facebook page for Habibti to track its progress.

Or click here to listen to more of our film work.

Film: GirlLikeMe’s phenomenal festival run continues

theprawn — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:55:09 +0000

Nov 2, 2010:

Rowland Jobson’s GirlLikeMe, for which we provided additional music, has won Best Short Film at the 40th Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival in Ukraine.

It’s had a phenomenal festival record – premiering at Venice, winning at Branchage, official selections at Slamdance, Seminci (Valladolid), Rhode Island and showings at many others.

Congratulations to Rowland, Zoe Webster (producer), Peter Devonald (writer) and all cast and crew.

For a full list of festival appearances head over to the website of production company Seefood.

Even more importantly, do consider clicking here to listen to our film music showreel.

Film: Habibti score, starring Hiam Abbass & Jimmy Akingbola

theprawn — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:43:09 +0000

Jun 19, 2010:

We’ve composed an original soundtrack for Nour Wazzi’s UK Film Council-backed short film Habibti, which stars Hiam Abbass (The Visitor, I Am Slave), Yasmine Al Massri (Caramel, Miral) and Jimmy Akingbola (Rev., Holby City).

Working closely with Nour, we pared the sonic palette down to a spare 5-piece ensemble, fusing Middle Eastern and Western elements to support the unfolding narrative and brilliant performances.

Here’s the full original soundtrack, plus a cheeky bonus unused cue! ’Mama’ is a key cue, so check that first if you’re in a hurry…

Alexandra Benedict & Tris Taylor: Habibti OST
Alexandra Benedict & Tris Taylor: Habibti OST by A.K. Benedict/T. Taylor

Undoubtedly the only sensible thing to do now you have listened to the above is to move on to our full film soundtrack reel.

Film: Sleeping Lions to premiere at Rushes Soho Shorts Festival

theprawn — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:55:13 +0000

Jun 9, 2010:

Oliver Crowther’s Sleeping Lions short film has been selected by Straight 8 to premiere at the upcoming Rushes Soho Shorts Festival.

Congratulations Olly!

We composed the music and produced the sound design.

Update: the premiere is at the Curzon Renoir on Tuesday 27 July – details here.

Here’s the music:

Alexandra Benedict & Tris Taylor: Sleeping Lions – original soundtrack
Sleeping Lions – original soundtrack by A.K. Benedict/T. Taylor

Click here to listen to more music we’ve written for film.