Scoring Original Stories - Music for Documentary Masterclass
Screen Composers Guild and Screen Directors Guild present:
Scoring Original Stories – Music for Documentary.
Masterclass with multi award winning composers
Miriam Cutler And Nainita Desai
Venue: IMRO, Copyright Hse, Pembroke Row, Baggot St Lwr, Dublin 2
Date: Tuesday May 30th
Time: 1.30pm – 4.30pm
To register for tickets please email info@screencomposersguild.ie
(mention if you are composer or filmmaker so we can allocate places, places are first come, first serve for both cohorts)
Miriam Cutler:
Three time Emmy-nominated Composer, Miriam Cutler has an extensive background in scoring for independent film & TV projects, as well as two circuses. Her passion for documentaries has led to a focus in non-fiction award-winning and festival favourites. She wrote the scores for RBG (CNN) and Dark Money (PBS) which both premiered at Sundance 2017 and Love, Gilda (CNN) which premiered at Tribeca 2018. All three films had theatrical releases with RBG being one of the highest earning documentaries ever. RBG was nominated for an Oscar and four 2019 Primetime Emmys (1 for score), winning 1 Emmy. Love, Gilda was nominated for two Primetime Emmys (one for score) . Other highlights include BAFTA nominated Lost In La Mancha, Emmy winners One Last Hug, Vito, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Desert of Forbidden Art (score also nominated); Oscar-nominated shorts Poster Girl and Kings Point; Emmy nominated Ethel, Thin, and Pandemic: Facing Aids. Sundance Special Doc Jury Prize winners American Promise and License To Kill.
Nainita Desai:
Emmy and Royal Television Society award winning composer Nainita Desai won the World Soundtrack Awards Discovery of the Year 2021. As well as being a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit, double BIFA, Cinema Eye Honours, Ivor Novello nominee, Nainita won the Women In Film & TV Award for Creative Technology 2022. Amongst various BAFTA, Oscar and Emmy acclaimed productions, Nainita’s recent projects include the Netflix hit documentary 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible.
Desai’s other credits include Oscar 2020 nominated and BAFTA & Cannes winning feature doc For Sama, and Sundance winning The Reason I Jump, an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity. Recent projects include BBC1 action thriller series Crossfire, Bafta nominated American Murder, ITV crime drama series The Tower (Mammoth Screen, Gemma Whelan), SKY drama series Funny Woman (Gemma Arterton), land mark natural history series Predators for Sky/Netflix and Interactive film / video games Telling Lies, (Annapurna Interactive) and Call of Duty (Activision).
Upcoming projects include John Battsek’s upcoming UK/Irish feature The Deepest Breath (A24, Netflix), a major fantasy drama series for Disney+, landmark series for Apple TV+, James Cameron, Nat Geo and a video game for EA Originals.
Film4 labelled her as one of the top 5 ‘composers of 2020 who should be on your radar’ and Mark Kermode, the UK's leading film critic placed her score for The Reason I Jump in the Top 3 film scores of 2021 while Empire Magazine championed her as one of the '5 film composers to watch out for 2022'.