Sundance Institute and Skywalker Sound Announce Independent Filmmakers and Film Composers for July Music and Sound Design Labs

Los Angeles, CA Sundance Institute and Skywalker Sound today announced the independent narrative and documentary directors and composers selected for the Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Labs at Skywalker Sound. This will be the third year the Music and Sound Design Labs take place at the Skywalker Ranch in northern California. The Labs are part of 24 residential labs the Institute hosts annually to discover and foster the talent of emerging independent artists in film, theatre, new media and episodic content.

The Music and Sound Design Labs provide a space for composers, directors and sound designers to collaborate on the process of designing a soundtrack for film. Fellows participate in workshops and creative exercises under the guidance of leading film composers and film music professionals acting as Creative Advisors.The Music and Sound Design Lab for narrative feature films (July 7-21) is a joint initiative of the Institute's Film Music Program and Feature Film Program, and the Music and Sound Design Lab for documentaries (July 22-30) is a joint initiative of the Film Music Program and Documentary Film Program.

Peter Golub, Director of the Sundance Institute Film Music Program, said, This year's fellows include an outstanding group of composers whose work will deepen and enrich the experience of the diverse personal stories being told by these fiction and documentary filmmakers. Skywalker Sound is the perfect space for composers, filmmakers and sound designers to come together to explore the magical integration of image, music and sound.

Josh Lowden, General Manager of Skywalker Sound said, Collaborating with the Institute to host these Labs at Skywalker allows us to deepen our commitment to independent filmmaking. Twenty-five years ago Skywalker was founded by a filmmaker for filmmakers, and among our core philosophies is the importance of early collaboration between directors, sound designers and composers in bringing a story and vision to life.

Creative Advisors this year include composers Jeff Beal, Todd Boekelheide, George S. Clinton, John Frizzell, Harry Gregson-Williams, Laura Karpman, and Anton Sanko; sound designers Chris Barnett, Pete Horner, Dennis Leonard, Tim Nielsen, Gary Rydstrom, Kent Sparling, and Randy Thom; BMI Vice President, Doreen Ringer Ross; re-recording mixers Erik Foreman, Zach Martin and Brandon Proctor; music supervisor Sue Jacobs; director Jon Else; and music agent Robert Messinger.

Artists and narrative projects selected for the 2015 Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Lab: Feature Film (July 7-21) are:

Filmmakers:

All filmmakers selected for this Lab have been supported by the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program. Two projects are in post-production and the others recently participated in the Institute's June Directors and Screenwriters Lab.

Yung Chang (writer/director) / Eggplant (China/Canada): A neo-noir love story set in China, Eggplant follows a mysterious woman who cons countryside bachelors for their money and a wedding photographer escaping a troubled life in Taiwan. When they meet in a collision of fate, the past quickly confronts the present in an explosion of events as these two Chinese millennials struggle to find a meaningful existence in a society fixated on money, materialism and duty.

Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (writer/director) / Mustang (France): Roman Coleman is halfway through an 11-year sentence for attempted murder when he is offered the chance to participate in a rehabilitation program that trains inmates to break captured wild mustangs. Based on a real-life program, Mustang is a portrait of one mans unique connection to these wild animals and his complex struggle to control his own ferocity.

Mark Kindred (writer/director) / Rogue (U.S.A.): An ex-cop gone rogue wages unconventional warfare on the institutional forces that wronged him. Inspired by true events.

Matthew Ross (writer/director) / Frank & Lola (U.S.A.): On Halloween night, Frank, a chef at a Las Vegas restaurant, falls in love with Lola, a mysterious girl whos new in town. Betrayal, then forgiveness, soon follows. But the damage has been done, as Franks obsession soon leads him to Paris, and revenge. POST-PRODUCTION

Brent Green (co-writer/director) / Over the Eaves (U.S.A.): In this stop-motion animated film, a young boy begins inventing strange, hand-made machines to ease his mothers hard labor and bring joy to her monotonous life, but his ambitions quickly grow. When his most daring invention backfires and changes life on Earth forever, his neighbors struggle to understand whether he has done them harm or shown them what they have been missing.

Marialy Rivas (co-writer/director) / La Princesita (Chile): The leader of religious cult has one single purpose and belief: a new order is necessary, and 12-year-old Tamara is the one responsible for procreating the leaders of the new world. Tamara shall earn her freedom in a way she never imagined. POST-PRODUCTION

Composers:

Fabrizio Mancinelli

Born in Italy and currently a Los Angeles resident, Fabrizio Mancinelli has studied composition, conducting and film scoring, the latter at USC as a Fulbright grantee. In 2012 he composed the music for the internationally distributed Disney documentary Growing Up With Nine Old Men by Theodore Thomas. He regularly collaborates with production companies and TV networks in Europe and the U.S. Future projects include the animated film Mushka by Andreas Deja (Aladdin, The Lion King).

Forrest Gray

Forrest Gray is an LA-based composer who received his B.F.A. in film scoring with a minor in conducting from Berklee College of Music in 2014, and a graduate certificate from USC's Scoring for Motion Picture and Television program in 2015. His debut as a composer was in 2008, when he was asked to provide additional music for Steven Soderbergh&#

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