Tag: Film Scoring

  • Prepping for NEPA Film Festival Studio Log | Ep 105 | Apr 01, 2025

    Prepping for NEPA Film Festival

    Studio Log | Ep 105 | Apr 01, 2025

    The 2025 NEPA Film Festival begins this Friday! There are THREE films showing that I scored. This festival has been growing and this year it feels like there’s some real momentum behind the buzz.

    Our local NPR/PBS station, WVIA, has been the biggest supporter of this festival. They put together this amazing sizzle reel:

    I’ll be performing my neoclassical music at the Opening Night Gala and I’m teaming up with a new cellist, Colleen Ruddy! Here’s a taste of what you can expect:

    I’m truly busting at the seams for this year’s film festival – not just because it’s a showcase of some of my work, but because it’s also a gathering of a community. Film requires an army of creative, ego-less people and this event will host a high concentration of them. In a world where allies are being betrayed and truth and law no longer matter and the internet is a dumpster and Hollywood is dying, I can’t imagine a better way to spend a weekend.

  • Three Films Showing at NEPA Film Festival A whole new love for film

    Three Films Showing at NEPA Film Festival

    A whole new love for film

    Me with director Tony Susi at the first screening of The Trunk, one of the three films I got to score that’s playing at the NEPA Film Festival in a couple weeks.

    Three years ago I started attending film festivals in my region. Not only was I looking for something to watch that wasn’t another superhero spinoff, I also wanted to start doing more film scoring work and thought that networking with local filmmakers would give me that opportunity. It sure did.

    My local festival – NEPA Film Festival – is taking place in just a couple weeks – April 4-6 – and I have THREE films showing that I got to score! More than that, I’ll have a featured place at the opening night gala where I and a new cellist I’m working with will be performing my original music, including the theme from one of the films I scored, The Trunk:

    If you’re local, come on out! Here’s the website with more information and links for tickets: https://nepafilmfestival.com/

    I have always loved film, but getting to be a part of creating films has given me a whole new love for it. There’s perhaps no other art form that involves as many people and disciplines as film (possibly musical theater), and as such, the making of any film, big or small, requires an egoless cooperation that naturally creates a kind of community around itself. So this year’s festival is a marker not only of work I’ve done over the last three years but of friends I’ve made and (hopefully lifelong) partnerships I’ve created. I can’t wait!