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- Elik Álvarez is a Venezuelan-born composer based in Los Angeles who has managed to capture audiences worldwide with his distinctive sounding compositions for over 80 films, television series, and documentaries. He is known for scoring many of Sir David Attenborough's groundbreaking mini-series, such as the Lumiere Award winner and BAFTA nominated 'Conquest Of The Skies 3D', 'IMAX Galapagos: Nature's Wonderland' and 'Kingdom Of Plants 3D' for which he won Best Documentary Score at the International Film Music Festival Provincia de Cordova. His most recent credits include Apple TV 'Super League: The War for Football', the EMMY nominated feature documentary 'To The Street' (HBO Max/WarnerMedia 150), the feature film 'The Exorcism of God' (Saban Films/Lionsgate) and the docu-series 'Preaching Evil: A Wife on The Run with Warren Jeffs (Peacock). His many episodic television credits include, the 2019 International EMMY Awards Nominee 'The Other Side of The Wall' (Telemundo/Peacock), Robert Redford's 'America. The Beautiful' (Travel Channel) and 'Jenny Rivera: Mariposa de Barrio' (Telemundo/Netflix) for which he received an ASCAP Screen Award. Elik is also well known as composer for many successful animated series such as 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' and 'Yugioh!'. His upcoming projects are a set of new collaborations with documentary director/producer Ron Davis: 'I am We', 'ParaGold' and 'Dawn: A Charleston Legend', all set to be released in 2023. Other notable credits include music for the Konami Video Game 'Contra: Rogue Corps', the feature documentary 'Harry & Snowman' and both installments of the Venezuelan box office sensation 'Papita, Mani, Tostón' for which he earned a HMMA nomination for Best Original Score - Independent Film (Foreign Language).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Elik Alvarez
- Won Gold Medal for Excellence in Original Music for a Feature Film for the film La Virgen Negra at the 2011 Park City Film Music Festival in Utah.
- Won a GoldSpirit award for Best Score for the 3D documentary Kingdom of Plants at the 2013 International Film Music Festival Provincia de Cordoba.
- Nominated for Best Original Score for a Documentary Feature for Kingdom of Plants 3D by the International Film Music Critics Association in 2013.
- He wrote the score to Papita, Maní, Tostón; the most watched film in the history of Venezuelan cinema.
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