Indigenous composers and musicians account for less than one 1 per cent of screen composers nationally.
As such, over the past year the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (Agsc) and the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music Office (Natismo) have been working together to try to create pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders composers to enter the industry.
That has lead to the 2021 Natsimo Screen Composer Intensive, a paid, four-week initiative, supported by Apra Amcos and Create Nsw.
The selected participant will work across Sonar Music, Church Street Studios and Jigsaw Music, and with the Australian Film Television and Radio School (Aftrs), to expand on their songwriting and composing skills and experience.
They’ll be exposed to the key practices of screen composing and be immersed in production settings, including spotting sessions, approval sessions, preparations for recording/mixing, chart preparation, orchestration, music rough approval sessions, attending recording sessions, music mixes and film mixes.
As such, over the past year the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (Agsc) and the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music Office (Natismo) have been working together to try to create pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders composers to enter the industry.
That has lead to the 2021 Natsimo Screen Composer Intensive, a paid, four-week initiative, supported by Apra Amcos and Create Nsw.
The selected participant will work across Sonar Music, Church Street Studios and Jigsaw Music, and with the Australian Film Television and Radio School (Aftrs), to expand on their songwriting and composing skills and experience.
They’ll be exposed to the key practices of screen composing and be immersed in production settings, including spotting sessions, approval sessions, preparations for recording/mixing, chart preparation, orchestration, music rough approval sessions, attending recording sessions, music mixes and film mixes.
- 7/5/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Matteo Zingales and Antony Partos.
The musical partnership between Matteo Zingales and Antony Partos has served them well, earning them four combined nominations for year’s Screen Music Awards, to be staged jointly by Apra Amcos and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (Agsc) in November.
Together Zingales and Partos are nominated for Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie for Wake in Fright and Mystery Road, and both Feature Film Score of the Year and Best Soundtrack Album for HBO film Fahrenheit 451.
Separately, Zingales received an additional two nominations for Best Television Theme and Best Music for a Television Series for his work Harrow, and Partos is also nominated for Best Music for a Documentary for The Director and The Jedi.
Competing against Zingales and Partos for Best Feature Film Score of the Year are Caitlin Yeo for The Butterfly Tree, Christopher Gordon for Ladies in Black, and Richard Pleasance for Brothers’ Nest.
The musical partnership between Matteo Zingales and Antony Partos has served them well, earning them four combined nominations for year’s Screen Music Awards, to be staged jointly by Apra Amcos and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (Agsc) in November.
Together Zingales and Partos are nominated for Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie for Wake in Fright and Mystery Road, and both Feature Film Score of the Year and Best Soundtrack Album for HBO film Fahrenheit 451.
Separately, Zingales received an additional two nominations for Best Television Theme and Best Music for a Television Series for his work Harrow, and Partos is also nominated for Best Music for a Documentary for The Director and The Jedi.
Competing against Zingales and Partos for Best Feature Film Score of the Year are Caitlin Yeo for The Butterfly Tree, Christopher Gordon for Ladies in Black, and Richard Pleasance for Brothers’ Nest.
- 10/17/2018
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
The 'Backtrack' sound team..
Backtrack has swept the Australian Screen Sound Guild (Assg) awards, picking up the Soundtrack of the Year, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Design and the Members. Choice Award.
The film, starring Adrien Brody and Sam Neill, won all feature categories except Best Film Sound Recording, picked up by Goldstone.s Nick Emond and Mike Bakaloff.
The Awards, held on Sunday at the Establishment Hotel Sydney, also saw Monsieur Mayonnaise.s sound team win Best Sound for a Documentary, while Lorne picked up Best Sound for a Short Fiction Film.
In television, Molly won Best Sound for a drama over 30 minutes, while kids program Beat Bugs snatched Best Sound for a drama under 30 minutes.
Academy Award nominated sound engineer Gethin Creagh (Lord of the Rings:Fellowship of the Rings) was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Backtrack.s supervising sound editor, Will Ward, told If the...
Backtrack has swept the Australian Screen Sound Guild (Assg) awards, picking up the Soundtrack of the Year, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Design and the Members. Choice Award.
The film, starring Adrien Brody and Sam Neill, won all feature categories except Best Film Sound Recording, picked up by Goldstone.s Nick Emond and Mike Bakaloff.
The Awards, held on Sunday at the Establishment Hotel Sydney, also saw Monsieur Mayonnaise.s sound team win Best Sound for a Documentary, while Lorne picked up Best Sound for a Short Fiction Film.
In television, Molly won Best Sound for a drama over 30 minutes, while kids program Beat Bugs snatched Best Sound for a drama under 30 minutes.
Academy Award nominated sound engineer Gethin Creagh (Lord of the Rings:Fellowship of the Rings) was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Backtrack.s supervising sound editor, Will Ward, told If the...
- 11/24/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
The 'Backtrack' sound team..
Backtrack has swept the Australian Screen Sound Guild (Assg) awards, picking up the Soundtrack of the Year, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Design and the Members. Choice Award.
The film, starring Adrien Brody and Sam Neill, won all feature categories except Best Film Sound Recording, picked up by Goldstone.s Nick Emond and Mike Bakaloff.
The Awards, held on Sunday at the Establishment Hotel Sydney, also saw Monsieur Mayonnaise.s sound team win Best Sound for a Documentary, while Lorne picked up Best Sound for a Short Fiction Film.
In television, Molly won Best Sound for a drama over 30 minutes, while kids program Beat Bugs snatched Best Sound for a drama under 30 minutes.
Academy Award nominated sound engineer Gethin Creagh (Lord of the Rings:Fellowship of the Rings) was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Backtrack.s supervising sound editor, Will Ward, told If the...
Backtrack has swept the Australian Screen Sound Guild (Assg) awards, picking up the Soundtrack of the Year, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Design and the Members. Choice Award.
The film, starring Adrien Brody and Sam Neill, won all feature categories except Best Film Sound Recording, picked up by Goldstone.s Nick Emond and Mike Bakaloff.
The Awards, held on Sunday at the Establishment Hotel Sydney, also saw Monsieur Mayonnaise.s sound team win Best Sound for a Documentary, while Lorne picked up Best Sound for a Short Fiction Film.
In television, Molly won Best Sound for a drama over 30 minutes, while kids program Beat Bugs snatched Best Sound for a drama under 30 minutes.
Academy Award nominated sound engineer Gethin Creagh (Lord of the Rings:Fellowship of the Rings) was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Backtrack.s supervising sound editor, Will Ward, told If the...
- 11/24/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
The 'Backtrack' sound team..
Backtrack has swept the Australian Screen Sound Guild (Assg) awards, picking up the Soundtrack of the Year, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Design and the Members. Choice Award.
The film, starring Adrien Brody and Sam Neill, won all feature categories except Best Film Sound Recording, picked up by Goldstone.s Nick Emond and Mike Bakaloff.
The Awards, held on Sunday at the Establishment Hotel Sydney, also saw Monsieur Mayonnaise.s sound team win Best Sound for a Documentary, while Lorne picked up Best Sound for a Short Fiction Film.
In television, Molly won Best Sound for a drama over 30 minutes, while kids program Beat Bugs snatched Best Sound for a drama under 30 minutes.
Academy Award nominated sound engineer Gethin Creagh (Lord of the Rings:Fellowship of the Rings) was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Backtrack.s supervising sound editor, Will Ward, told If the...
Backtrack has swept the Australian Screen Sound Guild (Assg) awards, picking up the Soundtrack of the Year, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Design and the Members. Choice Award.
The film, starring Adrien Brody and Sam Neill, won all feature categories except Best Film Sound Recording, picked up by Goldstone.s Nick Emond and Mike Bakaloff.
The Awards, held on Sunday at the Establishment Hotel Sydney, also saw Monsieur Mayonnaise.s sound team win Best Sound for a Documentary, while Lorne picked up Best Sound for a Short Fiction Film.
In television, Molly won Best Sound for a drama over 30 minutes, while kids program Beat Bugs snatched Best Sound for a drama under 30 minutes.
Academy Award nominated sound engineer Gethin Creagh (Lord of the Rings:Fellowship of the Rings) was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Backtrack.s supervising sound editor, Will Ward, told If the...
- 11/24/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
“Nothing haunts like the past.” It’s a catchy tag line that attempts to sum up writer and director Michael Petroni’s new film Backtrack, but there more to this mystery/thriller than can be summed up in a single breath. What begins as a moody drama about a troubled psychotherapist quickly reveals itself as a deeper tale of supernatural intervention into the darker underbelly of human nature.
Peter Bower, played with wrenching emotional finesse by Adrien Brody, is struggling with the loss of his daughter while barely holding together his practice and his marriage. Bower blames himself for his daughter’s death, while not entirely clear on what happened exactly. When not in sessions with his own patients, Bower seeks counsel from fellow psychotherapist Duncan Stewart, played by Sam Neill, which only leads Bower further down the twisted rabbit hole that will be come a truly unnerving revelation.
Backtrack...
Peter Bower, played with wrenching emotional finesse by Adrien Brody, is struggling with the loss of his daughter while barely holding together his practice and his marriage. Bower blames himself for his daughter’s death, while not entirely clear on what happened exactly. When not in sessions with his own patients, Bower seeks counsel from fellow psychotherapist Duncan Stewart, played by Sam Neill, which only leads Bower further down the twisted rabbit hole that will be come a truly unnerving revelation.
Backtrack...
- 3/4/2016
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Australian Screen Sound Guild, supported by Sennheiser, yesterday announced the winners of the 2013 Assg Awards at a lunchtime ceremony held at the Establishment Ballroom in Sydney..
Hosted by the hilarious Rhys Muldoon, it is the second consecutive year the Assg have held the ceremony on a Sunday, which has proved a popular choice with attendees..
Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby was the favourite on the day, taking home four gongs in total, including the Assg Member's Choice and Best Soundtrack of the Year..
The Syd Butterworth Lifetime Achievement Award went this year to two recipients - the outstanding team of.Gary Wilkins and Mark Wasiutak.
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A full list of winners can be found below.. Greg Bell Student Encouragement Award Sponsored by Amber Technology Jonathon Tooke (Sae) Best Sound for a Television Commercial or Promo Sponsored by Sound Devices. A Day in Creative Kathleen Burrows, Bruce Heald Best Sound...
Hosted by the hilarious Rhys Muldoon, it is the second consecutive year the Assg have held the ceremony on a Sunday, which has proved a popular choice with attendees..
Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby was the favourite on the day, taking home four gongs in total, including the Assg Member's Choice and Best Soundtrack of the Year..
The Syd Butterworth Lifetime Achievement Award went this year to two recipients - the outstanding team of.Gary Wilkins and Mark Wasiutak.
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A full list of winners can be found below.. Greg Bell Student Encouragement Award Sponsored by Amber Technology Jonathon Tooke (Sae) Best Sound for a Television Commercial or Promo Sponsored by Sound Devices. A Day in Creative Kathleen Burrows, Bruce Heald Best Sound...
- 11/18/2013
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The first round of Aacta award winners were announced yesterday in Sydney at the 2nd Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Luncheon. Held at the Sydney.s The Star Event Centre and hosted by Adam Elliot, the luncheon drew a host of industry representatives including actors Damon Herriman, Daniel Henshall and Felicity Price. The Sapphires was a favourite of the day, taking home five coveted gongs in total for cinematography (Warwick Thornton), editing (Dany Cooper Ase), sound (Andrew Plain, Bry Jones, Pete Smith, Ben Osmo and John Simpson), costume design (Tess Schofield) and production design in a feature film (Melinda Doring.) A jovial Thornton told media working with Sapphires director Wayne Blair wasn.t exactly a walk in the park. .He.s an incredibly hard task master,. he said. .You can.t pull the wool over his eyes when you feel like being lazy.. Cooper spoke of the...
- 1/28/2013
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
The Sapphires looks set to dominate this year’s Aacta Awards after dominating the categories announced at yesterday’s awards lunch.
The AACTAs – the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts – were held for the first time last year. Yesterday’s lunch at the Star casino in Sydney comes ahead of tomorrow night’s main Aacta ceremony.
The Sapphires won in five of the early categories, including best editing, sound and cinematography.
The event also paid tribute to producer Al Clark with the Raymond Longford Award. Clark was behind films including The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Absolute Beginners and Nineteen Eighty Four.
Tributes were also paid to producer Pat Lovell, who died over the weekend. Lovell was a producer on films including Picnic At Hanging Rock and Gallipoli.
The winners:
Aacta Raymond Longford Award
Al Clark
Aacta Award For Best Visual Effects
Iron Sky. Samuli Torssonen, Jussi Lehtiniemi,...
The AACTAs – the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts – were held for the first time last year. Yesterday’s lunch at the Star casino in Sydney comes ahead of tomorrow night’s main Aacta ceremony.
The Sapphires won in five of the early categories, including best editing, sound and cinematography.
The event also paid tribute to producer Al Clark with the Raymond Longford Award. Clark was behind films including The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Absolute Beginners and Nineteen Eighty Four.
Tributes were also paid to producer Pat Lovell, who died over the weekend. Lovell was a producer on films including Picnic At Hanging Rock and Gallipoli.
The winners:
Aacta Raymond Longford Award
Al Clark
Aacta Award For Best Visual Effects
Iron Sky. Samuli Torssonen, Jussi Lehtiniemi,...
- 1/28/2013
- by mumbrella
- Encore Magazine
Hit musical drama The Sapphires has scored 12 nominations at the 2012 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) Awards including in the coveted best feature film category.
The Sapphires, which follows four indigenous singers during the Vietnam war, has grossed more than $14 million in Australia to become the biggest local film of the year.
Three other films will be also be vying for the best feature film award: Burning Man (10 nominations in total), Lore (eight nominations in total) and Wish You Were Here (eight nominations in total) at the main Aacta ceremony, which will be held on January 30, 2013, at The Star Event Centre. Last year's event was held at the iconic Sydney Opera House.
P.J. Hogan's Mental also scored eight nominations including Best Lead Actress (Toni Collette), Best Supporting Actor (Liev Schreiber) Best Young Actor (Lily Sullivan) and Best Supporting Actress for Rebecca Gibney and Deborah Mailman.
Not Suitable for Children...
The Sapphires, which follows four indigenous singers during the Vietnam war, has grossed more than $14 million in Australia to become the biggest local film of the year.
Three other films will be also be vying for the best feature film award: Burning Man (10 nominations in total), Lore (eight nominations in total) and Wish You Were Here (eight nominations in total) at the main Aacta ceremony, which will be held on January 30, 2013, at The Star Event Centre. Last year's event was held at the iconic Sydney Opera House.
P.J. Hogan's Mental also scored eight nominations including Best Lead Actress (Toni Collette), Best Supporting Actor (Liev Schreiber) Best Young Actor (Lily Sullivan) and Best Supporting Actress for Rebecca Gibney and Deborah Mailman.
Not Suitable for Children...
- 12/3/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
The Sapphires has led the Academy of Australian Cinema and Television Arts Awards nominations being nominated in 12 categories.
Awards will be handed out over two events, with an awards luncheon, focused on craft categories on Monday January 28 and the main event on January 30. Both events will be held at the Star Event Centre, the first public events for the venue.
The Sapphires, distributed by Hopscotch/eOne has been nominated for Best Film, Best Direction and best adapted screenplay as well as Best Lead Actor and Actress for Chris O’Dowd and Deborah Mailman, and Best Supporting Actress for Jessica Mauboy.
Burning Man was not far behind on 10 nominations including best film and best direction as well as best lead actor for Matthre Goode and Best Supporting Actress for Essie Davis.
Three more films, Lore, Mental and Wish You Were Here received eight nominations while Not Suitable For Children received four.
Awards will be handed out over two events, with an awards luncheon, focused on craft categories on Monday January 28 and the main event on January 30. Both events will be held at the Star Event Centre, the first public events for the venue.
The Sapphires, distributed by Hopscotch/eOne has been nominated for Best Film, Best Direction and best adapted screenplay as well as Best Lead Actor and Actress for Chris O’Dowd and Deborah Mailman, and Best Supporting Actress for Jessica Mauboy.
Burning Man was not far behind on 10 nominations including best film and best direction as well as best lead actor for Matthre Goode and Best Supporting Actress for Essie Davis.
Three more films, Lore, Mental and Wish You Were Here received eight nominations while Not Suitable For Children received four.
- 12/3/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Roger Savage; photo by Zorro Gamarnik
A 40-year veteran of the Australian film industry has been recognised for his achievements by the Australian Screen Sound Guild Awards.
The Syd Butterworth lifetime Achievement Award went to sound mixer Roger Savage at a ceremony last night at Sydney’s The Establishment.
Savage’s first film was a surf documentary about the 1970 World Championship, Getting Back To Nothing, directed by Tim Burstall in 1971. His next film was Mad Max in 1979 Mad Max, as well as other classics Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and Crocodile Dundee. More recently Savage has worked on Mao’s Last Dancer and Mental.
Elsewhere at the awards, Burning Man won the best film sound recording beating out Wish You Were Here, Swerve, Lore and Killer Elite.
In a similar list of nominees, the best Film Sound Design went to Wish You Were Here ahead of Burning Man, Lore,...
A 40-year veteran of the Australian film industry has been recognised for his achievements by the Australian Screen Sound Guild Awards.
The Syd Butterworth lifetime Achievement Award went to sound mixer Roger Savage at a ceremony last night at Sydney’s The Establishment.
Savage’s first film was a surf documentary about the 1970 World Championship, Getting Back To Nothing, directed by Tim Burstall in 1971. His next film was Mad Max in 1979 Mad Max, as well as other classics Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and Crocodile Dundee. More recently Savage has worked on Mao’s Last Dancer and Mental.
Elsewhere at the awards, Burning Man won the best film sound recording beating out Wish You Were Here, Swerve, Lore and Killer Elite.
In a similar list of nominees, the best Film Sound Design went to Wish You Were Here ahead of Burning Man, Lore,...
- 11/26/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The Australian Sound Guild has announced the winners of.the 2012 Assg Awards.
Held yesterday at The Establishment Ballroom in Sydney, well over a hundred guests were in attendance.
The Assg has reported this year saw a record number of nominations.
Roger Savage (Babe, Moulin Rouge, Mental) was honoured with the Syd Butterworth Lifetime Achievement Award, and in his acceptance speech spoke of the difficulties the industry is currently facing.
.The problem we all face is low budgets,. he said. .We need to adapt to this new environment. It.s not just in Australia, it.s global. What we need to do is adapt and change.
.It is a collaborative industry and I.d like to share (this award) with everyone associated with sound, both past and present..
Best film sound mixing and best soundtrack both went to Killer Elite while Best Film Sound Design was awarded to Wish You Were Here.
Held yesterday at The Establishment Ballroom in Sydney, well over a hundred guests were in attendance.
The Assg has reported this year saw a record number of nominations.
Roger Savage (Babe, Moulin Rouge, Mental) was honoured with the Syd Butterworth Lifetime Achievement Award, and in his acceptance speech spoke of the difficulties the industry is currently facing.
.The problem we all face is low budgets,. he said. .We need to adapt to this new environment. It.s not just in Australia, it.s global. What we need to do is adapt and change.
.It is a collaborative industry and I.d like to share (this award) with everyone associated with sound, both past and present..
Best film sound mixing and best soundtrack both went to Killer Elite while Best Film Sound Design was awarded to Wish You Were Here.
- 11/25/2012
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Antony Partos and Sonar Music, the team behind the music of The Slap have led the nominees for the Australian Guild of Screen Composers, announced this morning while Burning Man, Storm Surfers 3D, Santa’s Apprentice and Needle are the four nominees for feature film score.
The announcement:
Today we pay tribute to the leading lights of Australian screen composition with the announcement of nominees for the 2012 Screen Music Awards. The event, to be held this year in Melbourne on Monday November 19th, is jointly staged by Apra (Australasian Performing Right Association) and the Agsc (Australian Guild of Screen Composers). It is the only Australian event where the music and screen industry gather to celebrate excellence in the composition of music for film and television.
Across twelve awards categories Apra and the Agsc are today proud to recognise 61 composers, and 40 works as representing the best in Australian screen composition for...
The announcement:
Today we pay tribute to the leading lights of Australian screen composition with the announcement of nominees for the 2012 Screen Music Awards. The event, to be held this year in Melbourne on Monday November 19th, is jointly staged by Apra (Australasian Performing Right Association) and the Agsc (Australian Guild of Screen Composers). It is the only Australian event where the music and screen industry gather to celebrate excellence in the composition of music for film and television.
Across twelve awards categories Apra and the Agsc are today proud to recognise 61 composers, and 40 works as representing the best in Australian screen composition for...
- 10/17/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Alex Lloyd and Pigram Brothers, Jed Kurzel, David Hirschfelder, David McCormack and The Chaser’s Andrew Hansen and Chris Taylor are among the nominees for the 2011 Screen Music Awards.
The 2011 Screen Music Awards are jointly presented by Apra (Australiasian Performing Rights Association) and Agsc (Australian Guild of Screen Composers).
In the category of the feature film score of the year, Alex Lloyd and Alan and Stephen Pigram are nominated for Mad Bastards alongside Jed Kurzel of rock band the Mess Hall, and brother of director Justin Kurzel is nominated for Snowtown. Past winner David Hirschfelder (Children of the Silk Road) is nominated for The Legend of the Guardians while Burkhard Dallwitz is nominated for The Way Back.
Dallwitz is also nominated for Underbelly Files: tell them Lucifer was here in the Best music for a mini-series or telemovie alongside Guy Gross for East West 101, Bryony Marks for Cloudstreet and...
The 2011 Screen Music Awards are jointly presented by Apra (Australiasian Performing Rights Association) and Agsc (Australian Guild of Screen Composers).
In the category of the feature film score of the year, Alex Lloyd and Alan and Stephen Pigram are nominated for Mad Bastards alongside Jed Kurzel of rock band the Mess Hall, and brother of director Justin Kurzel is nominated for Snowtown. Past winner David Hirschfelder (Children of the Silk Road) is nominated for The Legend of the Guardians while Burkhard Dallwitz is nominated for The Way Back.
Dallwitz is also nominated for Underbelly Files: tell them Lucifer was here in the Best music for a mini-series or telemovie alongside Guy Gross for East West 101, Bryony Marks for Cloudstreet and...
- 10/18/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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