TCM's 8th Annual Young Film Composers Competition Kicking Off Jan. 1 to Feature Beau Brummel
December 04 2006 - 3:25PM
PR Newswire (US)
Chance to Score Feature-Length Film for Debut on TCM and $15,000 Up
for Grabs in 2007 Competition ATLANTA, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Beau
Brummel (1924) -- matinee idol John Barrymore's portrayal of the
arrogant 19-century style mogul who enjoyed life among England's
upper class until he insulted his good friend, the Prince of Wales
-- has been chosen as the feature film for contestants in Turner
Classic Movies' 8th Annual Young Film Composers Competition, it was
announced today by Tom Karsch, executive vice president and general
manager of TCM. The competition will run from Jan. 1, 2007 - March
31, 2007, at http://www.tcm.com/yfcc and for the first time will be
open to participants from not only the United Kingdom and Canada
but also France and Spain. Last year more than 650 aspiring film
composers submitted entries for the competition, which resulted in
a new score for The Show (1927), a melodrama of a Budapest
sideshow. Winning composer Darrell Raby's work will air with the
film for the first time on TCM on Monday, Jan. 29, 2007 at 8 p.m.
ET and encores at 1 a.m. ET/10 p.m. PT. Oscar(R)-winning composer
Hans Zimmer, whose numerous scores include The Da Vinci Code and
the soon-to-be-released Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End and
The Simpsons Movie, will return to lead a blue-ribbon panel of
judges in selecting the grand-prize winner of this year's Young
Film Composers Competition in Los Angeles in August 2007. Finalists
will travel to Los Angeles in August for seminars on the film and
TV music industry at the YFCC Expo, a tour of the Warner Bros. lot,
including the music department where the original scores of such
great films as Casablanca are housed, and more. For two days the
young composers will have an inside look at the competitive world
of film and TV scoring and an opportunity to meet some of the key
players in the industry, culminating at an awards banquet and
ceremony where the grand-prize winner will be announced. Runners up
will also receive prizes, including Apple laptops and Logic Pro
Software. Zimmer, who will lead the judges' panel for a third
straight year, brings to the role more than two decades of
experience in film scoring, a host of awards and a passion for
nurturing young composers. Once the 2007 winner is named, Zimmer
will mentor them through the process of scoring the silent classic
by offering guidance on everything from developing musical themes
to working with live musicians in a professional sound recording
stage. The 2007 Young Film Composers Competition is sponsored by
Film Music Magazine. Turner Classic Movies, currently seen in more
than 75 million homes, is a 24-hour cable network from Turner
Broadcasting System, Inc. TCM presents the greatest motion pictures
of all time from the largest film library in the world, the
combined TimeWarner and Turner film libraries, from the '20s
through the '90s, commercial-free and without interruption.
Expanding TCM's role as a curator of movie history, the network
recently launched TCMdb, the Internet's most media-rich interactive
movie database. For more information, please visit tcm.com. Turner
Broadcasting System, Inc., a TimeWarner company, is a major
producer of news and entertainment product around the world and the
leading provider of programming for the basic cable industry.
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