News
A selection of recent news items...
Just For Laughs Festival 2008 for film "Terry Southern's Plums and Prunes"
Richard delivered sound design for this short film, written by the legendary Terry Southern - Easy Rider; Dr. Strangelove; Barbarella; Saturday Night Live etc. - and brought to the screen by D Khanna.
After a world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007, 'Terry Southern's Plums and Prunes' heads up to Montreal Quebec for the annual Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in July 2008. It is to be screened as part of the 12th annual Just For Laughs Film Festival/Eat My Twisted Shorts program - "the largest comedy short film festival in the world" they say... The film get a UK screening at the Portobello Film Festival 2008 in London, England...
Considered too controversial to be made when written by Southern back in the 1960's, it has only now been created for the screen, and has the full backing of the Terry Southern estate.
'Last Run' get first USA screening at Illinois film Festival...
Richard recently completed work on the muscial score and sound design for Brian Yung's short film, Last Run.
Having written an initial score for the project, this was then deconstructed - elements were manipulated in various ways to create a different suite of music. Last Run - shot on beautiful, warm, film - is a piece with a blind man as it's central character. All music and sound design therefore was an interpretation of what this character may experience through a hightened auditory perspective of his surroundings.
Richard even got the opportunity to tip his hat to a favorite 1970's film score by Roy Budd - Get Carter, starring Michael Caine - by utilising instruments such as the dulcitone to emphasise the winter backdrop of Last Run. Sound design elements were captured on set also, which both inspired the score and ensured the ambiences were authentic in the mix.
UPDATE: 'Last Run' begins its film festival journey in the US, playing at the iMAGO Film Festival in April 2009...
Feature Film "Baby Blues"
Richard created sound design for feature film, Baby Blues in late 2007.
Baby Blues was nominated for 3 Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association (AMPIA) Rosie Awards - Best Feature Film, Best Cinematographer (Andrew Scholotiuk) and Best Writer (Lewaa Naserdeen).
On 11th January 2008 the film opened at movie theatres in Windsor, Canada and made total weekend box office revenues of $17,000 - making it the Highest Per-Screen-Average for North America that weekend.
The film begins a rotation on movie tv station, Super Channel in December 2008.
The Last Day - award winning short film...
"The Last Day", a film by Jacob Owens premiered at the Atlantic Film Festival in September 2007, and continues to be screened at festivals worldwide including Barcelona and Madrid. Richard wrote the score for this project - full orchestra with piano. The film won the award for 'Best Short Film" at the 8th Muestra Internacional De Cine GLBT in Valladolid, Spain.
Subsequently, Richard wrote the orchestral score for Jacob's film, "Copain de Memoires", also an Atlantic Film Festival 2007 selection, which has screened at film festivals in Miami, New York City and Europe.
Feature film 'Nara' is coming soon...
Richard created all sound design for this upcoming Canadian feature length thriller/horror film.
The film offered up a host of fantastic opportunities for sound design - a lot of visually rich scenes/cuts to trigger the imagination.
He also contributed five pieces of music to the film's score.
A cinema release is being scheduled for Summer 2009 in Canada.
In the meantime the film gets the first in a series of early screenings at the Hamilton Film Festival 2008 in early November.
Watch the theatrical trailer here... http://narathemovie.com/
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