HARPA Nordic Film Music Days & Composers Award 2022

Saturday February 12 & Sunday February 13

full program at the Nordische Botschaften
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Nordic Film Music Days 365
After a successful 2021 online edition of HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award and Nordic Film Music Days we are heading towards the 2022 edition. Hopefully with a possibility of meeting all of you and presenting the high quality of this years Nordic films and this years media music at Nordische Botschaften in Berlin again. 
Until then we hope to see you at our new endeavor as we present online seminars through-out the year, where we are continuously putting the spotlight on Nordic films and media music, the craft and the artists. 
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We call it Nordic Film Music Days 365
I have been focusing on scoring documentaries since 1997 and have worked with many filmmakers in all kinds of scenarios. The most common thing they tell me: I don’t know anything about music. But that is not true! 
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In this short seminar Miriam Cutler will give a talk about her personal experiences of working as a composer and will introduce her toolbox of how to collaborate and network as an independent and finding a mutual language. 
A special focus will be on Music Story Arc. 

www.miriamcutler.com
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Seminar #4 | Nordic Film Music Days and Danish Film and Media Composers in cooperation with the American Embassy in Denmark | What are the composers talking about ?

December 2nd 2021 17-18:30 ZOOM 
 
Emmy nominated Composer, Miriam Cutler is passionate about scoring documentaries, among them Emmy winning, Sundance, and Oscar nominated films:  TIL KINGDOM COME, FLANNERY, RBG, DARK MONEY, LOVE GILDA, A PLASTIC OCEAN, FINDING KUKAN, ETHEL, LOST IN LA MANCHA, THIN, POSTER GIRL, KINGS POINT, GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB, AMERICAN PROMISE, VITO, DESERT OF FORBIDDEN ART, SCOUTS HONOR, LICENSE TO KILL, ONE LAST HUG.   Miriam Co-Produced and scored ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT and DARK MONEY. 

She has served often as Lab Advisor for the Sundance Institute Documentary Composers Lab, on documentary juries including Sundance, Independent Spirit Awards, IDA Awards. She has been a guest instructor at California Institute for the Arts, USC, Loyola Marymount, Columbia College Chicago, UCLA, International Documentary Association, and more. She has co-produced two Grammy-nominated live jazz albums on PolyGram/Verve for Joe Williams, and albums for Nina Simone, Shirley Horn, and Marlena Shaw plus her own music.

​Miriam is an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Documentary Executive Branch member, TV Academy Executive Music Branch committee member, a founding member of the Alliance For Women Film Composers, TV Academy Music Branch Executive Committee, and a long time board member of The Society of Composers and lyricists.
​Linda Zachrison has just completed her position as chairman of the state investigation Från Kris till Kraft- Återstart för kulturen. Between 2015-2020 she was the Swedish Cultural Council in the USA, based in Washington, D.C. She has previously been head of the Audience department at the Swedish Film Institute, head of Parkteatern and the international guest performance scene at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm, CEO of Cirkus Cirkör and political expert at the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture.
Photo: Daniel Schwartz
Joakim Boström Elias works as an analyst at the Swedish agency for cultural policy analysis. Joakim is also the operations manager for the agency’s Nordic assignment "Culture Analysis Norden", which is an assignment for the Nordic Council of Ministers. Joakim has previously worked with industry and growth issues as an analyst at the Swedish Agency for Growth policy Analysis, with regional development, and before that as a consultant within similar assignments.
Seminar #3 | Nordic Film Music Days and Skap | Culture in the Nordics - post corona 

Wednesday November 17th 2021 14:30-16 ZOOM 

A panel conversation about initiatives and solutions to kick start the culture in the Nordic again - both in the short term but also long term. A special focus will be on music and the film industry.  
 
We have invited Linda Zachrison to present and discuss the suggestions for film, music and culture from the newly launched Swedish report, Från kris till kraft - Återstart för kulturen and to give us a Nordic perspective we have invited the Joakim Brostrøm Elias, who is behind pan Nordic report from April, Covid 19 pandemiens effecter på kultursektoren I de Nordiske lande. 
Welcome to a seminar on hope and pointing towards the future. 

Moderator Einer Idsøe Eidsvåg, Music Norway  
Seminar #2 | Nordic Film Music Days and Oslo Pix | MASTERCLASS with Max Richter | Friday June 4th 3-4 pm CET
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In a collaboration with Oslo Pix 2021 Nordic Film Music Days offers you a chance to meet the awardwinning British composer, Max Richter.  
In a conversation with Kate Havnevik we will hear about the documentary MAX RICHTERS SLEEP (part of Oslo Pix 2021) followed by a talk about Richters work and process as a composer. 
 
ABOUT MAX RICHTER
Richter is one of the most important composers of the 21st Century. From synthesizers and computers to a full symphony orchestra, Richter’s innovative work encompasses solo albums, ballets, concert hall performances, film and television series, video art installations and theatre works. 
​Richter has written award-winning music for more than 50 film and TV projects including Mary Queen of Scots, Hostiles, HBO’s My Brilliant Friend and The Leftovers, Tom Hardy’s Taboo, and Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror.
 
In 2015 Max Richter premiered SLEEP, a landmark 8.5 hour musical recording played overnight to sleeping audiences. In 2019 Nathalie Johns premiered a documentary describing the project, MAX RICHTERS SLEEP. 


Due to area restrictions access to SLEEP is not possible from certain territories. Nordic Film Music Days is working on a solution making it possible for members of our network to watch the film. ​​
The masterclass is carried out as a conversation between Kate Havnevik from NOPA and Max Richter.

This seminar is supported by NOPA and Music Norway and arranged as a cooperation between Oslo Pix and Nordic Film Music Days.
Seminar # 1 | Nordic Film Music Days and the GMS on Music Supervision, on Tuesday May 25h at 10.00-12.00 CET.
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Nordic Film Music Days and the The UK & European Guild of Music Supervisors are inviting you to a talk about the development of the profession of music supervisor in the Nordics and a discussion on how the film composer network and music supervisors could work together to improve music budgets in the Nordic film industry.
INTRODUCTION: What is music supervision?

In partnership with the UK & European Guild Of Music Supervisors, the introduction to music supervision will look into the role of music supervision in film and audiovisual projects and how music supervisors and composers can cooperate.
Rupert Hollier, Creative Director of Atlantic Screen Music, and supervision agency, Redfive will give is a short introduction to the topic.
Rupert is co-founder and senior board member of The UK & European Guild of Music Supervisors. With his supervision agency Redfive, Rupert Hollier has supervised films such as The wife, McQueen, Greed, Worth, and The Silencing.
PANEL DISCUSSION: Developing Music Supervision in the Nordics

A panel of music supervisors, one from each of the Nordic countries will map the markets from a music supervisors point of view. How will the development of the profession of a music supervisor be in the interest of composers? What can music supervisors and composers do together to raise the importance of music in film productions and budgets?
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