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Seminar #9
Buy-outs - What are they and how do they affect you?

​Tue. 24.01.23  | 17.00–18.00 CET

Join Kasper Lindhardt (senior legal advisor at Koda), Anselm Kreuzer (FFACE vice-chair), and Marc du Moulin (ECSA Secretary General) as they tell you everything you need to know about contracts, what buy-outs are, and how they can affect composers, and what steps the EU is taking within this issue.
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From the chat we have collected 

ECSA’s vision on how to prevent buy-outs
https://composeralliance.org/media/250-ecsas-vision-on-how-europe-can-prevent-buyout-contracts.pdf
Commission adopts Guidelines on collective agreements by solo self-employed people: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_5796
French Presidency initiative about the effectiveness of the European Copyright framework: https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10629-2022-INIT/x/pdf (English version from page 21)
Recording video from ECSA 2019 EU Copyright Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM5uINI5jhM&ab_channel=ECSAEuropeanComposerandSongwriterAlliance 
Flashback document on ECSA 2019 EU Copyright Conference: https://composeralliance.org/media/758-flashback-document-2019-eu-copyright-conference.pdf
ECSA-GESAC Press release: roundtable on buy-outs: https://composeralliance.org/news/2022/11/press-release-european-authors-and-composers-call-for-the-eu-to-put-an-end-to-the-coercive-buy-out-practices-of-us-based-vod-platforms/
ECSA Creators Conference will be shared on our social media and website: https://composeralliance.org/events/creators-conference/
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​Seminar #8
The Woodcutter Story


Wed. 14.12.22 | 17.45 – 19.00 CET

Together with the post graduate program of the Danish Film Education NFMD 365 are offering you to meet the Finnish and Danish creative team behind the Finnsih movie, The Woodcutter Story.

Meet director Mikko Myllylahti, sounddesigner Peter Albrechtsen and composer Jonas Struck. In a conversation moderated by Danish filmcomposer Anna Rosenkilde they will give insight on their creative process. 
For attendees present at the Danish Film and Media School the seminar will begin with watching the movie. 



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​Seminar #7
Empathetic storytelling: co-creating music, film & media tech
 
​Wed. 09.11.22
| 13.45 – 14.45 CET
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An open discussion/roundtable about the need to collaborate better and at earlier stage at the intersection of music, film & media tech. In times of converging media that offer spectacular new opportunities to music composers and producers, how can we enable media creatives to make better use of music for their storytelling and composers to leverage the superpower of music, emotion, with more self-evidence?
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if you sign up on the right side we will send you a link for
free online streaming of the seminar.  


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Seminar #6
Dramaturgy of emotions 

Wed. 18.05.22  
| 17.00 – 19.00 CET | Koda (CPH) or ZOOM 

Niels Pagh Andersen has helped to draw the international success of Danish documentary film.
In his book , 'Order in Chaos' (2021), he presents his personal perspective on the art of editing documentaries. Based on the book and with regard to the very special conversation that can arise between the editor and the composer, we have asked Niels Pagh Andersen to put together a course especially for composers and editors. 
The event is created as a collaboration with FAF and Danish Film and Media Composers. 
Seminar #5  
Texture and melody: Trend Sounds in Contemporary Film Music

Thu. 17.03.22 
| 15.00 – 16.00 CET (ZOOM) 

This webinar explores certain trend sounds in contemporary film music, specifically the coexistence of textural scores and melody? Where has the film music landscape changed and when can we still see the classical idioms and work practices? And how does technology feature in this evolution?

The panelists are composers Marcus Paus and Christine Hals. Paus is an awardwinning Norwegian composer of both film and concert hall, and was nominated for the Harpa award for his score to TORDEN [MORTAL] (2020). Hals is a vocalist and composer who has experience from both the Norwegian and US film industry, having worked on the original FROZEN (2013) and recently scored her first major motion picture KAMPEN OM NARVIK [THE BATTLE OF NARVIK] (2022).
The conversation will be moderated by Thor Joachim Haga, editor of the film music site celluloidtunes.no and Nordic co-ordinator for the International Film Music Critics Association.

Seminar #5 is carried out in cooperation with Komponistforeningen (NO) 

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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?


 Thu. 02.12.21 | 17.00 – 18.30 CET (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 

 Wed. 17.11.21 | 14.30 – 16.00 CET (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 

Fri. 04.06.21 
| 15.00 – 16.00 
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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. ​

More about Max Richter 
More about the Music Sleep
More Max Richter's "SLEEP" at Oslo Pix

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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.
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Seminar # 1 
Nordic Film Music Days and the GMS on Music Supervision  

Tue. 25.05.21 
| 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.
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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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Virpi Immonen
Birgir Örn Steinarsson
Jeppe Kaltoft
Katariina Sorsa
Rupert Hollier
Johan Husvik
SEMINAR #1 
Mon. 16.11.20 
| 17.30 – 19.00 CET 
PR & SELF PROMOTION with Thomas Mikusz & Chandler Poling of White Bear PR.
​In collaboration with Nomex. 
Watch seminar here 

SEMINAR #2
Tue. 08.12.20 
| 18.30 – 20.00 CET 
CONTRACTs, COPYRIGHTs & BUYOUTs
with Adrian Strain & Cristina Perpiñá-Robert Navarro from CISAC
Watch lecture here 


​SEMINAR #3
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Tue. 12.01.21  |
​Talk with composers Rebekka Karijord & Jon Ekstrand
and Katrine Amsler & Flemming Nordkrog. 
​Looking at the various forms that collaboration can take,
and discussing any tips for composers who are considering pairing up on a creative project.
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  • Nordic Film Music Days
  • NFMD 365
  • HARPA winners & nominees
    • 2023 WHAT HAPPENED
    • 2022 WHAT HAPPENED
    • 2021 WHAT HAPPENED
    • 2020 WHAT HAPPENED >
      • 2020 NFMD fotos
    • 2019 WHAT HAPPENED >
      • 2019 HARPA
      • 2019 NFMD fotos
      • 2019 composers
      • SPEAKERS & PANELISTS 2019
    • 2018 WHAT HAPPENED >
      • 2018 HARPA
      • 2018 NFMD
    • 2017 WHAT HAPPENED >
      • 2017 ...from Cannes
      • 2017 ... Seminars from Cannes
      • 2017 HARPA
      • 2017 Impressions from Cannes
  • Composers
    • DENMARK COMPOSER
    • FINLAND COMPOSER
    • ICELAND COMPOSER
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    • SWEDEN COMPOSER
  • Press releases
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