VIFF Amp and the VSO Present: Live Score Showcase

Over the past two months, three-time Emmy-nominated film and television composer Miriam Cutler has mentored five filmmakers and twelve composers to create original scores to scenes from four BC films. This is your opportunity to hear their final works at a live-to-picture performance featuring 20 members of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. You will also hear from each filmmaker, who will talk about how they collaborated with the composers to deliver and record these scores.

This project is the culmination of the inaugural year of the VIFF Amp Music in Film Summit’s Composer Filmmaker Accelerator, which has included online mentorship sessions, orchestration support and professional recording sessions at Bryan Adams’ iconic Warehouse Studios in Vancouver by Damon Tedesco, head engineer at the historic Newman Scoring Stage in Los Angeles.

Films featured include Golden Delicious by Jason Karman, which premiered at VIFF 2022, along with Once There Was a Winter by Ana Valine, Ash by Andrew Huculiak and Cayne McKenzie, and Just Me and the Dogs (to be released in November) by Dide Su Bilgin.