FILM & TV MUSIC
Previewing a selection of commissioned compositions
| Romeo and Juliet |
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| Director: | Baz Luhrmann |
| Producer: | Gabriella Martinelli |
| Company: | Twentieth century fox |
| Outline: | The classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy is updated by director Baz Luhrmann to a post-modern Verona Beach where swords are merely a brand of gun and bored youths are easily spurred toward violence. Longtime rivals in religion and business, the Montagues and the Capulets share a page from the Jets and Sharks of West Side Story when they form rival gangs. |
| Krakatoa - The Last Days |
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| Director: | Sam Miller |
| Producer: | Alen Eyers |
| Company: | BBC |
| Outline: | ( Aka Krakatoa-Volcano of destruction.)
A factual drama that highlights stories of survival based on personal diaries from 1883, including Dutch Controller Willem Beijerinck and his wife Johanna, as they struggle to save their family and colony. Stars Rupert Penry-Jones, Olivia Williams. |
| Among Giants |
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| Director: | Sam Miller |
| Producer: | Stephen Garrett |
| Company: | Kudos |
| Outline: | A triangular love story played out against a spectacular North of England landscape. Two mens lives are changed forever when a young Australian woman joins their team of painters on a risky and not quite kosher job. (Stars Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Griffiths) |
| Much ado about nothing |
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| Director: | Brian Percival |
| Producer: | Diederick Santer |
| Company: | BBC (Shakespeare retold) |
| Outline: | Sarah Parish, Damian Lewis and Billie Piper star in this tale of love and deception in the studios of Wessex Tonight. |
| Elephant Juice - Clip 13mb |
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| Director: | Sam Miller |
| Producer: | Sheila Fraser- Milne |
| Company: | Mirramax |
| Outline: | A story which follows the friendships, failings, love affairs and tragedies of a group of friends living in contemporary London. |
| Quite ugly one morning |
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| Director: | Sam Miller |
| Producer: | Murray Fergusson |
| Company: | Clerkenwell films |
| Outline: | Investigative journalist Jack Parlabane (James Nesbitt) is struggling with the hangover from hell when he stumbles upon the aftermath of a murder in the flat downstairs: a bizarrely mutilated doctor, killed in what looks like a burglary gone wrong. Not a great start to the morning, and it soon gets worse. Before he can even put his trousers on. |
