The 15th World Soundtrack Awards is the closing event of Film Fest Gent on 24 October 2015. The WSAwards aims at supporting film music, sound design, composers and their worldwide promotion. In fifteen years time, the WSAcademy has grown into a group of 370 international professionals nominating through several rounds of voting.
Artistic Director Patrick Duynslaegher: "If you are looking for the next generation of great composers, you just have to look at the World Soundtrack Discovery Awards, where composers as Michael Giacchino, Gustavo Santaolalla, Craig Armstrong and Abel Korzeniowski were acknowledged early on in their career by the WSAwards Advisory Board."
NOMINATIONS DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR
The Discovery of the Year Award is aimed at encouraging emerging talent, who have scored not more than six feature films with theatrical releases in total. Besides receiving the award, the winner will perform at the 16th WSAwards in 2016. The nominees for Discovery of 2015 are:
- Alex Ebert for ‘A Most Violent Year’
- Dominic Lewis for ‘Spooks: The Greater Good’
- Antonio Sanchez for ‘Birdman’
- Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow for ‘Ex Machina’
- Zhiyi Wang for ‘But Always’ & ‘Highway of Love’
SABAM AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG COMPOSER
Each year young film music talent is given the chance to receive the SABAM Award For Best Young Composer. The candidates were instructed to compose music for a scene of ‘The Third Man’ (1949) by Carol Reed, in the context of FFGent’s British focus this year. The winner receives the SABAM Award (with a value of €2.500) and follows in the footsteps of composer Cyril Molesti, winner of 2014. The professional jury consists of Patrick Duynslaegher (Artistic Director FFGent), Dirk Brossé (composer, conductor and Music Director FFGent), composer Michel Herr, Stefan Rycken (manager ACE Image Factory), Hans Helewaut (Managing director SABAM) and director Adil El Arbi. They chose 3 finalists:
- Maxime Hervé (Canada)
- Peer Kleinschmidt (Germany)
- Roman Falkenstein (Latvia)
PUBLIC CHOICE AWARD
At the 15th edition of the World Soundtrack Awards, the winner of the Public Choice Award for the Best Score will be announced. These are the 5 scores of the past year that were most voted for by the public.
- ‘A Little Chaos’ by Peter Gregson
- ‘Ex Machina’ by Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow
- ‘Far From Men’ by Warren Ellis & Nick Cave
- ‘The Maze Runner’ by John Paesano
- ‘Timbuktu’ by Amine Bouhafa
15TH WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS
The World Soundtrack Awards will celebrate its 15th anniversary with Alan Silvestri (‘Back to the Future’, ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ and ‘Forrest Gump’), Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Patrick Doyle and Discovery 2014 Daniel Pemberton. Film Fest Gent will also release an album with the best scores of Silvestri, recorded at Flagey Studios in Brussels by Galaxy Studios. Conducted by Dirk Brossé and performed by Brussels Philharmonic & Flemish Radio Choir. The record will be released by Silva Screen Record Limited.
The 15th World Soundtrack Awards & Concert will take place on 24 October 2015 at Kuipke in Ghent. Watch the teaser HERE. All info & tickets can be found on worldsoundtrackawards.com. Listen to the WSAwards playlist and much more on the Spotify account of Film Fest Gent. #ffgent #WSAwards
BodyBeats Productions & Dark Balloon present:
Simi Nah - Be My Guest V2.0
Absolute Body Control + Ex Rz
DJ BORG vs Skullscraper
After the succesful and SOLD-OUT first edition of Simi Nah's Be My Guest concept concert earlier this year at De Casino (St-Niklaas, B) our friends and collegues of Dark Balloon decided to have a second edition. This time Simi Nah and her guests will be perfoming at GC Den Dries (Retie, B). Invited this atime are Luc Van Acker (Revolting Cocks/ Arbeid Adelt!), Nikkie Van Lierop (Jade 4U, 101, Lords Of Acid), Dirk Ivens (Absolute Body Control/Dive/The Klinik/Sonar), KGB, Sayfie, Gert Van Geel (The Arch). Blasting after party beats & noizes will be spun by DJ BORG vs Dirk Ivens!
The Underground Youth, who have just released their new LP, Haunted, on the 4th of September, are embarking on a 39 dates UK and EU tour. The tour will start on the 25th of October with a set at the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia.
Monica Richards, the marvelous front woman of Faith & The Muse, just released.... a coloring book for adults !
If you ever feel the need to calm yourself, why not attempt this by coloring a beautiful goddess, carefully drawn by Monica herself !
The Goddess Book is available for preorder!
Explore your inner goddess with this 48-page, detailed coloring book! This book comes perfect-bound, 8.5 X 11 in size. 23 carefully drawn illustrations are printed on thick, bright white paper that makes coloring with gel pens, pencils, or watercolor markers feel like a dream. THE GODDESS coloring book gives you hours and hours of therapeutic bliss! Published by ZED Presents, the book is being offered with unperforated or perforated pages, which will allow pages to easily be removed for coloring separately or after coloring, to frame.
Goddess List: Amaterasu, Anahita, Arianrhod, Artemis (Diana), Athena, Bast (Bastet), Brigid, Coyolxauhqui, Demeter (Ceres), Durga, Estsanatlehi, Freya, Hathor (Isis), Kali, Mami Wata, Maria Lionza, The Morrigan, Naga Kanya, Oya, Quan Yi, Rhiannon (Epona), Sphinx, Spider Woman/Spider Grandmother. Each page comes with an explanation of the Goddess on the back.
Each book will come signed with a couple Goddess Badges included.
One of the most successful German Electro-Pop-acts returns with a new single. „All The Things You Say“ combines catchy anthemic qualities with dance-floor-compatible power-electronics to form a moving club-hit.
As the front man of the highly successful Dark-Rock-bands Dreadful Shadows and Zeraphine, he became one of the scene's figureheads and with Solar Fake, Sven Friedrich also created an equally popular Electro-project. The new single “All The Things You Say” is a perfect appetizer for album number 4: the title song gradually evolves from a memorable synth-lick into a super-catchy club-anthem. Driven by Friedrich's trademark deep yet soothing voice, the song unleashes an emotional impact that is seldom encountered in electronic Pop music. The single is topped-off with a guitar-laden Rock-remix from Hamburg-based Dark-Rock-legend Lord Of The Lost, a floor filling club mix from Rotersand and an acoustic live-rendition of Solar Fake's classic “The Pages” and whets your appetite for more. Yet again, Solar Fake effectively prove that they are a force to be reckoned with in the international Electro-Pop-scene and manage to raise expectations for the upcoming album “Another Manic Episode.” “All The Things You Say” is released as Maxi-CD, limited to 777 copies in a classy, hand-numbered Digipak.
01 All The Things You Say (04:34)
02 All The Things You Say(Lord of the Lost Remix) (05:18)
03 All The Things You Say (Rotersand Rework) (06:16)
04 The Pages (live acoustic) (04:46)
