Film Composer
News...
Alexandra McGuinness' first feature film Lotus Eaters has been selected for the Tribeca Film Festival in New York,
and will have its premiere there on April 18th.
German tragically comical feature film Schenk Mir Dein Herz (Give Me Your Heart) will hit German cinemas in May.
It is produced by Wüste Film (Head On etc.) for NDR/ARTE.
Bjørn Bratberg's wonderfully poetic documentary Wood of Value won the Best Documentary Short Film Award
at the Minghella Film Festival in London.
German feature film Auf der Suche (Looking for Simon) has been selected for the Berlin International Film Festival
and had its premiere there on 13th February.
It is a subtle drama about a mother going to Marseille, searching for her son who has disappeared.
We finished the orchestral recordings for another German feature, The Berlin Project (working title), in Bratislava,
recording about 70 minutes of music with the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra. A great experience in a very nice atmosphere.
New York, New York ! I am happy to have been awarded Best Film Music at the South Asian International Film Festival in New York,
for the music of feature film The Last Thakur, together with my co-composer, Kishon Khan. Almost an Oscar...ok, not quite.
The Last Thakur is available on DVD now in the UK.
German primetime tv drama Solange Du Schliefst (ZDF) had its tv premiere in October 2010 and was very well received.
Furthermore, work on the second season of docudrama series Fatal Attractions is carrying on. Beware of your pets !
Jakob Rørvik's film Scratch ( Breakthru Films / Motlys ) won the prize for Best Short Film at the Aubagne Film Festival
in France and is currently screening at various European festivals.
Here are some video examples of my work - enjoy !
The Incredibles
Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Solange Du Schliefst
Outta Control
Die Fremde
Tanju Miah
Listen. Turn up the volume. I hope some of it will trigger your imagination.
Have a little patience while the songs are loading.
Born in Germany, my mum used to observe me playing with my fingers on the table like on a piano.
Luckily for me, she got me the right equipment a couple of years later, and my first used piano
proved to be superior to the tableside...
From there, it wasn't such a long way to graduating from the National Film & Television School in 2006,
with an MA (Distinction) in Composing for Film & Television. Before coming to the UK, I studied music at
Freiburg’s Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in my native Germany.
With a mixed musical background of pop/jazz
and classical music, I provided orchestral arrangements for pop artists as well as writing concert music,
and orchestrating and conducting the score for the 2003 BBC documentary John Logie Baird – The Man Who Saw the Future.
In the UK, I was part of the team that won the Best Soundtrack Award at soundtrackcologne 2005.
The wide range of short films I have been working on have been screened and in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival
(Prix UIP 2007 for Rotten Apple), Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary, Edinburgh Film Festival,
just to name a few.
I was also selected from over 300 applicants, as one of only twelve participants of the highly regarded
ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop,
held in Los Angeles in July 2007.
In 2006, I worked for my mentor Dario Marianelli
( Pride & Prejudice, Atonement )
on the soundtrack for his film, The Return.
Last year, I scored the
BBC documentary Massacre at Virginia Tech and German TV Feature, Outta Control,
for WDR ( winner of the Adolf-Grimme Prize 2009 and the FIPA D'Or ).
I also recently completed work on The Last Thakur, (Artificial Eye / Breakthru Films),
the feature debut by fellow NFTS graduate Sadik Ahmed as released in cinemas in June 2009,
for which I have been awarded Best Film Score at the South Asian Int. Film Festival New York / SAIFF.
I have also completed the music for the Feature documentary, The Trial, as directed by John Murphy for Headland Pictures.
I am currently scoring the music for a major 3 part drama documentary for
Oxford Scientific Films/Animal Planet/BBC entitled, Fatal Attractions.
