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To have my music described by the RTS judges as DARK, BOLD, and UNFORGETTABLE is a win for me! 💜 Absolutely over the moon to take home an RTS Award for Best Original Music Score for Video Nasty tonight! Thanks to everyone for an unforgettable evening, and it was so lovely to have my Deadpan Pictures & WFTV comrades there! Thanks to all who support my sorcery! 🎶💜🎶 🎧 Original Music Score (sponsored by The Nerve) WINNER: Die Hexen, Video Nasty – Deadpan Pictures for BBC & Virgin Media #RTSNI #VideoNasty Reposted from @rts_northern_ireland

My golden King Kong beast of an award finally arrived! ❤️ 🦍🖤 Winning the award for excellence in my craft - BEST SCORE @sitgesfestival 2024 for first Irish-language horror FRÉWAKA truly is such an honour! ☘️ A huge thank-you to visionary Writer /Director Aislinn Clarke, the jury & my peers for recognising my sorcery! @womaninfan 🏆Millor música de la SOFC (patrocinat per DARK) Die Hexen per "Fréwaka" #BestScore #Composer #Sitges2024 Special thanks to Writer/ Director @thewirelessgirl for trusting me to score your visionary work. Scoring your film was a totally cathartic experience. I seriously can't wait to score your next! ✨️ Huge thanks to @ruthbateofficial for assisting on the mix, @liobap for performing strings on O'Neill's March, Brendan @outerlimitspost fellow amazingly talented HOD's, the truly inspiring cast and crew, Doubleband Films, Wildcard, Screen Ireland, NI Screen, TG4, Arts Council NI, SCGI, WFTV, The AWFC and everyone who continues to show love and support for what I do! ❤️ #Irishfilm

Truly honoured! 💫✨️🎶❤️‍🔥🏆❤️‍🔥 🎶 ✨️💫 Thank you, Ash, cast & crew & @iftaacademy for supporting my sorcery! 🔮 #FRÉWAKA☘️ #BestOriginalMusic #Composer #IFTA25 #Irishfilm #AislinnClarke

WHO’S JOINING US FOR DIALOGUES 2026? Swipe across to meet SOME of the creatives, industry professionals, and mentors behind our Composition Strand. Applications close this Friday, 15 May. Link in bio. Funded by the Shared Island Civic Society Fund, Dept of Foreign Affairs & Trade @dumbworldltd @regionalculturalcentre @soundfilmfestival @ulsteruni @yarn_ballycastle @docsireland @hardrainse @cmcireland @artscouncilni @belfastcitycouncil #VisualArt #SoundArt #CreativeOpportunities #OpenCall #EmergingArtists

Everyday is Mother's Day over at Shudder #FRÉWAKA ☘️ in great company! Motherhood can be terrifying. Spend Mother’s Day with some of horror’s most unforgettable moms. Streaming now @shudder #AislinnClarke #DieHexen #Composer #SoundDesigner

Elated the stunning @gardeningshortfilm by Sarah Beeby, Louisa Wood, scored by this witch is screening @riolgbtqia in RIO!✨ The laurel is inspired by tropical species from the Atlantic Forest, it reflects the Brazilian DNA: diverse, vibrant, resilient, and free. The festival looks amazing and It is such a great fit for Gardening 🌱🫶 ‘Gardening’ is a film by Sarah Beeby, written by @louisa_woodx with a story by Sarah Beeby and Louisa Wood. It is produced by @filmshipster , with support from the #NationalLottery and @britishfilminstitute CAST Leonora — @evannalynch 
Imani — @speechdebelle 
Quillan — Freddie Fox
Rita — @chetnapandyaofficial 
Detective Danforth — Simon Mc Burney Lady Inspiri’Paji - @ellenthomasuk ANIMATION Lead Animators — @fhotson @amandajespersenholm rebeccaperrone @sarasaruni_ Michael Schlingmann
Animation — @doodle_curls @the_drawing_slug @amberdusty DESIGN Additional Background Design — @_liamcobb_ 
Additional Background Painting — @niwakins STORY Storyboards — @sarahbeeby 
Clean-Up — @ashjiangwu 
Script Supervisor — @ludosmolski 
Editor — Emil Joseph SOUND & MUSIC Music by @diehexen 
Sound Design - @louismorandsound ‘Perfume Equinox’ and ‘Hotdog Factor’ By @skillbard Voice recording @fitzroviapost CASTING @gilbertandcovellcasting POST Colour Grade @vicki_matich_colourist @molinarepost Mix - Helen Miles @molinarepost CROWD VOICES Mark Burman, @susankyd , Josh Lacey, Dylan Mason, Tim Morand, Eve Norris PRODUCTION Production support from @abbabaddison 
 #nationallottery #bfi #independentanimation Reposted from @sarahbeeby

Lovely to see Lesbian Lines 📞 👂 by Cara Holmes scored by moi music 🎶 selected alongside such visionary and brave films at this years Academy Award credited @sheffdocfest ❤️ Dream team LL @keeper_pictures 🙏 Let’s talk about this year’s International Competition! 🏆✨ The Academy Award™-credited International Competition honours films that best display strong artistic vision and courageous storytelling. There are eight films up for the Grand Jury Award for the International Competition and we have some real treats for you this year. Explore our International Competition and grab your tickets NOW at the link in our bio 👆🔗 ⭐️ The Apologist Through the ritual of saying sorry, a bold journey explores how apologies redefine history and what happens to us as witnesses to the act of atonement. ⭐️ The Archivist David "Doc" Rowe has spent decades preserving Britain's overlooked folk traditions. Now, with time running short, he faces a race to protect them. ⭐️ Colors of White Rock In Mongolia's Gobi Desert, Maikhuu is one of the country's only female truck drivers, hauling coal across treacherous roads to provide for her family. ⭐️ Disciples On the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi, two boys enter a revered Hindu school where lessons in ancient scripture blur into something more troubling. ⭐️ Filthy When an actress goes looking for the man who assaulted her, she turns her trauma into art and asks the question nobody wanted her to: why didn't you do anything? ⭐️ Lesbian Lines An intimate portrait of a network of underground telephone helplines established by a small community of Irish lesbians in 1979. ⭐️ MKO Moshood Abiola wins Nigeria's freest election, only for the military to jail him. When U.S. diplomats arrive to negotiate his release, he is served tea, and dies. ⭐️ Time Machine Maidan (Машина Часу Майдан) In this haunting and visually inventive documentary, a spectral voice drifts through time and memory to trace the Maidan revolution and the roots of resistance in Ukraine. Reposted from @sheffdocfest

Let’s talk about this year’s International Competition! 🏆✨ The Academy Award™-credited International Competition honours films that best display strong artistic vision and courageous storytelling. There are eight films up for the Grand Jury Award for the International Competition and we have some real treats for you this year. Explore our International Competition and grab your tickets NOW at the link in our bio 👆🔗 ⭐️ The Apologist Through the ritual of saying sorry, a bold journey explores how apologies redefine history and what happens to us as witnesses to the act of atonement. ⭐️ The Archivist David "Doc" Rowe has spent decades preserving Britain's overlooked folk traditions. Now, with time running short, he faces a race to protect them. ⭐️ Colors of White Rock In Mongolia's Gobi Desert, Maikhuu is one of the country's only female truck drivers, hauling coal across treacherous roads to provide for her family. ⭐️ Disciples On the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi, two boys enter a revered Hindu school where lessons in ancient scripture blur into something more troubling. ⭐️ Filthy When an actress goes looking for the man who assaulted her, she turns her trauma into art and asks the question nobody wanted her to: why didn't you do anything? ⭐️ Lesbian Lines An intimate portrait of a network of underground telephone helplines established by a small community of Irish lesbians in 1979. ⭐️ MKO Moshood Abiola wins Nigeria's freest election, only for the military to jail him. When U.S. diplomats arrive to negotiate his release, he is served tea, and dies. ⭐️ Time Machine Maidan (Машина Часу Майдан) In this haunting and visually inventive documentary, a spectral voice drifts through time and memory to trace the Maidan revolution and the roots of resistance in Ukraine.

In anticipation of the Irish premiere of Sweet Delusion by the amazing @prendevd at @fastnetfilmfestival next month, it's so lovely to see my work as composer in collaboration with David's vision included in this beautiful review @filmireland ☘️ Fastnet FF have always been a huge supporter of my work winning two previous awards for score and sound. 🎶 Congrats to cast and crew who made the film possible, our funders @kerrycoarts and @artscouncilireland and to @fastnetfilmfestival for selecting our film. /short-film-review-sweet-delusion/ #composer #sweetdelusion #fastnetff26

Elated the stunning GARDENING won Best Short Film @moinhocinefest ! 🌹💜🌺 I loved collaborating with @sarahbeeby Louisa Wood, SD Louis Morand and crew to sonically tell this story of trauma, justice and the healing power of plants. Congratulations to all the crew ✨🌱 ‘Gardening’ is a film by Sarah Beeby, written by @louisa_woodx with a story by Sarah Beeby and Louisa Wood. It is produced by @filmshipster , with support from the #NationalLottery and @britishfilminstitute CAST Leonora — @evannalynch 
Imani — @speechdebelle 
Quillan — Freddie Fox
Rita — @chetnapandyaofficial 
Detective Danforth — Simon Mc Burney Lady Inspiri’Paji - @ellenthomasuk ANIMATION Lead Animators — @fhotson @amandajespersenholm rebeccaperrone @sarasaruni_ Michael Schlingmann
Animation — @doodle_curls @the_drawing_slug @amberdusty DESIGN Additional Background Design — @_liamcobb_ 
Additional Background Painting — @niwakins STORY Storyboards — @sarahbeeby 
Clean-Up — @ashjiangwu 
Script Supervisor — @ludosmolski 
Editor — Emil Joseph SOUND & MUSIC Music by @diehexen 
Sound Design - @louismorandsound ‘Perfume Equinox’ and ‘Hotdog Factor’ By @skillbard Voice recording @fitzroviapost CASTING @gilbertandcovellcasting POST Colour Grade @vicki_matich_colourist @molinarepost Mix - Helen Miles @molinarepost CROWD VOICES Mark Burman, @susankyd , Josh Lacey, Dylan Mason, Tim Morand, Eve Norris PRODUCTION Production support from @abbabaddison 
 #nationallottery #bfi #independentanimation #composer

Incredibly thrilled LESBIAN LINES, an intimate portrait of a network of underground telephone helplines established by a brave community of pioneering Irish lesbians in 1979 — I had the privilege of scoring (with some additional music by @ruthbateofficial ) in collaboration with the incredible @cara_holmes_editor_director has been selected to World Premiere in the international competition at @sheffdocfest ❤️ Special thanks to Cara, producer @evn_hrn @keeperpictures & team for trusting me to score this stunning love letter to the LL collective. Scoring in collaboration with Cara took me on a real journey spanning all genres of the musical landscape to tell the stories of these brave & pioneering women, weaving collective memories into a moving and joyful new archive. I am deeply honoured to have sonically contributed to this story of community, connection and the transformative power of listening👂and cannot wait for you all to see / hear it! 📞 🎶 Funders: @screenireland RTÉ, NEW DAWN Collaborators: Stunning photography by DOP @aidangault ; Beautiful Editing by Colin Campbell; Score #diehexen ; Immersive Sound design by @jimdigbylatimer ; and great final mix by Brendan @raygunpost - with many more credits to follow. #composer #documentary #sheffielddocfest 📞

This witch is back to share some wisdom 🪄 ✨ More info... apply now! @dumbworldltd Deadline 11 May. Everything at dumbworld.co.uk @regionalculturalcentre @hardrainse @cmcireland @yarn_ballycastle @docsireland @artscouncilni @belfastcitycouncil #composer #carnyx #Dumbworld #OpenCall #ApplyNow CreativeCollaboration InterdisciplinaryArt EmergingArtists ArtistOpportunities SharedIsland