The Ang Fang Quartet’s score for short film The Funk (2008, dir. Cris Jones) has been nominated for Best Music for a Short Film in the 2008 APRA-AGSC Screen Music Awards.
After premiering at the opening night of the St Kilda Film Festival in May this year, The Funk has already garnered a number of awards, and has been accepted into several international film festivals. In addition, director Cris Jones has a guernsey in this year’s IF Awards, being nominated for the EFilm IF Award for Rising Talent.
The Screen Music Awards will be held at the City Recital Hall in Sydney on Monday 3 November.
More information about the awards here: www.apra-amcos.com.au/
The full list of nominees are set out below.
Best Music for an Advertisement
Australian Rugby Union – Men of Gold
Mark Rivett and Haydn Walker
Publisher Song Zu Publishing Pty Ltd
Herringbone – Hands
Elliott Wheeler
Publisher Nylon Publishing Pty Ltd
LMFF – Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival – 2008
Robert Burke and Benjamin Grayson*
Publisher Mushroom Music Pty Ltd*
SBS Station ID – Six Billion Stories & Counting
Roger Mason and Bryony Marks
Publisher inSync Music Publishing
Best Music for a Documentary
Halal Mate – Episode 1 – Afifas Match
Michael Den Elzen
Last Trimate
Caitlin Yeo
Night
Cezary Skubiszewski
Publisher J Albert and Son Pty Ltd
Secrets of the Forbidden City
Brett Aplin
Publisher Universal Music Publishing MGB Australia Pty Ltd on behalf of Lion Television Limited
Best Music for a Short Film
Noir Drive
Geoffrey Russell
Shot Open
Rachel Gaudry
The Funk
Paul Gillett
The Ground Beneath
Jonathan Nix and Miles Nicholas
Best Soundtrack Album
East of Everything
Greg Walker
Publisher Mushroom Music Pty Ltd
Rogue
Francois Tetaz
Publisher Universal Music Publishing Pty Ltd on behalf of Weinstein Company Music
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
Publisher Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty Ltd on behalf of Warner-Barham Music LLC
The Black Balloon
Michael Yezerski
Publisher inSync Music Publishing
Best Original Song Composed for the Screen
Free Falling 2 – Night
Cezary Skubiszewski*, Jan Skubiszewski, Andy Baldwin, Clairanne Brown and Jules Pascoe
Publisher J Albert and Son Pty Ltd*
It’s a Jungle Out There – Underbelly
Burkhard Dallwitz
The Greatest Act in History – The Black Balloon
Michael Yezerski
Publisher inSync Music Publishing
When We Get There – The Black Balloon
Josh Pyke* and Michael Yezerski^
Publisher Ivy League Music/Mushroom Music Pty Ltd* and inSync Music Publishing^
Best Music for Children’s Television
Animalia: "Butterfly Winter"
Christopher Elves
Publisher Fintage Publishing and Collection Australia on behalf of Animalia Productions Pty Ltd
Dogstar – Episode 24
Yuri Worontschak
Publisher Mushroom Music Pty Ltd
Gumnutz! A Juicy Tale
Clive Harrison
Pirate Islands the Lost Treasure of Fiji
Art Phillips
Best Television Theme
Elders, David Chapman
Underbelly, Burkhard Dallwitz
Summer Heights High, Chris Lilley
Publisher Princess Publishing and Distribution Pty Ltd administered by Mushroom Music Pty Ltd
The Gruen Transfer, David Chapman
Best Music for a Television Series or Serial
City Homicide – Episode 14
Richard Pleasance
Publisher Mushroom Music Pty Ltd
Summer Heights High – Episode 8
Jason Catherine, Chris Lilley and Bryony Marks
Publisher Princess Publishing and Distribution Pty Ltd administered by Mushroom Music Pty Ltd
Underbelly – Episode 5
Burkhard Dallwitz
Who Do You Think You Are? – Episode 2
Ash Gibson Greig
Best Music for Mini-Series or Telemovie
East West 101 – Episode 1
Guy Gross
Publisher Mushroom Music Pty Ltd
Emerald Falls
Richard Pleasance
Publisher Mushroom Music Pty Ltd
Indonesia a Reporter’s Journey – Episode 1 ‘A difficult engagement’
Scott Saunders
Best Feature Film Score
Children of the Silk Road
David Hirschfelder
Rogue
Francois Tetaz
Publisher Universal Music Publishing Pty Ltd on behalf of Weinstein Company Music
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
Publisher Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty Ltd on behalf of Warner-Barham Music LLC
Unfinished Sky
Antony Partos
Most Performed Composer – Australia
* Les Gock
* Jay Stewart
* Neil Sutherland
* Dinesh Wickremeratne
Most Performed Composer – Overseas
* Alastair Ford
* Guy Gross
* Chris Pettifer
* Neil Sutherland