Credits
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Feature Film
AUSTRALIA (Bazmark / 20th Century Fox)
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Composer: Additional Music (co-credit with Felix Meagher & Baz Luhrmann)
Co-writer / arranger / singer: “By The Boab Tree”
Co-writer / arranger / singer: “Waltzing Matilda”
Orchestral arranger: “The Drover’s Ballad”
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Baz Luhrmann (dir.)
Year of Production: 2008
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An epic and romantic action adventure set in a country on the explosive brink of World War II. Lady Sarah Ashley, an English aristocrat, travels to the Land of Oz where she meets a local drover and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. Together they embark upon a transformative journey across hundreds of miles of the world’s most beautiful yet unforgiving terrain, only to then face the bombing of the city of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbor.
NOMINATED FOR AFI AWARD FOR BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE
NOMINATED FOR 2 APRA / AGSC SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS –
BEST ORIGINAL SONG (“BY THE BOAB TREE”), CONTRIBUTION TO BEST SOUNDTRACK ALBUM
SHORTLISTED FOR 81ST ACADEMY AWARDS FOR BEST ORIGINAL SONG (“BY THE BOAB TREE”)
NOMINATED FOR GOLDEN SATELLITE AWARD FOR BEST ORIGINAL SONG (“BY THE BOAB TREE”)
“AUSTRALIA” NOMINATED FOR GOLDEN SATELLITE FOR BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
“AUSTRALIA” NOMINATED FOR FCCA AWARD FOR BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
“AUSTRALIA” NOMINATED FOR APRA-AGSC SCREEN MUSIC AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE FILM SCORE
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THE CLINIC (Great Southern Land)
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Composer (co-credit with Jason Fernandez & Kirke Godfrey)
Featured Vocalist
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While traveling across country with her fiance, Beth wakes along in an isolated clinic to a mother’s worst nightmare. Her child has been abducted. Trapped and facing an unknown enemy, Beth struggles to piece together the clinic’s deadly secret. Just how far will a mother go to save her child?
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James Rabbitts (dir.)
Year of Production: 2009
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Short Film
BLEEDERS (A.F.T.R.S.)
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Composer
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Finn harbours secret dreams of a boxing career, but he is frozen by his guilt over the pain he causes outside of the ring as standover man for a shady property developer. When Finn is tasked with forcing Sonny to give up his shop, he finds an unlikely ally who will help him come to terms with his own violent nature, and to take a stand for what he believes in, regardless of the cost.
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Leigh Richards (dir.)
Year of Production: 2007
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CLOSE DISTANCE(A.F.T.R.S.)
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Composer
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In an attack motivated by their religious differences, Jakob, a Jewish boy, is savagely beaten by a group of Muslim boys after soccer practise. When help from the local police is not forthcoming, his father Isaac goes in search of revenge, but when he finally confronts his nemesis he experiences the sobering realisation that perhaps they are not so different after all.
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Richard Vilensky (dir.)
Year of Production: 2007
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Documentary
UNDRESSING VANESSA (A.F.T.R.S.)
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Composer (co-credit with Maja Petrovna)
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Undressing Vanessa documents the unlikely journey of a suburban Aussie boy who gave birth to Australia’s most political drag personality, ‘Vanessa Wagner’. For more than two decades, Vanessa has been frocking up, having a laugh and advocating for human rights, but when Tobin receives devastating news we begin to understand the struggle and the strength beneath the surface of this larger-than-life character.
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Matthew Pond (dir.)
Year of Production: 2007
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POLYPEOPLE (A.F.T.R.S.)
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Composer
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Life in a polyamourous relationship is often misunderstood and unexplored territory in conventional society. PolyPeople takes us inside the lives of a polyamorous family to discover the secrets within.
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Muffy Potter (dir.)
Year of Production: 2007
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Television
LOVE MY WAY – Series 2 (Southern Star)
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Music Editor
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Love My Way explores the web of friendship, love, hate, truth, lies, jealousy and anger woven between five 30-somethings living in urban Sydney. It deals with the randomness of life and the bloody mindedness needed to carve out a place in the world. These people are family by blood and family by proxy – a web of relationships which are pulled and strained by the strongest desires and contradictions of the human heart.
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Year of Production: 2006
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Theatre
AS YOU LIKE IT (The Bell Shakespeare Company)
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Composer’s Assistant
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“As You Like It” is a jolly, pastoral romp filled with amusing characters in unusual situations. Falling in love at first sight is always a cue for some good laughs, especially when false identities and genders are involved!
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John Bell (dir.)
Year of Production: 2008
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V-DAY 2008
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Composer (incidental music, onstage pianist), Guest Artist
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V-Day is a worldwide performance of Eve Ensler’s play ‘The Vagina Monologues’ to raise money for women who are victims of violence, and in 2008 Angela shared the stage with some of Australia’s most-loved female personalities, including Julia Zemiro, Amanda Keller, Fenella Kernebone, Noni Hazelhurst & Jacqui Weaver, to support this cause.
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Kerreen Ely-Harper (dir.)
Year of Production: 2008
Animation
THE LAST PHOTO (Short film – A.F.T.R.S)
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Composer
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When Anoushka’s father goes away to fight in a faraway war, he gives her the gift of his treasured antique camera. Every day Anoushka takes beautiful pictures and eagerly awaits his return, but when the train pulls out from the station for the last time she realizes that she may never see him again. Now she must make the dangerous journey over the mountains to find her father and bring him home.
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Lissa Pascale-Brown (dir.)
Year of Production: 2007
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Childrens’
CAMP ORANGE – Series 2 (TV Series – Nickelodeon / Total Perception)
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Composer
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Camp Orange Slimey Hollow is the second in the Camp Orange series. 8 kids from around Australia were taken to Slimey Hollow, a ghost town on the outskirts of somewhere, to compete in a series of challenges throughout the week.
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Year of Production: 2006
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GARDENING FOR KIDS WITH MADI (TV Series – Nickelodeon / Total Perception)
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Theme Composer
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This 20 X 5 minute series aired on both the Nick Jnr and Nickelodeon Channels. It is hosted by six year old greenthumb Madi, who shows the pre-school market how to garden. From herbs to vegetables to orchids to a rock garden for a Blue Tongue lizard, Madi demonstrates how great, and easy it is to get off your backside and into your backyard.
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Year of Production: 2006
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KANGAROO CREEK GANG (TV Series – Southern Star Animation)
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Composer’s Assistant
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A group of animal friends, the Kangaroo Creek Gang, live happily together in the Australian bush. Their only complaint is the constant rivalry between the Gang and a group of feral cats who live in the dump nearby!
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Year of Production: 2004-5
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