Composer Kerry Muzzey on Scoring Intimate Doc The Seer

The upcoming documentary The Seer: A Conversation With Wendell Berry– directed by Laura Dunn with executive producers Terrence Malick and Robert Redford- tells the story of small generational farmers in Kentucky through the eyes of the poet, writer, activist and farmer Wendell Berry. We talk to the composer Kerry Muzzey about scoring the film and how he got over his initial fears.

You’ve said that you felt like the score for this documentary needed to be Americana,

The Sound of Fear: Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson on Scoring Sicario

Scoring Denis Villeneuve’s latest film Sicario, about the brutal battle against Mexico’s drug cartels, required quite a tonal shift for composer Jóhann Jóhannsson from his work on last year’s The Theory of Everything. He talks to The Credits about how he gravitates towards darker worlds and the challenge of scoring action sequences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XLQ1bkSLDo

Sicario is a very tense film. Creating that mood is obviously a big part of your job when you’re scoring.

Female Directors Shone at the Toronto International Film Festival

One of the surprises and highlights of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was the number of films about women and the number directed by women. Sure, most were small indies. But in an industry where only 1.9  percent of the 100 top-grossing fictional films distributed in the United States from 2007 to 2014 were directed by women, according to a report released in August by the University of Southern California, the news at TIFF was encouraging.