Film Score Fest 2020-2021

Theme: “Adapt”

Featured Instrument: Cajon

Submissions: 28

Best of Fest: “The Door” by filmmakers Foreign Fauna (Emory Allen and Alicia Reese) and composer Harriet Luck. The prize is a studio recording of the score at IPR and virtual business cards by Spare Change Productions.

Orchestra Award: Two scores were chosen by the orchestra members as their favorites: “The Athletic Dream” by Mitchell Dietz and “Lloyd Kennedy: Professional Sasquatch Photographer” by Theo Popov. They each received a $100 gift certificate courtesy of MusicNotes.com.

Photo by Mark Brown

Screening: Saturday, September 4 2021, 8pm at Mears Park in St. Paul

Program PDF

Featured Performers: composer and multi-instrumentalist Khary Jackson (“Zuri’s Tree”), soprano Nuriel Abdenur (“Down by the Water”), and composer/bass clarinetist/whistler Paul Fonfara (“Floaters”).

Livestreamed on YouTube:

  • Lobsterbelly – Jason Schumacher, Samantha Hogan
  • A Sunny Desperation – Michael Scanlan, Emily Tope, Nate Hance
  • Abstract Sphere – Eve Gutzman, Jason Hogan
  • The Arrival – Lara St. John, Gene Pritsker
  • the braid – Erica Ticknor, Grá Linnaea
  • Lloyd Kennedy Professional Sasquatch Photographer – Rodney Johnson, Theo Popov
  • The Athletic Dream – Ryan Gilmer, Mitchell Dietz
  • Visual Persistence – Kal Yelle, Emily Boyajian
  • Frogberg Variations – John Akre, Ian Cook
  • Resiliency Is Inherited – Sequoia Hauck, Tim Brandl
  • INTERMISSION
  • Zuri’s Tree – Adja Gildersleve, Khary Jackson
  • 122 Eyes – Garrett Tiedemann, Jonathan Posthuma
  • Things are different now – Joe Grigar, Asia Ward, Mike von der Nahmer
  • AI – Larry Wydra, Dan Wheeler
  • The Door – Alicia Allen, Emory Allen, Harriet Luck
  • Learning To Live With Ghosts – Erica Beebe, Andrew Tomten
  • Down by the Water – Chris Lange, Tori Sweeney
  • Floaters – Kari Jo Skogquist, Paul Fonfara

Thanks to everyone who supported our 2021 screening on Kickstarter! Special thanks to Gold Sponsor motion504 animation studio and Silver Sponsors Ann Thompson and Mike von der Nahmer.

B-Sides

We also had a virtual screening of the “B-Sides” – the films that didn’t quite make the cut for our orchestral screening. You can watch them on YouTube:

  • Cinch by the Inch – film by Aaron Rosenblum and Lela Pierce, music by Carl Swenson
  • Diamond Betty, Buck and Eddie – film by Richard Raver, music by Keith Johnson
  • Animation Adaptation – film by Alexander Kouhi, music by Justino Perez
  • Cyclical – film by Jes Reyes, music by Tess Nordstrom
  • Stranger in the Woods – film by Wendy Placko, music by Stephanie Henry
  • Adaptation: Drummond Island – film by Ron Emery, music by Mary Beth Huttlin
  • Concrete Sky – film by Illuminatè Steel, music by Octavia Romano
  • Change Starts with U.S. – film by Ryan J. Gilmer, music by Zak Rivers
  • Bitsie – film by Ilima Considine, music by Basil Considine
  • Safe @ Home – film by Ryan J. Gilmer, music by Carl Sorenson