Peter Golub has recently scored the indie horror thriller Black Rock. The film is directed by Katie Aselton (The Freebie) and written by Mark Duplass (Cyrus, Jeff Who Lives at Home) who is also executive producing with his brother Jay Duplass. Aselton, Lake Bell and Kate Bosworth are starring as three friends who are going on a weekend getaway to a remote island in Maine and discover that they are not alone. Adele Romanski (The Myth of the American Sleepover) is producing the project. Black Rock is premiering this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, where it will be looking for distribution.
Golub whose best known film credits include Frozen River and The Great Debaters (co-scored with James Newton Howard) is also serving as the Sundance Film Music Program’s director. He will also be participating with Black Rock director Katie Aselton in the Music & Film: The Creative Process roundtable at this year’s festival on January 25. Other participants include composer Ryan Beveridge and director Aurora Guerrero (Mosquita y Mari); composer Alec Puro and director Jonathan Kasdan (The First Time); composer T. Griffin and director Marshall Lewy (California Solo); composer Michael Bacon (Slavery by Another Name); composer Miriam Cutler (Ethel); composer Cliff Martinez (Arbitrage); composer Andrew Hollander (Sleepwalk With Me); director Malik Bendjelloul (Searching for Sugar Man); composer Heather McIntosh and director Craig Zobel (Compliance) director and composer Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) and composer and Sundance Composers Lab advisor Blake Neely. To find out more about the panel, visit the official festival website.