Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurrians are composing the music for the upcoming documentary Kailash. The film is directed by Derek Doneen and tells the story of how Kailash Satyarthi built a global movement to rescue children from slavery. Davis Guggenheim (Waiting for ‘Superman’, An Inconvenient Truth, He Named Me Malala) and Sarah Anthony (The Defiant Ones) are producing the project. Kailash will premiere next month at the Sundance Film Festival. The composers are also scoring the documentary XY Chelsea directed by Tim Travers Hawkins about Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. Army intelligence analyst who was sentenced to serve 35 years at an all-men’s military prison for leaking information about the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thomas Benski, Julia Nottingham and Lucas Ochoa serve as the project’s producers. The movie is expected to premiere in 2018.
As previously reported, Bensi & Jurriaans also have the crime thriller A Vigilante starring Olivia Wilde, Matthew Ross’ Siberia starring Keanu Reeves, and the second season of Netflix’s Ozark coming up.
