Film Music Reporter

Matthew Herbert (The Beast Must Die, The Responder,The Cave,  Port Authority, Temple) has teamed up with seventeen female Chilean musicians, including Ana Tijoux, Camila Moreno & Javiera Parra to create the original composition for the upcoming musical drama The Wave (La Ola). The film is directed by Sebastián Lelio and stars Daniela López, Avril Aurora, Lola Bravo and Paulina Cortés. The movie is inspired by the wave of “feminist May” mass protests that swept Chile in the spring of 2018 and follows a music student who gets involved in the growing movement on her university campus and revisits her own experiences of mistreatment. Lelio also co-wrote the screenplay with Manuela Infante, Josefina Fernández and Paloma Salas. He is also producing the Fabula production with Juan de Dios Larraín & Pablo Larraín (Jackie, Spencer) and Rocío Jadue (The Eternal Memory, El Conde). Herbert has previously collaborated with Lelio on the director’s last four features, A Fantastic Woman, Disobedience, Gloria Bell and The Wonder. The Wave has recently finished production and is expected to premiere at a major film festival.