Paul Cantelon has scored the TV movie Firelight. The drama is directed by Darnell Martin (Cadillac Records) and stars Cuba Gooding Jr. as a counselor at a women’s correctional center who encourages the women to join an elite team that fights forest fires and assists civilian victims of natural disasters. Q’orianka Kilcher (The New World), DeWanda Wise (Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire) and Rebecca Rivera are co-starring. Ligiah Villalobos (Under the Same Moon) has written the screenplay and David A. Rosemont are producing the Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions film. Brent Shields, Alicia Keys and Mary Martin are executive producing. The drama marks the Cantelon’s first feature project for Hallmark and ABC. The composer is best known for his scores for theatrical features including The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Oliver Stone’s W. and The Other Boleyn Girl. Firelight will be premiering tonight on ABC. Check out a behind-the scenes video below and visit ABC’s film website to learn more about the movie.
Also coming up for the composer are two films that were shown at last year’s Toronto Film Festival, including Violet & Daisy starring Saoirse Ronan and Alexis Bledel, which is still awaiting a distribution deal. The other project is the documentary Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel about the fashion and beauty icon Vreeland, who launched Twiggy, advised Jackie O and coined some of fashion’s most eloquent proverbs. The film is directed by Immordino Vreeland, the wife of Vreeland’s grandson who also serves as a producer, as well as Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frederic Tcheng. Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up domestic rights and is planning a theatrical release later this year.
