Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the Netflix documentary 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nainita Desai (For Sama, The Tower, The Reason I Jump, American Murder: The Family Next Door, Enslaved, Sophie: A Murder in West Cork, Enemy Within, Telling Lies). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and to check out audio samples. 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible is directed by Torquil Jones and follows fearless Nepali mountaineer Nimsdai Purja as he embarks on a seemingly impossible quest to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks in seven months. Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (Free Solo, The Rescue) are executive producing the Noah Media Group and Little Monster Films production.
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Soundtrack Album for ITV’s ‘The Tower’ Announced
Silva Screen Records has announced a soundtrack album for the ITV crime thriller The Tower. The album features the show’s original music composed by Nainita Desai (For Sama, The Reason I Jump, American Murder: The Family Next Door, Sophie: A Murder in West Cork, Enslaved, Enemy Within, Telling Lies). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, November 19 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The Tower is adapted by Patrick Harbinson based on former Homicide Team Met Police officer Kate London’s breakthrough first novel Post Mortem and stars Gemma Whelan, Tahirah Sharif, Jimmy Akingbola and Emmett J. Scanlan. The 3-parter follows Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins who is charged to investigate after a veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London.
Nainita Desai Scoring ITV’s ‘The Tower’
Nainita Desai (For Sama, The Reason I Jump, American Murder: The Family Next Door, Enslaved, Sophie: A Murder in West Cor, Enemy Within, Telling Lies) has recently been scoring the new ITV series The Tower. The show is adapted by Patrick Harbinson (Homeland, Fearless) based on Post Mortem, the first in Kate London’s Metropolitan series of novels, and stars Gemma Whelan, Tahirah Sharif, Jimmy Akingbola and Emmett J. Scanlan. The 3-part crime thriller follows Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins, a former Met Police Officer, who is charged to investigate after a veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and a rookie police officer on the roof, only for them to go missing.
Daniel Pemberton Named Film Composer of the Year at 2021 World Soundtrack Awards
Daniel Pemberton was named Film Composer of the Year at the 21st World Soundtrack Awards, tonight’s closing event of the 48th Ghent Film Festival, for his scores for Aaron Sorkins’ The Trial of the Chicago 7, Harry Bradbeer’s Enola Holmes and the documentary Rising Phoenix. He previously received his first World Soundtrack Award in the Discovery of the Year category back in 2014. Carlos Rafael Rivera was honored as TV Composer of the Year today for his score for the Netflix limited series The Queen’s Gambit (for which he recently received his second Emmy Award) and HBO’s Hacks.
Nainita Desai Scoring Netflix’s ‘Sophie: A Murder in West Cork’
Nainita Desai (For Sama, American Murder: The Family Next Door, Enslaved, Fierce Queens, Enemy Within, Telling Lies) has recently scored the upcoming Netflix docu-series Sophie: A Murder in West Cork. The 3-parter is directed by John Dower (My Scientology Movie, The Mystery of D.B. Cooper) and centers on the shocking murder of French film and TV producer Sophie Toscan Du Plantier who was killed while at her isolated holiday cottage in West Cork, Ireland, in 1996 and that set off an increasingly convoluted quest for justice that spans decades and cuts across national borders. Simon Chinn (Searching for Sugar Man, Man on Wire), Jonathan Chinn (Whitney, Tina, Untouchable) and Suzanne Lavery are producing the Lighbox production.
Weekly Film Music Roundup (January 8, 2021)
Opening in select theaters and virtual cinemas today is the documentary The Reason I Jump directed by Jerry Rothwell. The film’s original music is composed by Nainita Desai (For Sama, American Murder: The Family Next Door, Enslaved, Enemy Within, Telling Lies). Mercury Classics will release a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score on April 16. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details, to listen to a first track, which has been released as a digital single today, and to learn more about the Kino Lorber release.
Opening in select theaters today before premiering on Netflix on January 22 is the drama The White Tiger written and directed by Ramin Bahrani and starring Adarsh Gourav, Rajkummar Rao, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Adarsh Gourav, Mahesh Manjrekar and Vijay Maurya. Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, Boy Erased, The Outsider, The Gift, Enemy, Martha Marcy May Marlene) have composed the film’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the movie.
‘The Reason I Jump’ Soundtrack Album Details
Mercury Classics will release the official soundtrack album for the documentary The Reason I Jump. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nainita Desai (For Sama, American Murder: The Family Next Door, Enemy Within, Fierce Queens, Telling Lies). The soundtrack is set to be released digitally on April 16, 2021 and is now available for pre-order here. A first track is now available to stream/download (visit Amazon or Apple Music and also listen to Beauty Is In The Detail below). The Reason I Jump is directed by Jerry Rothwell and explores the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people around the world. The movie is based on the best-selling book book written by Naoki Higashida and follows a young Japanese boy as he gradually discovers what his autism means to him, how his perception of the world differs from others, and why he acts the way.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 27, 2020)
Premiering tonight is the Showtime mini-series The Comey Rule written and directed by Billy Ray and starring Jeff Daniels, Brendan Gleeson, Holly Hunter, Michael Kelly, Jennifer Ehle, Jonathan Banks, Scoot McNairy, Oona Chaplin, Steven Pasquale, Peter Coyote, Amy Seimetz and Kingsley Ben-Adir. The show’s original music is composed by Henry Jackman (Captain America: The Winter Soldier & Civil War, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, X-Men: First Class, Wreck-It-Ralph). Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the drama, which will air tonight and tomorrow on Showtime.
Premiering on Wednesday, September 30 is the Netflix documentary American Murder: The Family Next Door directed by Jenny Popplewell and executive produced by James Marsh. Nainita Desai (For Sama, Telling Lies, Enemy Within, Fierce Queens, Enslaved) has composed the film’s original music. Check out our previous news article for more information about the movie, which centers on the disappearance of Shanann Watts and her children, and which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.
Nainita Desai Scoring Netflix’s ‘American Murder: The Family Next Door’
Nainita Desai (For Sama, Enemy Within, Telling Lies, Fierce Queens, The Reason I Jump) has recently scored the new Netflix original documentary American Murder: The Family Next Door. The film is directed by Jenny Popplewell and examines the disappearance of Shanann Watts and her children, and the terrible events that followed. The movie is told entirely through archival footage that includes social media posts, law enforcement recordings, text messages and never-before-seen home videos.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 13, 2020)
Premiering in the U.S. tonight is the reboot of the classic detective series Van der Valk written by Chris Murray and starring Marc Warren, Maimie McCoy, Elliot Barnes-Worrell, Darrell D’Silva and Emma Fielding. The show’s original music is composed and conducted by Matthijs Kieboom (Wild, Bloody Marie). All3Media has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this year when the drama premiered in the UK. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the series, which is premiering stateside on PBS.
Premiering tomorrow, September 14, is the HBO limited series The Third Day created by Felix Barrett & Dennis Kelly, directed by Marc Munden and Philippa Lowthorpe and starring Jude Law, Naomie Harris, Katherine Waterston, Paddy Considine, Emily Watson, Nico Parker and Charlotte Gairdner-Mihell. Cristobal Tapia de Veer (Utopia, The Girl with All the Gifts, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency) and Dickon Hinchliffe (Winter’s Bone, Locke, Out of the Furnace) have composed the show’s original music. To learn more about the drama, which centers on a small island town and its denizens’ uncanny rituals, visit the official show website.