Rachel Portman and Lorne Balfe have composed the score for the documentary Girl Rising. The film is directed by Richard Robbins who previously helmed the Academy Award-nominated doc Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience. The movie tells the stories of several girls from around the globe who fought for their chance to go to school in spite of extreme poverty and natural disasters and features voice performances by Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Kerry Washington, Cate Blanchett, Selena Gomez, Salma Hayek, Alicia Keys, Chloe Moretz, Liam Neeson, Priyanka Chopra and Freida Pinto. The project marks the first documentary acquired by CNN Films and is executive produced by Tom Yellin and Holly Gordon of the Documentary Group and Paul G. Allen (Hard Candy, Titus) of Vulcan Productions.
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Richard Robbins (1940-2012)
Richard Robbins has passed away at age 71 on Nov. 7 of Parkinson’s disease at his home in Rhinebeck, N.Y. The composer who is best known for scoring most Merchant-Ivory films was born on Dec. 4, 1940, in South Weymouth, Mass.. He received two Academy Award nominations in 1993 and 1994 for Howard’s End and The Remains of the Day starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. He also was honored with a BAFTA for 1985’s A Room with a View starring Maggie Smith and Helena Bonham Carter. His other film credits for director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant include 1998’s A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries, 2003’s Le Divorce starring Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts and his last score in 2005 for The White Countess starring Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave.