Film composers Craig Wedren and Mark Orton have been announced as performers at the annual Snowball, presented by BMI, on January 22, 2014 at the Sundance House in Park City, Utah. The event will also feature performances by Scottish singer/songwriter KT Tunstall and vocalist and folk songwriter Kris Orlowski. The Snowball will begin at 8 p.m. and is open to Festival Credential holders. Wedren who is best known as the frontman of Shudder to Think has composed the music for numerous films by David Wain, including Role Models, Wanderlust, Wet Hot American Summer and most recently the comedy They Came Together starring Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd, which is premiering at Sundance. His other scoring credits include Richard Linklater’s The School of Rock, HBO’s Hung and Showtimes’s United States of Tara. Orton who is a member of the acoustic chamber music group Tin Hat has recently scored Alexander Payne’s critically acclaimed Nebraska and has previously written the music for Miguel Arteta’s The Good Girl among other projects.
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Sundance 2012 Film Music Roundup (Part 1)
Over the next week, we will be looking at the music and composers of some of the most high profile titles premiering at the Sundance Film Festival that haven’t been covered yet on this page.
One of the best reviewed film so far at the festival is the documentary West of Memphis directed by Amy Berg who had been Academy Award-nominated for the 2006 movie Deliver Us from Evil. West of Memphis produced by Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh (The Lord of the Rings), Lorri Davis and Damien Echols centers on the wrongful conviction case of three Arkansas teenagers (known as the West Memphis Three) who were found guilty in 1994 of the ritual murder of three eight-year-old boy. The film’s music is written by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Road).