Get ready to learn everything you wanted to know about music for film in one evening. We’re pleased to welcome Andrew Gross and Gil Talmi from Konsonant Music for a detailed seminar on completing the soundtrack for your film, from both a creative and business perspective.

Topics covered will include: Temp Music – how to create a successful temp score for your rough cut (without getting married to it); Music Rights 101 – how to effectively license music for your film; Hiring a Composer – what to look for and how to ask the right questions before you make a deal; and the Director-Composer Relationship – how to communicate with a composer when you don’t have a musical background, and other strategies that can lead to a successful collaboration.

About the speakers

Andrew Gross is an Emmy and Guild of Music Supervisors Award-nominated music supervisor. Recent music supervision credits include I Think You Should Leave (three seasons, Netflix); The Vow: Part II (HBO), Ascension (Academy Award-nominated feature doc for Paramount+) and Sugarcane (Nat Geo and 2024 Sundance Award Winner). Currently, Andrew is working on It’s What’s Inside (Netflix, premiered at Sundance 2024) and a doc series on Burning Man, directed by Jehane Noujaim and Vikram Gandhi.

Andrew serves on the Board of Directors of the Production Music Association and is a founding partner at Konsonant Music and Bulletproof Bear. He lives in Topanga, CA with his wife and their cats and goats.
 
Gil Talmi is an EMMY-nominated film composer, sonic activist and recording artist with a passion for socially conscious films.

Some of Gil’s recent work includes original music for Harry & Meghan (Netflix/Story Syndicate), Breaking The News (Chicken and Egg Pictures), Silent Beauty (PBS Independent Lens), Mama Bears (PBS Independent Lens), Battleground (Safe Space Pictures), Lead Me Home (Netflix/Actual Films), Jacinta (Hulu/Endeavor Pictures), White Noise (The Atlantic), ALL IN: The Fight For Democracy (Amazon Studios/Story Syndicate), The Great Hack (Netflix/A Noujaim Films-Othrs Production) and Chavela (Aubin Pictures).

Gil’s score for Chavela was nominated for Best Original Film Score by the Music & Sound Awards and his music for Tales Of The Waria (PBS Global Voices) won Best Documentary Score.

Talmi’s 1700 square-foot scoring facility with inspiring views of Manhattan is located inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The studio’s unique location, ambiance, and state of the art equipment work together to complement the innovative, high quality scores that Talmi creates for studio and indie projects alike.
 
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