Philip Sheppard

Tag: Greg Barker

  • Exile – the Deer Valley mix

    Here’s a new version of ‘Exile’ from ‘We are the Giant’ which has just opened at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The reception for the film has been amazing and one reviewer has called the movie ‘… a devastating marvel…’ which has given all of us involved a great lift.

    The view from where I’m based out here is so outrageously beautiful that I decided to annoy a number of passing skiers yesterday afternoon with my cello in the snow… If you were on the Jordanelle Blue Run in Deer Valley you have my apologies. The film above is the result…

  • Manhunt score at Sundance

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    This is my notebook for the score of the forthcoming documentary film ‘Manhunt’ directed by Greg Barker. The film premieres at Sundance 2013 this coming week and tells the story of the CIA’s hunt for Bin Laden. It’s a great counterpoint to Zero Dark Thirty as it shows the frustrations, errors and dangers faced by the largely female intelligence officers, aka ‘the Sisterhood’.
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    Here’s a track or two from the soundtrack I’ve written.

    c 2013 Philip Sheppard

  • Sergio at Telluride

    Sergio wins audience award at Telluride film festival!

    Greg Barker accepting the award
    Greg Barker accepting the award

    From the Telluride Daily Planet:

    The 2009 Mountainfilm Festival plopped its audience in front of gorgeous canyons and tremendous acts of bravery, audacious hoaxes and evil corporate maneuvering, boundless compassion and extraordinary individuals.

    In the end, it was one of these individuals — Sergio Vieira de Mello — who stole the hearts of the movie-goers.

    Greg Barker’s film, “Sergio” is a meticulously-crafted portrait of de Mello — the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights whose life was cut tragically short when a truck bomb exploded below his office in Baghdad. “Sergio” won the Audience Choice Award at this year’s festival.

    Watch out for online stream of some of my music from the film… coming soon!

  • Sergio Trailer

    Warning – contains graphic images and strong language.

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    This is the trailer for Sergio (directed by Greg Barker) which premiered at Sundance and has just featured at HotDocs festival. I wrote the score which is featured on this trailer – and it features the wonderful Ife Tolentino on guitar.

    N.B. Click the HQ button for hi-res version.

  • radiomovies roundup

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    Latest show news. As you can see there’s a beautiful poster for the forthcoming Sergio directed by Greg Barker – due to be shown on HBO in June. This recently won Karen Schmeer the editing award at Sundance.I hope to put a number of the tracks online soon as a free stream.

    Looking at the above I realise I’m lucky to work on projects where the PR material seems to be thought through…

    In-I, my project with Juliette Binoche, Anish Kapoor and Akram Khan is in Beijing this week, having transferred from Shanghai. You can hear the score here.

    It’s going to have a break before opening at BAM (Harvey Theatre), New York, for the latter part of September.

  • 'Sergio' at Sundance

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    I’ve recently completed work on the score for a new documentary by Greg Barker called ‘Sergio’. It’s based on the extraordinary biography of Sergio Vieira de Mello by Samantha Power called Chasing the Flame.

    It has just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The soundtrack features an orchestral score with the beautiful solo playing of Brazilian guitarist Ife Tolentino who made the score come alive for me.

    Chasing the flame website here

    The Gstaad Project here

    another review

    Extract from The Observer, Sunday 25 January 2009

    I’m glad to find a buzz around a film brought here by the BBC and HBO. This is Sergio, and it recounts the life and death of Sergio Vieira de Mello, heroic womaniser and daredevil James Bond/RFK of humanitarian politics, who was buried under the rubble caused by a car bomb, dying in Baghdad. I wanted for a change to see a film about someone admirable, and I can see people crying through the film. A Variety critic tells me that Sergio does catch something of a new mood, mournful but in quest of something to admire.