Grand-Prize Winner of TCM's 8th Annual Young Film Composers Competition Announced
July 26 2007 - 3:40PM
PR Newswire (US)
LOS ANGELES, July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Oscar(R)-winning composer Hans
Zimmer, whose numerous scores include The Lion King, The Da Vinci
Code and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, led a
blue-ribbon panel of judges in selecting James Schafer as the
grand-prize winner of Turner Classic Movies' (TCM) 8th Annual Young
Film Composers Competition last night, July 25, in Los Angeles. The
five finalists were announced earlier this year from more than 800
aspiring film composers who submitted entries from the United
States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France and Spain for the
competition this year. (Photo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070726/CLTH151 ) In the
running for the grand prize were Jaebon Hwang from New York City;
Jeremy Schrepple from Los Angeles; Garth Neustadter from Appleton,
Wisc.; James Schafer from Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.; and Edward
White from London, England. Each participant scored a 90-second
clip from the silent classic Beau Brummel (1924), starring John
Barrymore and Mary Astor, for the final round of judging. Schafer,
the grand-prize winner, received $15,000 and a chance to score a
feature-length film for premiere on TCM. Runners up also received
prizes, including Apple laptops and Logic Pro Software. Talent
competing in TCM's 8th Annual Young Film Composers Competition were
challenged to score a brief clip from Beau Brummel, matinee idol
Barrymore's portrayal of the arrogant 19th-century style mogul who
enjoyed life among England's upper class until he insulted his good
friend, the Prince of Wales. The competition, which ran from Jan.
1, 2007 - March 31, 2007, was opened this year for the first time
to participants from not only the United States, the United Kingdom
and Canada but also France and Spain. Turner Classic Movies,
currently seen in more than 75 million homes, is a 24-hour cable
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the largest film library in the world, the combined Time Warner and
Turner film libraries, from the '20s through the '90s,
commercial-free and without interruption. The network also offers
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the Emmy-winning Stardust: The Bette Davis Story, Brando and Steve
McQueen: The Essence of Cool. Please visit tcm.com for more
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basic cable industry.
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