This was a fun project. The Berlinale Talent Campus is an event set up by the Berlin Film Festival to give a selected few hundered people a chance to meet other people working in the film industry. Some of you will remember I did a talk there last year with Mike Snow.

Part of the campus is to give 3 up-and-coming composers access to a full orchestra, which I gather costs a bomb. They had usually used sponsored video from Volkswagen but this year wanted something else – so they used a cut down version of Please Say Something. The mentor was Alexandre Desplat, who scored a slew of films like Benjamin’s Buttons, Fantastic Fox and The Gost writer. I very much to a back seat to the proceedings – but it was really amazing hearing a 60 piece orchestra over my no budget animation.

Here is a badly recorded clip of the winning score . I guess I will put the properly mixed scores on the next DVD, they are really great.

Here are some pictures from the jury discussion.

Discussion with composers with me, Alexander Komlew, some other guy and Camilo Sanabria. Moderated by Milena Fessman.

The winner – Camilo Sanabria from Colombia. More details of the event here.