Congratulations Geoff!

Kanowna's Composer, Geoffrey Russell has been nominated for a 2010 Screen Music Award, in the category of Best Music for a Short Film.  The national awards are conducted by the Australian Guild of Screen Composers and recognises outstanding achievement in music for film and television.   Geoff's beautiful musical score for Kanowna is wonderfully emotive and lyrical, which perfectly compliments and enhances the vision of Director, Chris Richards-Scully.


Geoff has also been nominated for Best Music for a documentary, for Wheels in Motion.  The awards will be presented in November.  


The Kanowna team would like to thank Geoff for his amazing work on the film and wish him the very best for the awards night.  Wish we could be there with you.

(L-R) Kanowna's Composer, Geoffrey Russell is congratulated by Producer, Michael Facey

Onya mate!


If you would like to hear a sample of music from the film, visit our website.  Just follow the link on the side menu.

2nd cue

Geoff and I spent much of today and this evening working on, discussing and coming up with ideas for the 2nd cue of the film.  Communicating electronically from across the country can be fraught with misunderstanding when files don't upload correctly and you can't get comms working as they should.

That said, the second cue is sound very nice and there is a lovely touch, which I won't reveal here.  I wonder how many people will pick it up, when they watch the film?

Bag is semi-packed, communications tested (partially working)... ready.

First music cue

Geoff sent through the first music cue which goes for all of 27 seconds, but in that time he has managed to do something incredibly emotional and haunting at the same time.

Sound spotting

Just finished a two hour music spotting session with Geoff, the films composer.  We went through the film scene-by-scene and discussed emotional beats, story points and structure.  I really enjoy the creative process and working with Geoff is always good.  Interestingly we are working over Skype, as he is in Sydney and I am in Perth.  So long as you are working off the same files, with timecode, it is really easy to communicate and get your ideas across.

Sound spotting session has be organised for Wednesday morning and I am really looking forward to that.  We're getting close!

Kanowna's Music

I had a long Skype music spotting session with Geoff today, we went through half the film and discussed dramatic moments, in-and-out points and styles for the musical score.  Exciting to begin this phase. 

Mathilda dropped in on the last part of the meeting to give her input, which was a laugh for both of us.

Kanowna begins post sound and music

I had a quick chat with our Composer, Geoff Russell today and I realised that we only have two weeks to get the music right, before we are scheduled to go into the mix!  That's putting the pressure on.  Geoff a fanastic composer and this will be the third film I have worked with him on.

The first was my film school film, Icarus, the next was another self funded short called Hearts and Minds, each time he has come up with amazing film scores.  He is an incredibly talented Composer, a great collaborator and friend.

I'm looking forward to working with him again and hopefully one day soon we'll get to work together on a feature film!