The music of Beasts lives on thanks to our friends at Celebrate Brooklyn! They’ve invited co-composers Benh Zeitlin, Dan Romer and the Wordless Music Orchestra to perform the Beasts score LIVE against a music-less edit of the film. It’s all happening this summer, August, 8th at the Prospect Park Bandshell and is free to all. We’re hoping…
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The Creators Project on Beasts
The Creators Project produced a series of in depth videos on Beasts of the Southern Wild including featurettes on the Aurochs, cinematography and soundtrack. While you can find them listed throughout our blog, we thought it would be nice to view them all on one page/post. Enjoy! MAKING OF BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD PART I…
Live Performance of ‘The Bathtub’ at LAFCA Awards
This past weekend, Beasts received two awards at the Los Angeles Film Critics Associations annual awards ceremony. Our favorite baker, Dwight Henry, was recognized as Best Supporting Actor of the year, while Benh Zeitlin and Dan Romer received the Best Music/Score honor. To celebrate, LAFCA, invited Benh, Dan and the New Orleans based, Lost Bayou Ramblers, to…
Scoring Beasts of the Southern Wild
The Creators Project recently sat down with co-composers Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin to talk about their process of collaboration on the Beasts of the Southern Wild soundtrack. Behn credits their complementary skill sets as the reason why they were able to work so fluidly with one another. The musical pair first collaborated on the short film,…
‘Once There Was A Hushpuppy’ Live
At a special screening of Beasts of the Southern Wild last month at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), co-composers Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin performed a piece from the BOTSW soundtrack live for the first time. Lucky for us, it was captured on camera for all to enjoy. This moving performance captures the…
Beasts on Vinyl!
The Beasts of the Southern Wild soundtrack has struck a chord (pun intended!) with so many of you. Whether the music brings you back to the film or resonates with you on a personal level, your response to the music has been overwhelming. A co-collaboration between long time friends, Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin, and featuring…
Twitter Q&A w/ Dan Romer
Last night’s live Twitter Q&A with Dan Romer went totally above and beyond our wildest expectations. Dan is a Twitter tour de force and thank you all the participants for asking such fun questions. In case you missed it, we put together some highlights from the conversation below.
