Elena Anaya wins best actress

Elena Anaya has just won the best actress award for Hierro in Sitges International Film Festival!!! Big congrats to Elena!!! Here are some more photos from the film and a possible poster:

Cerca de tus ojos in Valladolid's Seminci

Human rights documentary "Cerca de tus ojos" directed by Elías Querejeta will have its premiere in 2009 Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci). After producing many notable films, this is Elías' first film as director. We finished recording guitars and mixing the music last week. Thanks to the Crespos, Ara and Dragos!! I'll see you in Valladolid!!

Hierro in Sitges

Hierro premiered last friday in Sitges 42nd Fantastic Film International Festival. Starring Elena Anaya and directed by newcomer Gabe Ibáñez. Those who didn't see it in Sitges' Festival will have to wait for the commercial release in february 2010. And to make that wait a little shorter, here's the trailer:

Imago Mortis soundtrack

It's finally here!! MovieScoreMedia has just published the soundtrack to horror movie Imago Mortis. Here you'll find more info and you'll be able to hear some of the cd's tracks and this is a link to the itunes page.
The music was recorded in Sofia by the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra and chorus conducted by Dejan Paulov. Orchestrations by Claudio Ianni. Music recorded and mixed by José Vinader. Thanks so much to all of them for such a wonderful job!! And thanks also to Queti Pazos, Irene Vinader and Iordan Stoichkov.

Imago Mortis spanish trailer

Imago will premiere in Spain on July 24th. I am also very excited to tell you that there's going to be a release of the soundtrack by MoviescoreMedia on June 30th. More info soon...

Hierro in Cannes

This is a frame from thriller Hierro which premiered in Cannes last monday in a special screening during the Critics' Week. Directed by Gabe Ibáñez and produced by Madrugada Films and Telecinco.
I finished the soundtrack about three weeks ago. We recorded with the Kiev Philharmonic and chorus. You can check out some photos of the studio below. Thanks to everyone who has been involved in the making of this soundtrack and specially thanks to Álex Martínez, Claudio Ianni, Raúl Quílez and José Luis Crespo. Thank you guys!!

The Anarchist's wife soundtrack

I am very happy to announce that Colosseum Records has just released the soundtrack to the historic drama "The Anarchist's wife". This is a link to Colosseum's page. And you can also find the soundtrack in itunes here.

The Anarchist's wife opens today in Spain

It's here!! The movie directed by Marie Noëlle and Peter Sehr premieres today in Spain. It's been almost a year since we finished working for this coproduction between Germany France and Spain. The cast includes Juan Diego Botto as Justo Calderón, María Valverde as Manuela and Ivana Baquero as their daughter Paloma. Hope you all go to see it. For a trailer look down below and for more info go here.

3 premieres on the same day

This morning I realized one curious thing. The three films to which I compose music last year have opened the very same day.
On the one hand, "Carmo hit the road" and "The anarchist's wife" were selected for Sundance Film Festival, and both films premiered last friday 16th. Each one on its own category.
And on the other hand, the last film I made, the italian-spanish coproduction "Imago Mortis" opened in Italy last friday too!!

When I compose the soundtrack to a film, one of the main things I want to see after the whole process is finished is the movie in the cinemas. The percentage of spanish films that are fisnished but do not make it to the theaters is really worrying.
That is why, to have 3 films premiere the very same day is quite amazing to me...

Anyway, to celebrate this I leave you with two more cues, "the thanatoscope" from Imago Mortis:



if you don't see the mp3 player, click here.

and "furtivos" from Carmo hit the road, didgeridoo included:



if you don't see the mp3 player, click here.

Happy New 2009!!!

I wanted to wish you all a happy new year and I think this video I am posting is a good way of doing just that. Kudos to Matt Harding!!!!

Imago Mortis, poster and trailer

This is the brand new poster for thriller Imago Mortis! The film will open in Italy this coming January. The spanish release will have to wait till march or april, but you can take a peek at the italian trailer I am posting below.

Sundance: Carmo and The Anarchist's wife

We're going to Sundance with two films!!
Carmo will compete in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition in Sundance's 25th Film Festival!! It is on of this year's 16 films selected from a record 1,012 submissions!!

And a similar thing has happened with "The Anarchist's wife" which has been selected for the festival's Spectrum section.

Congrats to everyone!!

If you want more info on any of these two movies, check out past entries.

Imago Mortis, soundtrack finished!!

Hello everyone!!!
About a month ago we finished mixing the music to the thriller/horror "Imago Mortis". The film is produced by Pixstar (Italy) and Telecinco (Spain) and it's directed by Stefano Bessoni (check his blog for more info and pictures from the movie). We've recorded the music with the Bulgarian Symphonic Orchestra and Choir in Sofia. Claudio Ianni took care of the orchestrations and Jose Vinader of the mixing. Here are a couple of pictures from the rehearsals and the recordings:










and here you can take a listen to a couple of cues, this fisrt one appears at the end of the movie and it contains some of the characters leitmotifs:



if you don't see an mp3 player, click here.

and this other cue is the love theme between Bruno and Ariana (Alberto Amarilla and Oona Chaplin):



if you don't see the mp3 player, click here.

Anarchist's Wife Trailer

And yet another trailer, have fun!

The Anarchist's wife in IMDB.

Carmo trailer

Here it is! The brand new trailer for Carmo!! For more info on the movie, see below or go here.