The Park City Film Music Festival

Index
A Brief Introduction to the Festival
About the Festival
Components of the Festival
Locate the Festival
How to Travel to the Festival if you're staying in Salt Lake City
Contact the Festival
Festival Staff
Credits
Festival Store

A Brief Introduction to the Festival

The Park City Film Music Festival is an independent film festival, presenting film music competition for both INDIE and studio-sponsored films, a performance showcase for composers with seminars for composers, musicians, songwriters and groups.

The Park City Film Music Festival is made possible, in part, with support from the Summit County RAP Tax and Transient Room Tax Funds and is a project of the Park City Chamber Music Society.

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About the Festival

The 2012 Park City Film Music Festival is pleased to announce it is now accepting submissions from filmmakers and film composers.

The ninth annual PARK CITY FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL (pcFMF) will be held in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, May 25 - June 3, 2012. This is the first film festival in the world singularly recognizing the contribution of composers and their music to film, and the first of such festivals in the Americas. Awards are given in the categories of Best Use of Music in Full-Length Feature Film, Best Use of Music in Documentary Film, and Best Use of Music in Short Film and, new this year, Best Performance/Experimental Music Film. The first major film festival to recognize film music as part of the awards lineup since 1985 is the Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent, which currently draws over 80,000 devotees.

Film music, whose broad appeal continues to gain prominence in the music marketplace, has stood for a long time recognized only at the very highest levels: the Academy awards, the Emmys, the Grammys, and a few others. The growing stature of film music is exemplified in the announcement in 2005 of the Pulitzer prizes qualifying film music for the first time after over 60 years.

The pcFMF burst on the scene with a landmark 33 films in 2004, 50 films in 2005, 102 films in 2006, 200 films in 2007, 210 films in 2008, and 200 films in 2009, and is the brainchild of Ms. Leslie Harlow who has been operating the Park City International Music Festival for over 25 years. A Juilliard graduate, she and her husband, festival director Russell Harlow, a member of the Utah Symphony, are both prominent classical artists.

Ms. Harlow is driven to propel the PARK CITY FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL to international prominence, and has received encouragement from the Utah Film Commission, original founder of the Utah/United States Film Festival (now called Sundance Film Festival). Leslie has already spoken with esteemed film composer, John Williams, who is very excited at the prospect of this new festival. As this festival grows in scope, we will be inviting John Williams and other prominent film composers to celebrate the art of film music through performance and master classes. For 2008, we are currently choosing the seminar that we will be offering.

The 2005 Park City Film Music Festival seminar was hosted by composer Mark Northam of the Film Music Institute (LA).

The 2006 Park City Film Music Festival seminars were hosted by world-renowned composer, orchestrator, and arranger Conrad Pope (Pavilion of Women, Munich, Memoirs of a Geisha, Star Wars Episodes I,II, III), Emmy award-winning composer Kurt Bestor (2002 Winter Olympics), award-winning film composer Vincent Gillioz, award-winning film composer Jeffrey Gold, sound designer and sound editor Jim LeBrecht of Berkeley Sound Artists, and Music Supervisor and writer for Film Music Magazine, Michael Rogers.

The 2007 Park City Film Music Festival seminars were hosted by world-renowned composer, orchestrator, and arranger Hummie Mann (Robin Hood: Men in Tights), award-winning film composer, film composer Dennis Dreith, film composer Vincent Gillioz, award-winning film composer Jeffrey Gold, film composer/guitarist Vince Lauria.

The 2008 Park City Film Music Festival seminars will be hosted by award-winning film composer Vincent Gillioz, award-winning film composer Jeffrey Gold, film composer/guitarist Vince Lauria.

Present and past sponsors of the festival include Summit County Recreation, Arts, and Parks Tax Fund, Summit County Transient Room Tax Fund, Park City Chamber of Commerce, Klipsch Audio Technologies, Mackie, Michael Wiese Productions, Performance Audio, Filmacre, Corpus Polymedia, indivisiblePR.com, Cambridge Films, Berkeley Sound Artists, Disc Makers, Film Music Institute, Film Music Magazine, Film Score Monthly, Park City Stock Photography, Westminster College, Utah Contemporary Theatre, Pure Volume, Knock on Wood Film Productions, Rico Brand, and the Utah Wind Power Campaign.

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Components of the Festival

The Park City Film Music Festival consists of five components:

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How to Travel to the Festival if you're staying in Salt Lake City

Please contact the Park City Chamber of Commerce for current Transporation Information: http://www.parkcityinfo.com

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Contact the Festival

Please contact the festival by email at lharlow@pcfmf.com or by calling 435-649-5309.

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The All-Volunteer Festival Staff

Festival Founder & Director: Leslie Harlow
Festival Team:
Jeffrey Gold, Paul A. Wood, Mario DeAngelis, Rhea Bouman, Annie Sundquist, Kelly Graham

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Festival Store and Collectable Logo Items - Purchase Online


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Festival Credits

Web Design:Arts Marketing Consultants

Public Relations: Arts Marketing Consultants

Marketing: Arts Marketing Consultants

Photography: Leslie Harlow

Site Score: Jeffrey Gold

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