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Since 1992, SIF309 Film & Music Productions has established itself internationally as one of the leading production companies in the realm of original film music score recording. The company together with its orchestra – The Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra - SIF309, founded by Victor Chouchkov, had been a successful partner in the realization of over 500 music productions from all over the world.
SIF309 is headed by Borislav Chouchkov, Elena Chouchkova and Viktor Chouchkov Jr. The office is situated in the center of Sofia, and the internal staff is divided in 3 areas – production service personnel for music productions, accounting and office management.
SIF309 Film & Music Productions provides a full range of logistical and organizational support for original music score recording. The biggest asset of the company is the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra – SIF309, which has proven its high professional level working with worldwide recognized companies and composers. The recordings are being executed in Studio 1 of the Bulgarian National Radio, unique in the Balkan region with its acoustics and technical equipment.
SIF 309 Film & Music Productions is recording music for radio and TV commercials. Through our wide range of contacts and long term experience in the field we can put our clients in touch with music composers, and respectively execute the music recording process.
Among our clients and partners are: A.I.M., SAXONIA MEDIA FILMPRODUKTION GmbH, CAM, GAUMONT, AIR-EDEL, POLYDOR, FONIT CETRA, UGC, GALATÉE FILMS, SUGAR MUSIC, YAMAHA MUSIC, WARNER MUSIC, EMERGENCY MUSIC, BOREALES, SAO PAULO IMAGEMDATA, EUROTEAM, FEBBRE, REFLEX, GRAND LARGE MUSIC, HEINZ MUSIC, WIZ MUSIC, EMI MUSIC - France, LA BANDE SON, FIREWORKS MUSIC, HELLO PRODUCTIONS, GENA BROWN, SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, UNIVERSAL MUSIC/POLYDOR, M6 INTERACTIONS, MADORO MUSIC, ALBANO CARISI PRODUCTIONS, TF1, MEDIATRADE S.p.A., RTI MUSIC and others.
The Bulagrian Symphony Orchestra – SIF309 under the management of SIF 309, has performed music of composers, such as: Luis Bakalov, Ennio Morricone, Pino Donaggio, Nicola Piovani, Patrick Doyle, Carlo Siliotto, Antonello Venditti, Ritz Ortolani, Stelvio Cipriani, Manuel De Sica, Carlo Crivelli, Krishna Levy, Jean-Marie Senia, Bruno Coulais, Jean-Claude Petit, Nigel Clarke, Michael Csanyi-Wills, Frédéric Porte, Didier Lockwood, Armand Amar, Cyril Morin, Hubert Bougis, Al Bano Carrisi, Savio Riccardi, Christophe Jacquelin, Andrea Guerra, Roger Bellon and others.
We have recorded music for the films of many world-famous film directors such as: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Francesco Rosi, Regis Wargnier, Damiano Damiani, Margarete von Trotta, Marco Belocchio, Michele Placido, Dario Argento, Josée Dayan, Anthony Waller, Frederic Schoendoerffer, James Huth, Christophe Baratier, Claude Nuridsany, Marie Perennou, Raoul Peck, Josee Dayan, Jonathan Hensleigh, Bernard Stora, Eric Valli, Francois Ozon, Pinchas Perry, Radu Mihaileanu, Sergei Bodrov, Volker Schlöndorff, Fatih Akin and many others.
Among the original music scores performed by The Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra -SIF309 you may find:
“EL ORFANATO” /a.k.a. THE ORPHANAGE/ composer Fernando Velazquez (2007 Barcelona Film Awards winner; nominated for numerous awards such as Goya Awards and Spanish Music Awards)
“INDIGENES” /a.k.a. DAYS OF GLORY/ composer Armand Amar (nominated for Oscar 2007 in the category Best Foreign Language Film of the Year. On the Cannes Film Festival 2006 the movie “Indigènes“won the François Chalais Award as well as the award for best actor. It has been nominated for Golden Palm on the same festival and for Independent Spirit Award Best Foreign Film on the Independent Spirit Awards 2007)
“LES CHORISTES” composer: Bruno Coulais (nominated for an Oscar Awards 2005 in the following categories: Best Music (song), Best Foreign Language Film. The movie has also been nominated for a Golden Globe Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category. It has won 2 César 2005 awards: for “Best music” and “Best sound” and has been nominated in 6 other categories)
“HOTEL RWANDA” composer: Andrea Guerra (Award for Best Composer at the European Film Awards. Nominated for an Oscar Awards 2005 in the following categories: Writing (Original Screenplay), Actor in a Leading Role, Actress in a Supporting Role. The movie has also been nominated for a Golden Globe Award 2005 in the following categories: Best Original Song, Best Motion Picture Drama, Best Actor Performance in a Motion Picture)
“JE SUIS UN ASSASSIN” composer: Krishna Levy (Award for best original movie score at Cannes 2004)
"EAST-WEST" composer: Patrick Doyle (Nominations for César 2000 for Original Music Score and for both Oscar 2000 and Golden Globes 2000 for Best Foreign Language Film)
"HYMALAYA" composer: Bruno Coulais (César 2000 Award for Original Music Score and Nomination for Oscar 2000 for Best Foreign Language Film)
"UP AT THE VILLA" composer: Pino Donaggio (directed by Philip Haas and starring Sean Penn)
“8 FEMMES” composer: Krishna Levy (Directed by François Ozon and starring Catherine Deneuve, Fanny Ardant, Isabelle Huppert)
“NAPOLÉON” composers: Richard Grégoire and Michel Cusson (Directed by Yves Simoneau and starring Christian Clavier, Isabella Rossellini, Gérard Depardieu, John Malkovich)
“TI ADORO” - LUCIANO PAVAROTTI album, 2003
Some of our most significant achievements in the pop-music area are: the realization the album “Antonello Nel Paese Delle Meraviglie - 97” by Antonello Venditti with the conductor Renato Serio, the shooting of two video clips of the singer, the participation in a very impressive concert in Rome’98, attended by 8000 spectators, as well as albums of Sacha Distel, Albano, “I AM”, “Hevia”, Cheb Kader, Veronica Antico etc. Most of the films were recorded in collaboration with Mr. Didier Lizé and Mr. Marco Streccioni - Sud Ovest Records.
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