SIF309 Film & Music Productions

The Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra SIF309 recorded the original music score of an Oscar winner

Argentine drama “El Secreto de Sus Ojos” aka “The Secret in Their Eyes”

Best foreign film of the year and Oscar winner “The Secret in Their Eyes” of the 82 annual ceremony became an overnight sensation. Original music score was recorded in Sofia with SIF 309 Film Music Orchestra in the early spring of 2009. The talented young composer Federico Jusid gained a huge success and recognition with this project, both audience and critically acclaimed. He has composed the original sound tracks for more than 25 featured films.

A riveting Argentine thriller holding the viewer in thrall for most of its two-hour running time, it has the kind of universal appeal that unites critics and audiences and can look forward to worldwide sales that could jump beyond the usual Spanish-language markets.

IGOR

In June 2008, The Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra – SIF 309 recorded the music for the 3D animated movie “IGOR”. The original soundtrack was composed by Patrick Doyle (author of the music of famous productions, such as “Est – Ovest”, “Eragon”, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”).

The film is written by Chris McKenna and directed by Anthony Leonidis.

The voices of the happy monsters – the characters of IGOR belong to famous actors, such as John Kusak, Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Coolidge and others.

The world premiere of the movie will be on 19.09.2008.

SIF 309 is happy to announce its new service – recording through internet.

Now you don’t even have to leave your city. You can sit at home and monitor the recording sessions remotely with the great Pro Tools plug-in Source Connect Live. All you need is just a computer and internet. At the begging of the session we will give you a secure URL streaming address to listen in real time the recording process.

You will be able easily to communicate through skype or iChat with the conductor and the sound engineer.

Learn more about Source Connect Live on http://www.source-elements.com/Live/

Mia et le Migou

Mia et le Migou is a 90 minutes animation produced by Folimage and recorded in February 2008 by The Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra – SIF309.

A three series reportage about the recording of the music for “Mia et le Migou" was aired on France 3.

June 2007

The Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra – SIF309 have been invited for a concert in Venice in one of the most beautiful and famous halls in the world – Teatro La Fenice.

The orchestra was conducted by Maurizio Abeni.

The program of the concert included one of the most popular film soundtracks of Italian composers.

Before the concert the music was recorded with The Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra – SIF309 in Sofia.

The composer Fernando Velazquez recorded his music score for the new movie of Julianne Moore Savage Grace.

This week, in Studio 1 of the Bulgarian National Radio, SIF309 Film and Music Production together with the Bulgarian Symphony orchestra recorded the music for the new album of Italian celebrity Al Bano.

The album, which is about to be released in Italy in 3 months, will be called " Ti parlo del sud” and is characterized as pop-genre.

The conductor during the recording and the author of some of the tracks is Alterisio Paoletti, others have been written by Al Bano’s older son Yari, as well as by Al Bano himself.

This is not the first time the Italian star visits us. In 2002 we recorded the music of another album of his - “Carrisi canta Caruso".

Deo

One of the most favourite Bulgarian TV hosts, he’s already distinguished with his specific style of speaking. Now you have to listen to his way of singing. The debut album of the famous Bulgarian TV host Deo, titled “This is me”/ “Tova sum az”/ is already out on the market. In December “The Chouchkov Brothers” produced the album of the TV celebrity.

The first official song of Deo is his common song with the pop band D_2 called “Two traces” (2002). A remix of the song is included in the present album.

The first single from the album was “You’d better not” („Po-dobre nedej”). It was released in July 2004 and momentarily turned into a summer hit. Viktor Chouchkov Jr. is the video’s director.

D_2 are co-authors of another hit from the album – “This is us” („Tova sme nie). It was chosen for a second single and its video, directed by the famous director Valeri Milev, made its debut on the national TV air in the beginning of December 2004.

The video of “This is us” includes scenes from “El’s revolt” (Buntyt na El). That is the newest movie by director Kiran Kolarov, in which Deo plays the chief role.

“This is me” includes 11 songs. The CD version includes a 12th bonus track, which is a remix of one of the songs done by French composer Dominique Rossi. The greatest part of the music and its arrangement is written by Iavor Russinov from the Bulgaro project. One of the songs was composed by the guitarist and main author of the music of the prominent band D_2 Mitko Kurnev. Two other songs were written for Deo by the front man of the Bulgarian hip-hop band “Absurd” (Upsyrt) – Itzo Hazarta. The lyrics are written by Deo, Teo Chepilov, Iavor Russinov. The back-vocals of three of the songs are sung by Lora Karadjova.

Three of the remixes in the album are done by Iavor Russinov, the fourth one is made by the French composer Dominique Rossi. The album’s style is a mixture of the styles Deo himself adores – pop, hip-hop, chill out, electronic music, rock.

The album was officially presented on a concert in Hall 3 of the National Palace of Culture on the 28th December 2004. Special quest-appearance was made by the bands D_2 and Upsyrt.

“Les choristes” has been nominated for an Oscar Award 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.

The music was written by French composer Bruno Coulais. Christophe Barratier, is the movie’s director.

Premiers - October 5 & 6 on the Hallmark Channel

Starring:William Hurt, Donald Sutherland, Julie Delpy,Directed by Kevin Connor

Produced by Larry Levinson, Robert Halmi Jr.

"Hotel Rwanda," tells the true story of a hotel manager who saves hundreds of lives during the Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. The movie gained the audience’s approval due to the representation of real life horrors of genocide and civil conflict. The award is considered a precondition for a future Academy Award nomination.

The movie produced by the producer of “Born on the Fourth of July”, “Ali”, “JFK”, etc. features Don Cheadle and Nick Nolte. Its original movie score was composed by Andrea Guerra and recorded in Studio 1 of The Bulgarian National Radio, Sofia.

The action crime movie produced by Artisan Entertainment, features Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Laura Harring, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Samantha Mathis, etc. and is to be released on April 16th 2004.

“The Punisher" is a movie about ex-Special Forces agent Frank Castle. Castle deserts his job and starts up a normal desk job. Suddenly, his life changes completely when his family is murdered. Determined to seek revenge, he hero starts a battle against the evil.

The movie is directed by Thomas Vincent, who also directed movies like Karnaval , Divorce sans merci (TV), Demi père (TV), Lady Bag, etc.

It tells the story of two men who meet on a train to Marseilles. Brice (Bernard Giraudeau) and Ben (François Cluzet) are crime authors. Since Brice cannot write due to his pending divorce, they decide he publishes Ben's next manuscript under his own name and they will then divide the profit. The condition is that Ben kills Brice's wife, who otherwise will receive the money according to the divorce settlement.

The film is Christophe Barratier’s first full movie as a director. Before that, Barratier has been a “producteur délégué” of the movies “Microcosmos, the people of grass”, “Himalaya, the childhood of a boss” and “The migrant People”.

“Les choristes” features Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Jacques Perrin, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Kad Merad, etc. The movie’s has been seen by more than 7.6 million people in France since its release in March.

After their 1st noticed and remarkable album, “Doubts & Convictions”, in 2003 Troublemakers release “Stereo Pictures vol. 2”, which depicts an alarming urban world that is comparatively “old school” and mixes features of old soul, old jazz, old funk, old samples and modern electronic sounds.

The French group consists of Fred Berthet, Arnaud Taillefer and Lionel Corsini. The three meet in Marseilles, sharing their diverse musical passions. It takes them two years of work in studio to release their first album, which has a sound that can be described equally to reggae, afrobeat, funk, Hip-Hop or electronic heads.