What Tomás is Giving Your Film.

There was an interesting article in the LA times yesterday, an interview with composer James Horner concerning his collaboration with “Titanic’s” James Cameron on his new film “Avatar.  It is a very expensive film, and James Horner, an Oscar -winning composer, is most likely making at least a million dollars on it. In the interview, [...]

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A New Film – “Ravana’s Game”

 By Kelly Mahan Jaramillo     The arrival of this film has a rather interesting beginning.  Well over a year ago, Tomas was approached by a filmmaker who had intently perused his page, and was asking Tomas if he would be interested in scoring his film.  It was a full length feature, and wonder of [...]

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New Projects, More Festivals For “Dumpling”.

By Kelly Mahan Jaramillo, Dec.2, 2008 I just received word yesterday that Eileen Nelson, Director of “American Dumpling” has entered it into three more festivals – the Los Angeles Film Festival, the London International Documentary Film Festival, and the AFI Dallas International Film Festival. So, we are entered in numerous festivals, but again, will not [...]

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I Am Going To Make It Easy

By Kelly Mahan Jaramillo, Nov. 16th, 2007   On the budget and deadline issue, I offer this visual. Enjoy!

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It Happened Again, Part Two

By Kelly Mahan Jaramillo, Oct. 29th 2007 I mentioned in the last post, part one, that I felt there were exceptions on the budget issue. Writing a score for free (and mind you, this is only for us – many of you other composers have your own exceptions) – is seriously limited to: If the [...]

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Budgets, and music is the red haired stepchild

By Kelly Mahan Jaramillo, Oct. 2nd, 2007 I don’t want to complain (well, I DO, but….), as this business – writing music for films – is what Tomas chose to do and has been doing for many years, so I’ll keep the whining to a minimum. However….. For years, when looking for films that need [...]

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