Exciting announcements coming soon!

So...there will be a couple exciting announcements coming soon! Stay tuned and keep checking back.

GRADUATION Gets Great Review In Houston

Houston Chronicle movie critic Joey Guerra gave GRADUATION a great review this past Tuesday, April 24th, 2007. The review is titled "Crime caper makes a grand Graduation - Likable cast, filmmaker's light touch make film worth seeing." Guerra says the following, "Graduation takes one of the most pivotal days in teenage life, 'high school commencement' and adds to the madness with a cleverly planned bank robbery. Far-fetched, sure, but filmmaker Michael Mayer pulls it off with a light, likable touch and a photogenic, young cast...what Mayer does from that jumpoff point makes the film work. Instead of making just another teen throwaway flick, he's infused Graduation with nicely realized characters and action that rarely lags. The crime caper that makes up the final third of the film sparkles with energy. CLICK HERE FOR THE ENTIRE REVIEW

Brian featured in Sundance article

Brian was featured in a print article published in the Park City Digital Report this past January 2007. 40,000 copies of this industry trade paper are distributed throughout the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT and Salt Lake City, UT every January. To read a scan of the actual print article CLICK HERE! The article "9/Tenths - Behind The Music" briefly discusses Brian's approach on scoring the independant feature film 9/Tenths and some of the techniques and tools he used in creating a dense symphonic score in the independant film world.

New 9/TENTHS Poster

A new theatrical poster for the film 9/TENTHS has been released. 9/TENTHS will be released soon. A screening of the film will take place at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, CA on Sunday November 5th, 2006 at 11AM. Unfortunately this screening is not open to the public and is for the AFM attendees only.

Photos from the GRADUATION sound mix.

Here are some photos at the GRADUATION sound mix of Brian and director Mike Mayer. The mix was done at the Wilshire Stages (Stages A & B) in Hollywood, CA which has been the sound mix location of many blockbuster and independant films such as The Fast & The Furious, Legally Blond 2, Donnie Darko and Hustle and Flow. The photos below were taken by GRADUATION producer Bob Degus.

Mike and Brian posing for a photo in Stage B at the Harrison MPC 166 track mixing console.

Listening back to the final mix of a scene.

Can you tell Brian had not slept in 3 days?

Brian wins an Aurora Award!

Brian has won a PLATINUM - BEST OF SHOW AURORA AWARD for his original score to the short film THE RECE!PT. The Aurora Awards are a film and video entertainment industry award, judged by a jury of one's peers. The "Platinum Best Of Show" award is the highest honor the Aurora Awards can give. The Aurora statues are cast in the same foundry that creates the Oscar, Emmy and Clio statues.

THE RECE!PT short film won two Platinum Aurora Awards this year, one for Best Original Score and one for Sound Design.

THE RECE!PT To Screen At Santa Barbara Film Fest

THE RECE!PT has been selected to screen at the respected Santa Barbara Int'l Film Festival, Feb. 2-12, 2006. The comedy short will screen twice in 35mm at the festival.

1. Monday, Feb. 6th at 9:00PM at the Lobero Theatres 2. Wednesday, Feb. 8th at 4:00 PM at the Metro 4 Theatres.

Tickets and other festival information can be found at the SBIFF festival website.