IV Edition of the International Soundtrack Award created by Viñas Familia Gil

FSO has participated, once again, in the IV Edition Gil Soundtrack Award, the largest award in the world for composers aged 18 to 35. These awards grant a prize of 50,000 euros for the best OST for short film, this year, among the 153 compositions presented from 28 different nationalities, from four continents. The Film Symphony Orchestra has collaborated with Viñas Familia Gil since the creation of the award in 2016.

What are the Gil Awards?

These awards, which celebrated this Thursday the fourth edition of the International Soundtrack Award, have been created by Viñas Familia Gil. The Gil Soundtrack Award awards the best soundtrack for a short film and also represents the consolidation of a unique international competition in its category, which continues to support young talent, music and culture. For all these reasons, it has achieved the status of an event of global reach.

 

Jury that awarded the Gil Soundtrack Award

Likewise, four great composers have chaired the jury of the Gil Soundtrack Award. First of all, Bruce Broughton, the California-born composer who has won nine Emmys and an Oscar nomination. He is known for his work as the creator of the soundtracks for westerns. Silverado and  tombstone, in 1985 and 1993 or The secret of the pyramid, one of the films focused on the young Sherlock Holmes.

Another president of the Gil Awards jury this year has been the legendary Patrick Doyle, frequent collaborator of Kenneth Branagh and composer of the soundtrack of thor, from the soundtrack of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; or the soundtracks of IndoChina,  Henry V, Great Expectations either  The diaryof Bridget Jones.

The third member of this relevant jury is the Icelandic composer and cellist, Hildur Guðnadóttir, highly recognized music that has made the soundtrack of joker, for which he won the Oscar, or the fascinating HBO series, Chernobyl, of which the composer explains that she composed it with Chris Watson and Sam Slater in the very nuclear power plant of Ignalia (Lithuania), where a good part of the miniseries was filmed.

 

Last but not least, the chairmanship of the jury himself closed Alejandro Amenábar, Spanish director and composer, winner of an Oscar and nine Goya Awards. Thesis, Open your eyes, The others either out to sea are some of the most relevant films by this director and musician born in Chile, but of Spanish nationality and a regular in the Hollywood universe.

In addition, the 2022 jury has been completed with Constantine MartYonez-Orts director of the Film Symphony Orchestra, the composer and music producer Lucio Godoy, the composer specializing in film music Roque Baños and the representative of Viñas Familia Gil, Juan Gil Vera, promoter of the Gil Soundtrack Award.

Winning work of the IV edition of the Gil Soundtrack Award

The winner of the IV Edition of the Gil Soundtrack Award has been the composer David Heymann, for his work a gleam of hope. The Berliner is a passionate musician who has trained musically at the Robert Schumann School of Music and the University of the Arts in Utrecht. He is at the beginning of his career composing music for short films and cinematographic projects and, in addition, he was a finalist in the III edition of this contest, a sign of perseverance and dedication.

Amenábar evaluated the winning work in this way: “This year, the winning project meets two basic requirements in my opinion: it is very coherent and delicate, both in musical development and instrumentation; and explores in depth the expressive possibilities of what is narrated to us, which is why it contributes not only to the emotional reinforcement, generally attributed to music, but to the better understanding of some of the passages of the short film.”

The winning soundtrack accompanies the short film 'What you sow', selected from a previous script competition in collaboration with the ESCAC (Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya) and produced by it with a team made up entirely of students and graduates of the school.

Composers and finalist compositions for the International Soundtrack Award

The finalist compositions and composers in this edition have been: Memoria Líquida /Author: Antón Alcalde Rodríguez, Memories of a lost past /Author: Gian Marco Verdone, Vintage Time /Author: Lucas Peire Serrate, By your side, always /Author: Alicia Morote, Memories of the earth /Author: Albert Alvarez Garcia, A lullaby for Pilar /Author: Daniel Osiewala Jimenez, Hug /Author: Camilo Andris Forero Carrero, An Unforgettable Bond /Author: Zane Lowry, Reminiscence /Author: Yiren Wang, Seeds of life /Author: Alessandro Speciale, Flashes of Hope /Author: Andreu Diport.

Performance of 'A gleam of hope' by the Film Symphony Orchestra

This Thursday, December 1, the awards gala took place on the stage of the Príncipe Pío Theater Station in Madrid. An event where the awards were presented as a result of effort and inspiration, and which featured the performance of the winning song, a gleam of hope, by our Film Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Constantino Martínez-Orts.

At the gala, different members of the Gil family and celebrities from the world of the Spanish audiovisual sector were present, in addition to the winner of this edition, David Heymann.