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MIDNIGHT MOVIE MIDNIGHT MOVIE (2008) is the first feature film written by Jack Messitt and Mark Garbett and directed by Jack Messitt. The movie storyline is framed in the context of a movie within a movie. Penka Kouneva had the task of scoring for |
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Contest Rules Entries and Prizes First prize: First selection of CD and autographed DVD. CD and DVD titles Available
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Penka Kouneva |
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Penka Kouneva is a Sundance Composer Fellow and a rising Hollywood film composer who blends her native Eastern European influences with modern orchestra, medieval chant, rock, and electronica. Recently, she composed additional cues for the videogame "Transformers 2", working alongside composer Steve Jablonsky. Other works include the horror feature Midnight Movie, the crime drama The Third Nail, the Sci-Fi Channel thriller Ice Spiders and TV music for Forensic Files on CourtTV, Dog Fights and Modern Marvels. In addition to scoring, Penka is a busy orchestrator on film soundtracks, including Transformers 1, 2, Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Angels and Demons, Nine, Hostel I and II, Matrix 2, 3, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Penka was born and raised in Bulgaria, started piano lessons at 6 and wrote incidental music for children's theater shows at 12. ...In 1997, she made history at Duke University by receiving the first-ever Doctorate in Composition from this distinguished institution. At Duke, she studied with Steve Jaffe, Scott Lindroth and with the Dutch postmodern minimalist Louis Andriessen. ...Penka Kouneva has since been honored with WorldFest's Platinum Remi for Best Score, the Aaron Copland Award, the Sundance Institute Composer Lab Fellowship and Meet the Composer Award.
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