FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE:
Academy Award-Winning Composer David Shire Joins
Buffalo International Film
Festival Advisory Board
BUFFALO, N.Y. – April 27,
2007 — The Buffalo
International Film Festival (BIFF) announces the newest member of its board of
advisors, Academy Award-Winning Composer David Shire.
David Shire has composed scores for more than 125 motion pictures and
television shows in addition to songs and music for numerous plays. In 1980,
Shire won an Oscar for Best Music shared with lyricist Norman Gimbel for the
Best Original Song “It Goes Like It Goes” in "Norma Rae." His other major motion
pictures scores include Alan J. Pakula’s “All the President’s Men,” Francis Ford
Coppola’s “The Conversation” and most recently David Fincher’s “Zodiac.”
Born in Buffalo,
NY, he has a new show at the Studio Arena
Theater there: A Time For Love: Songs
from a Marriage, a musical with Shire’s long-time theater collaborator
lyricist/director Richard Maltby, Jr. The show began previews on April 20, 2007 and runs through May
13. For more information, visit www.studioarena.org. Shire
has also done special classes at
Nichols
School in
Buffalo.
Shire has a lifetime interest in science. He composed the score for
“2010: The Year We Make Contact.” Shire will be involved with "How Science
Works: The Film and Video Competition," another activity of BIFF. He also
worked with Walter Murch (another science buff) on "Return to Oz," the sequel to
the film scored by Buffalo's Harold Arlen.
The Buffalo International Film Festival, Inc., a 501(c)(3) not for profit
corporation in New York State, was established as a public charity and depends
upon contributions from the public at large, corporations, foundations,
government grants and other beneficiaries. The festival highlights the cultural,
artistic and scientific contributions of Western New York and world
cinema.
For more information about
the Buffalo
International Film Festival,
visit: www.buffalofilmfestival.org or www.buffalofilmfestival.com,
Yahoo! at groups.yahoo.com/group/BuffaloFilmFestival/,
Myspace at www.myspace.com/buffalointlfilmfest.
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