2009 Screen Music Awards: Presenters and Performers Announced!
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association) and the AGSC (Australian Guild of Screen Composers) are delighted to announce details of the presenters and performers who will take to the stage at the forthcoming 2009 SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS. The black tie event, which honours the often-unsung heroes of screen composition, will be held at Sydney’s illustrious City Recital Hall on Monday November 2nd.
Legendary Australian film director BRUCE BERESFORD (Breaker Morant, Tender Mercies, Driving Miss Daisy, Black Robe and many more) will appear at the event, hot on the heels of the success of his current box office success, and critics’ favourite, Mao’s Last Dancer.
High profile film producer/writer/director CHRIS NOONAN will also join the SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS line-up. Best-known as the director and co-writer of the international hit movie, Babe, Chris has also co-produced the popular Davida Allen telemovie Feeling Sexy (1999), directed Miss Potter (starring Renee Zellweger) and has most recently been working on a slate of projects including The Third Witch and Zebras, a powerful drama set in the dying days of apartheid South Africa.
The sassy star of the abovementioned Feeling Sexy, SUSIE PORTER will add some glamour to the SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS. With an impressive list of film and television credits to her name, the incredibly versatile Porter has recently graced Australian TV screens in East of Everything and is currently starring in the SBS drama mini-series East West 101.
Also presenting awards on the night will be producer STEVE KNAPMAN and actor, writer, director and broadcaster JONATHAN BIGGINS. As co-director of Knapman Wyld Television, Steve, along with partner Kris Wyld, produces popular, high quality and innovative television drama and is currently behind the success of East West 101. As for Mr Biggins, his long list of credits include performing in Three Men and a Baby Grand for ABC TV and hosting Critical Mass, the ABC’s weekly arts programme. This year he performed in the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Tom Stoppard’s play Travesties.
The Hon PETER GARRETT, AM, MP, Labor Member for Kingsford Smith and Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts will lend his support to present at the SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS. And the multi talented SBS RockWiz hostess with the most-ess, JULIA ZEMIRO, will also lend a hand.
LISA GERRARD, arguably one of Australia’s most highly regarded composers, internationally, will bring her unforgettable and mesmerising voice to the 2009 SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS. The enigmatic Gerrard will perform an excerpt from her score for Balibo (nominated in the category of Best Feature Film Score) backed by Paul Grabowsky and ensemble.
And last but not least, APRA and the AGSC are proud to announce that SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS nominee EGO LEMOS will deliver a very special performance of “Balibo” - his nominated composition in the category of Best Original Song Composed for the Screen. Ego Lemos is a remarkable man, with a remarkable voice. Regarded as a significant East Timorese community member, Ego has lived through some of his country’s most tumultuous periods. He has interpreted and modernised some of the most beautiful and heart-wrenching traditional melodies from his nation’s history, and produced a wealth of original songs in the nation’s lingua-franca, Tetum. He sings about issues such as the centrality of water to life, praises the nation’s peasant farmers in their unceasing toil and urges his people to remain positive and strive for unity. It was after reading the book Cover-Up: the Story of the Balibo Five, by Jill Jolliffe one evening, and going to sleep with the young men firmly on his mind, Ego awoke at 3am and by 7am had penned the haunting track, simply called “Balibo”. “I was reading Jill’s book on the Balibo Five before I went to sleep and literally tapped into their psyche at the time, I could inexplicably feel exactly what these young men felt as their lives were about to be taken away”, says Lemos.
Composer Paul Grabowsky will be conducting a live orchestra performing a selection of this year’s nominated compositions, and will also direct musical proceedings for the 2009 SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS. Chris Taylor and Andrew Hansen from The Chaser’s War On Everything will host the event.
2009 SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS CATEGORIES
- International Achievement Award
- Most Performed Screen Composer – Australia*
- Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas*
- Best Music for a Documentary
- Best Music for a Short Film
- Best Original Song Composed for the Screen
- Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie
- Best Music for a Television Series or Serial
- Best Television Theme
- Best Music for Children’s Television
- Best Feature Film Score
- Best Music for an Advertisement
- Best Soundtrack Album
*Determined by statistical analysis
THE 2009 SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS
Monday November 2nd, 2009
City Recital Hall,
Angel Place, Sydney
The 2009 Screen Music Awards are supported by Screen Australia and ABC Television.
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