Three weeks ago Nathan Halpern and I finished writing and recording the final few pieces of score for Nanfu Wang & Jialing Zhang’s “One Child Nation,” and last night it won the Grand Jury Prize for US Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. Amazon immediately picked the film up for distribution, which means that many many people will have a chance to see this powerful and heartbreaking film. It is a tremendous honor to be a part of Jialing and Nanfu’s amazing and uncompromising storytelling, and I am thrilled that it will reach a large audience.

The 2019 Sundance film festival starts today and I am very happy to LYK that I have music in two films debuting in competition this year.

Nathan Halpern and I wrote the score to Nanfu Wang & Jialing Zhang’s “One Child Nation,” which examines the forced sterilizations, child abandonment, and state-sponsored kidnappings that underlay China’s one-child policy. This is the third feature that Nathan and I have scored for Nanfu Wang and I continue to be awed by her uncompromising and completely original film making. Truly an honor to be a part of this must-see film.

I also contributed original music to “Tigerland,” the new film by Oscar-winning director Ross Kauffman. “Tigerland” details efforts to save these legendary animals from extinction, introducing us to fascinating and heroic individuals and breathtaking landscapes. 

I am thrilled to announce that “Minding The Gap” has been nominated for this years Doc Feature Oscar. Nathan Halpern and I scored this debut film by director Bing Liu’s debut film in late 2017 and it has been a wonderful experience seeing how “Minding the Gap” has touched so many ppl and won so many awards over the past twelve months. The film is available to stream now at Hulu and Amazon.

As this new piece in WIRED explains, 2018 was an incredibly strong year for documentary film, and it is truly an honor to have been a part of a film that is leading this new vanguard in storytelling.

Our original score is available to hear now on Spotify, Apple music, and all the other usual digital platforms.

CALL HER GANDA premiered just last week at the 2018 TRIBECA film festival.  This intense and beautifully shot film was reviewed in The Hollywood Reporter this past week.

MINDING THE GAP premiered at the 2018 SUNDANCE film festival where it won an award in competition.  This film has received numerous strong reviews and we are thrilled to see it appearing now in this fantastic showcase for documentary cinema.

“Less than a week after its sold-out world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, Minding the Gap by Bing Liu won the US Documentary Competition Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking last night at the fest’s official award ceremonies in Park City.  US Documentary Competition Juror Barbara Chai presented the award, saying:

“We are so exited to celebrate this extraordinary documentary for its vivacity and freshness of spirit, its unexpected revelation of personal detail, and dazzling, un-choreographed sequences that possess the athleticism and grace of ballet.”

The emotional world premiere of Minding the Gap was attended by film subjects Keire Johnson, Zack Mulligan, Kent Abernathy and Mengyue Bolen. Earning an uproarious standing ovation inside the theater, immediate reactions from social media and from critics were very strong…” (SOURCE).