Date at the Beach

The world premiere for “Summer of 8,” a film we music supervised last year, will take place Tues April 26 at 8PM at The Newport Beach Film Festival. There’s a second screening April 27 at 8PM (both at Newport Beach Island Cinemas).

Tickets go on sale today, April 1st. Beautifully written and directed by Ryan Schwartz, and with an amazing cast of young talents (Bailey Noble, Natalie Hall, Shelley Hennig, Carter Jenkins, Matt Shively, Michael Grant and Nick Marini), this is the rare film that shows teenagers not as one-dimensional caricatures, but as emerging adults searching for love, laughter, and resolution during their last day together before their lives head in separate directions.

It was a pleasure to work on the score with composer Tobias Norberg and assemble the soundtrack (including songs from The Head and the Heart, Ry X, Fruition, Tim Myers & El May, and many others). Hopefully this will be just the start of many opportunities for this project to reach a growing fanbase!