SCL Online Screening + Q&A: Ammonite

Q&A with Composers

VOLKER BERTELMANN
DUSTIN O’HALLORAN

Moderated by JON BURLINGAME (Variety)

Screening Link provided with Registration Confirmation

YouTube Live Stream Q&A

MONDAY, DECEMBER 14 – 12:00PM PT

With her famed discoveries behind her, archeologist Mary Anning fills her days searching for common fossils until a wealthy visitor entrusts her with the care of his wife. While Mary initially clashes with her guest, a bond develops, compelling them to determine the true nature of their friendship.  R | 120min

Volker Bertelmann is an internationally acclaimed pianist, composer, and experimental musician. His score for Garth Davis’ film Lion, which he composed in collaboration with Dustin O’Halloran, was nominated for an Academy Award, for a Golden Globe, a Critics’ Choice Awards, and a BAFTA’s in the Best Score/ Best Music categories. Bertelmann’s projects also include Your Honor, Summerland, Patrick Melrose, Gunpowder, Adrift, the upcoming Stowaway, and in collaboration with Dustin O’Halloran: The Art of Racing in the Rain, The Old Guard, and Ammonite (starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan). 

Bertelmann, who in his solo work goes by the name Hauschka, is renowned both for his trademark sound, which he achieves by preparing the piano with various small objects, and his ability to improvise entire performances. He has produced over twenty albums and EPs. He is a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 

Dustin O’Halloran is an American pianist and composer with four acclaimed solo albums under his own name, and a member of the band A Winged Victory for the Sullen. Winner of a 2015 Emmy Award for his main title theme to Amazon’s comedy-drama Transparent, he was also nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a Critics’ Choice Award for his score to 2016’s Lion, written in collaboration with Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka). O’Halloran’s film career began when Sofia Coppola invited him to contribute to 2006’s Marie Antoinette, and since then he’s worked on multiple films and TV shows, including Drake Doremus’ Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, Like Crazy (2011), and Marc Turtletaub’s Puzzle (2018), where he collaborated with veteran Scandinavian chart-topper Ane Brun for the film’s closing song. In 2018, he scored George Tillman Jr.’s The Hate U Give and joined forces with Bryan Senti for Nick Murphy’s six-part Sky TV series, Save Me, while he and Bertelmann also reconvened that year for Netflix’s The Old Guard, starring Charlize Theron. He and Bertelmann continue to collaborate, scoring the BBC’s 2019 adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Francis Lee’s Ammonite, recently released by NEON. 

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Attendees will be emailed a Screening Link upon Registration and a Q&A YouTube Live Stream link on Monday, December 14, 10 minutes before Q&A start.

Attendees can ask questions on YouTube chat, and the SCL Host will pass them on to the Moderator. The SCL Member Code of Conduct applies to online Q&As.