Silent River

Composer

BRIAN RALSTON

Director/Producer/Writer/Editor

CHRIS CHAN LEE

Music Soundtrack Mixer

LISA K. FOWLE

MODERATED BY DAX PHELAN (Screenwriter)

Friday, December 16, 6:00PM PT

**Attending guests will receive a QR code for a

free download of the Silent River Soundtrack**

Please be mindful of the SCL’s Code of Conduct.

On the road in a desperate attempt to reunite with his estranged wife, Elliot takes respite at a desert motel. He encounters Greta, a mysterious woman bearing a striking resemblance to his wife. Elliot soon discovers her secret and descends into a mind-bending journey that forces him to question exactly who she is and where they are. Haunting and hallucinogenic, Silent River is a layered and nuanced film that boldly challenges the very notions of reality and illusion.

Not Rated | 121mins

Brian Ralston, composer, is a 2021 Hollywood Media in Music Award winner who has spent the past 20 years creating compelling, heart-pounding, uplifting, and beautifully melodic tracks that delight and inspire audiences.

Brian is best known for his work on the film score for Crooked Arrows (20th Century Fox), the first mainstream Hollywood movie about lacrosse, starring Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) and Gil Birmingham (Wind River, Hell or High Water), directed by Steve Rash (Buddy Holly Story, Can‘t Buy Me Love). The score reflects richly thematic melodies set against the thrill of victory and the pains of defeat in the action-packed sports drama, which has won him much praise within the film community.

More recently, Brian worked on the intimate western-inspired score to the dramatic love story Being Rose, starring Cybill Shepherd, James Brolin, and Pam Grier which hit theaters nationwide in January 2019. Brian has also recently completed scoring the romance drama About Him & Her directed by Icé Mrozek. Silent River is Brian’s first collaboration with Chris Chan Lee.  Brian is a graduate of the USC Screen scoring program (2001) and has been on faculty of the UCLA Extension Film Scoring program for 12 years teaching the “Business of Film Music” class which is a required course he developed for their program. 

Chris Chan is a Korean American filmmaker based in Los Angeles, CA. He graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in the mid-90s, and has spent his career of over 25 years developing and producing Asian American content. The book Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now lists Chris as one of the “pioneers” of Asian American cinema.  His debut feature film as writer/director was Yellow (1997), a coming-of-age movie about a group of teens in Los Angeles during their fateful graduation night. The lauded film features the first performances of John Cho and Jason Tobin and re-envisioned the American teen comedy with an ensemble of Asian Americans in the lead roles. Yellow world premiered at the 1997 CAAMFest Film Festival (then called NAATA) and won the Gold Carp 1st Place Audience Award for Best Feature Film and the Golden Reel Award for Best Independent Feature Film. Yellow had a successful national theatrical release including a 5-week run in Southern California across 9 screens. The film is considered a milestone in Asian American filmmaking.

Chris spent a year directing English-language prime-time television at MediaCorp Studios in Singapore for Channel 5. He is a 2004 Fellow of the Tribeca Film Festival All Access Program and a two-time Fellow of the Film Independent Fast Track Program.

Lisa Fowle is an award-winning sound designer with a distinguished 2-decade history of working in and consulting for the motion picture film, live theatre, and interactive gaming industries. Her clients have included Disney, SEGA, Niantic, Lego, RedBull Media, Nissan, Marvel, Discovery Channel, Microsoft, Walt Disney Imagineering, and The National Resources Defense Council. Key areas of focus are sound mixing and design for Feature Films and Broadcasts, Music Engineering, Live Theatre, and AAA Video Game development. Lisa has a BFA in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts Studies from the University of Arizona and had a design internship at Skywalker Sound working on 2 Pixar films with mentor Gary Rydstrom.

*** SCREENING + Q&A INFORMATION ***

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