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A Perfect Planet
June 21, 2021 @ 12:30 pm – 1:15 pm PDT
Composer
ILAN ESHKERI
MODERATED BY HUW CORDEY
(Producer/Director of Episode 1 “Volcanoes”)
Screening Link available upon Registration
YouTube Live Stream Q&A:
Monday, June 21, 12:30PM PT
This five-part series explains how the living planet operates, showing how the forces of nature — weather, ocean currents, solar energy, and volcanoes — drive, shape, and support Earth’s great diversity of life. TV-PG | 50min
Ilan Eshkeri is an award-winning composer, artist, songwriter, producer, and creator whose work is performed in concert, theatre, film, television, and video games. He most recently created music for the BBC nature docuseries A Perfect Planet, his fourth collaboration with legendary naturalist Sir David Attenborough. In 2020, Eshkeri composed the D.I.C.E. Award-winning narrative score for Sony PlayStation’s blockbuster video game Ghost of Tsushima, which was also nominated for multiple awards including the BAFTA Game Awards, SCL Awards, G.A.N.G. Awards, and the IFMCA Awards. Additionally, Eshkeri and Ralph Fiennes completed their third film together – a biopic about Rudolf Nureyev, The White Crow. This followed the creation of the ballet Narcissus and Echo. Amongst his extensive catalog of film & television scores are multiple Oscar & BAFTA-winning films such as Still Alice, Stardust, and Shaun The Sheep. He has also been nominated for an Ivor Novello for The Young Victoria as well as a BAFTA for The Snowman & The Snowdog. Eshkeri also continues his work on The Sims 4 video game. He also continues his collaboration with astronaut Tim Peake and the European Space Agency with his spell-binding show in concert Space Station Earth, last performed in Stockholm to an audience of 10,000 people and returning to its world tour in 2022. Collaborating with Burberry on a landmark fashion show in 2016, he composed and conducted a choral symphonic suite, Reliquary, which then reached no.1 in the UK classical chart.
In 2020, Eshkeri was invited to become a music branch member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and is also a voting member of BAFTA.
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Attendees will be emailed a Screening Link upon Registration and a Q&A YouTube Live Stream link on Monday, June 21, 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.