Emancipation

Composer

MARCELO ZARVOS

MODERATED BY JON BURLINGAME (Variety)

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Tuesday, December 20, 1:00PM (PT)

Emancipation tells the triumphant story of Peter (Will Smith), a man who escapes from slavery, relying on his wits, unwavering faith, and deep love for his family to evade cold-blooded hunters and the unforgiving swamps of Louisiana on his quest for freedom. The film is inspired by the 1863 photos of “Whipped Peter,” taken during a Union Army medical examination, that first appeared in Harper’s Weekly. One image, known as “The Scourged Back,” which shows Peter’s bare back mutilated by a whipping delivered by his enslavers, ultimately contributed to growing public opposition to slavery. R | 132mins

Marcelo Zarvos is an acclaimed composer who has scored a diverse variety of high-profile film and television projects throughout his career. He is recognized for his trademark sound – a seamless blend of classical, orchestral, rock, electronic, and various ethnic elements, that create uniquely affecting and emotionally charged music for film, TV, modern dance, and the concert stage. Zarvos began by studying classical music and later began delving into jazz, rock, and world music.   

Zarvos has scored more than 60 films and has an expert skill with layered stories and emotive undertones. He most recently scored Emancipation starring Will Smith and directed by his frequent collaborator, Antoine Fuqua. The film was released on December 9, 2022, in theaters and on AppleTV+. Zarvos has scored Fuqua films including Brooklyn’s Finest; the two-part HBO Sports documentary What’s My Name | Muhammad Ali; and The Guilty starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Throughout his career, Zarvos has also collaborated with many other celebrated filmmakers including Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said; Please Give; Amazon series One Mississippi; The Land of Steady Habits), Barry Levinson (The Humbling; Emmy-nominated You Don’t Know Jack; Rock the Kasbah) and Denzel Washington (A Journal for Jordan; the award-winning Fences).  Zarvos burst onto the film landscape in the early 2000s with his score for Kissing Jessica Stein and with the film adaptation of the John Irving novel, The Door in the Floor. Some of Zarvos’ credits include The Good Shepherd, The Words, Sin Nombre, Hollywoodland, and American Ultra. Twice nominated for Primetime Emmy® Awards for You Don’t Know Jack and Taking Chance), Zarvos’ television work includes Too Big to Fail; The Big C; Extant; the HBO film Phil Spector, the Amazon series One Mississippi; and Z: The Beginning of Everything; the Amazon limited series The Romanoffs; the Showtime series The Affair; and Ray Donovan.

Some of Zarvos’ recent projects include the acclaimed hit film WONDER starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, and Jacob Tremblay and directed by Stephen Chbosky; Breakthrough starring Chrissy Metz and directed by Roxann Dawson; and SHOWTIME’S seven-part limited series The Loudest Voice produced by Blumhouse Television starring Russell Crowe. Zarvos wrote the original score for Dark Waters starring Mark Ruffalo and directed by Todd Haynes. He also wrote the original music for the feature film Penguin Bloom starring Naomi Watts directed by Glendyn Ivin (2021). Upcoming projects include Flamin’ Hot, the biopic about the son of a Mexican immigrant who invented the Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and disrupted the food industry, Richard Montanez. The film, directed by Eva Longoria, is set to be released by Searchlight Pictures in 2023.

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