Julia

Composer

JEFF DANNA

MODERATED BY JON BURLINGAME (Variety)

Screening Link available upon Registration

YouTube Live Stream Q&A 

Friday, June 3, 6:30PM (PT)

In 1962, intrepid chef and cookbook author Julia Child brings her signature panache into American living rooms with The French Chef – her groundbreaking series that pioneered the modern cooking show. TV-MA | 45mins

Jeff Danna has created scores for a long and varied list of films. His credits include such diverse projects as the hit film adaptations of the video game/action franchises Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Silent Hill, and Silent Hill 2, Fracture, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Tideland, Lakeview Terrace, The Kid Stays in The Picture, Chicago 10, Closing The Ring, Tales of Arcadia, the Kurt Cobain biopic Montage of Heck, and the cult classic The Boondock Saints, among others. Additionally, his collaborative Orchestral Celtic albums with his brother, composer Mychael Danna, have enjoyed worldwide success and placed in the Top Ten on the Billboard chart in the United States.

For television, Jeff and Mychael Danna wrote the original music for the FX series Tyrant which earned them both Emmy nominations in the categories of Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) and Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music in 2015. They were previously Emmy-nominated for Camelot in 2011. Jeff and Mychael Danna worked on the score for The Good Dinosaur and received an Annie nomination for Outstanding Achievement, Music in an Animated Feature Production, the animated film Storks which was released in theatres in September 2016, and for Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk directed by Ang Lee, the original score for the animated film The Breadwinner, which was nominated for an Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production, won the best original music award from the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France and won the Canadian Screen Award for Film Score of the Year. They also wrote the music for Alias Grace for Netflix for which they were Emmy nominated in 2018 and also garnered a nomination for a Canadian Screen Award. Jeff and Mychael wrote the music for the animated feature The Addams Family and The Addams Family 2, and Disney and Pixar’s Oscar-nominated animated film Onward for which they received an Annie nomination for Best Music – Feature. 

Commencing in 2019, Jeff wrote the music for 3Below, Wizards, and Rise Of Titans; three segments of  Guillermo del Toro’s Young Adult animation project Trollhunters. 

Most recently Jeff wrote the music for the HBO® Max Original comedy series Julia which is inspired by Julia Child’s extraordinary life and her long-running television series, The French Chef which pioneered the modern cooking show.

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