SCL Online Screening + Q&A: Promising Young Woman

Composer
ANTHONY WILLIS

Songwriters and Performers
ROMY FLORES (DeathbyRomy)
CYNTHIA NABOZNY (Cyn)

Music Supervisor
SUSAN JACOBS

Writer, Director, and Producer
EMERALD FENNELL

Moderated by ANTON MONSTED

EVP Soundtracks and A&R, Capitol Records

Screening Link Instructions provided with Registration Confirmation

YouTube Live Stream Q&A

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8 – 1:00PM PT

From groundbreaking director Emerald Fennell (Killing Eve) comes a delicious new take on revenge. Everyone said Cassie (Carey Mulligan) was a promising young woman…until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie’s life is what it appears to be: she’s wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she’s living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling and wildly entertaining story. R | 114min

Composer Anthony Willis has taken a running leap into the neverland of film scoring. Willis recently scored Emerald Fennell’s revenge thriller comedy Promising Young Woman, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, as well as Universal Pictures’ silent film 4k restoration of What Happened to Jones?, part of Kino Classics’ Reginald Denny Collection. Willis’ other composer credits include Amin Matalqa’s upcoming animated adventure Hump, Dreamworks Animation’s Annie Award-winning How to Train your Dragon: Homecoming, Seasons 6-8 of Fortnite, Michelle Morgan’s Sundance Selection comedy It Happened in L.A., Sony Playstation’s BAFTA-nominated video game Knack II and David Yarovesky’s horror thriller The Hive.

As a protege of composers John Powell and Henry Jackman, Willis contributed additional music to Jumanji: The Next Level, How to Train Your Dragon 2:The Hidden World, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Rio 2, and Despicable Me.

Singer, songwriter, and dark-pop provocateur DeathbyRomy pays attention to every last detail. She pours both pain and euphoria into her catchy but heavy music, pitting electronic melodies and propulsive beats against hypnotic vocals and deeply personal lyrics. Now 20 years old, the Los Angeles-born Romy Flores wrote her first song at age 5 and began releasing her music at 15, mining inspiration from the iconoclastic artists she was raised on (The Beatles, Björk and Kanye West, to name a few). With her 2018 debut album Monsters, she drew an avid following and found countless fans turning up to her shows. Her Capitol Records debut, 2019’s Love u – to Death EP, was short but sickly sweet, emphasizing her unique interweaving of rap boldness, electronic innovation, and raw rock ‘n’ roll passion. As Romy’s sound has taken shape, so has her DeathbyRomy persona: the Harajuku punk fashion, the corpsepaint-like makeup, and her hard-earned, utterly badass confidence. Stay tuned for more new music coming soon.

It’s not every day that the girl next door winds up being signed by one of the world’s biggest pop stars, but that once-in-a-lifetime scenario is exactly what happened when Cynthia Nabozny, who was born and raised in Detroit, met Katy Perry during a chance encounter. Katy fell head over heels for her voice, and quickly signed her to Unsub Records and publishing. Cyn now lives in Los Angeles, where she has devoted herself to writing over 400 songs, released a 7-song EP titled Mood Swing, and has had original songs featured on award-winning major motion picture soundtracks, including her song “Drinks” which broke at Top 40 radio this past Summer. She is the recipient of the 2020 ASCAP Songwriters Hall Of Fame scholarship and has big plans and projects slated for 2021 with no sign of her slowing down anytime soon.

In 2017, Susan Jacobs was the historic winner of the first-ever Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Supervision for the HBO series Big Little Lies, season finale episode, “You Get What You Need.” She received a nomination in the 2020 Guild of Music Supervisors Awards for her supervision work on Farewell – an award she won in the past for David O. Russell’s film American Hustle, and received past nominations for the films Wild and Silver Linings Playbook. She also has two Grammy nominations under her belt for “Best Compilation Soundtrack” for American Hustle and Little Miss Sunshine, as well as an Emmy nomination for “Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Music and Sound” for the documentary film, Pecados de mi Padre.

With a career spanning over twenty years, Susan has built a distinguished resume. She started her career in music at Island Records as the assistant to founder Chris Blackwell and eventually transitioned into artist management. Later she met director Robert Altman, which started her down the path of Music Supervision.

Emerald Fennell is an Emmy-nominated writer, director, actress, and author who has established herself as a prolific multihyphenate in theater, film, and television. Fennell’s new film Promising Young Woman, which she wrote and directed, will be released by Focus Features on December 25. The film was recognized as one of the top scripts of the 2018 Blacklist. Fennell can currently be seen in Season 3 of The Crown playing Camilla Parker Bowles, for which she’s receiving rave reviews. Prior to that, she served as Head Writer on Season 2 of Killing Eve, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe. She is currently writing a contemporary musical stage version of Cinderella alongside Andrew Lloyd Weber. Fennell’s debut short, Careful How You Go, which she wrote and directed, premiered at Sundance in 2019. Previously, she sold a pilot, Space Bound, to Fox with Gail Berman attached as the producer. Fennell has published three novels: Shiverton Hall along with the sequel, The Creeper, and 2017 Carnegie Medal nominee Monsters, all of which were incredibly well-received and drew comparisons ranging from Roald Dahl to Bret Easton Ellis. Her recent on-camera film credits include The Danish Girl, Pan, and Anna Karenina.

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Attendees will be emailed a Screening Link upon Registration and a Q&A YouTube Live Stream link on Tuesday, December 8, 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.