Kimana Tuskers
(Digital)

MovieScore Media presents the original score by Stephen Gallagher for the 2021 wildlife documentary short directed by Jamie Joseph, produced by Saving the Wild (New Zealand) Kimana Tuskers.

MovieScore Media presents the original score by Stephen Gallagher for the 2021 wildlife documentary short directed by Jamie Joseph, produced by Saving the Wild (New Zealand) Kimana Tuskers.

The Story: The race to save the last great elephant tuskers from a vanishing landscape.
There are fewer than 20 tuskers left on earth, where ivory still sweeps the ground. Filmed throughout the Greater Amboseli ecosystem in Kenya, Kimana Tuskers is a short film of epic proportions. Follow the famous tusker known as Craig, and the younger elephant bulls who entrust their lives to him as they navigate a vanishing landscape through the Kimana Wildlife Corridor. This is the passage of experience, a brotherhood, built on respect, trust and loyalty, and what awaits them is the promised land, so that one day their sons will rise to be kings…

The Score: “You immediately see the tenderness and deep respect director Jamie Joseph has for the elephants in the footage that she and her team captured. Our discussion around the score started with the emotions that she wanted to evoke in her story. The score had to guide us through an intimate insight of the elephant herd amongst the enormity of the Kenyan landscape and then underpin it all with a heaviness of the threat shadowing them.It felt like there was a steady grand majesty to the pictures. We wanted to colour the score with big inviting textures as well as leaving room for the wondrous up-closeness with these incredible beasts. The film looks beautiful. The music is an emotional tour guide. The message is stark but hopeful.” – Stephen Gallagher

The Composer: Stephen Gallagher is an award-winning composer, music editor and sound designer. He holds an honours degree in Composition from Victoria University of Wellington where he studied under John Psathas, Jack Body and Ross Harris. His feature film credits include Supervising Music Editor for Amy Berg’s documentary West of Memphis and Music Editor for Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 and Supervising Music Editor for Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones. He also worked on Jackson’s The Hobbit series and was a finalist for Best Sound Editing in a Feature Film at the 2013 MPSE Golden Reel Awards for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Stephen was nominated for an APRA Silver Scroll Award in 2018 for his score to the feature film, Human Traces.

SC21002 KIMANA TUSKERS (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Music Composed by STEPHEN GALLAGHER
Release date (digital): September 24, 2021

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More info at: Composer Stephen Gallagher Official Site