The EUROPEAN TALENT COMPETITION offers a platform especially for young talents. The participants‘ tasks was to compose a new musical interpretation (score and/or sound design) to the short film “UnVernunft" ("UnReason") by director Hanna Viktoria Heimann (HFF Munich).

The nominees (in alphabetical order):
Rossano Cariello (Score), Martina Cirillo (Score), Lorenzo Gioelli (Score), Johann Grillenbeck (Score), Victor Habes (Score), Michael Kaspar (Score), Thomas Peyrounette (Score), Manuel Seum (Score), David Videli (Score), Jenny Winter (Sound Design), Niels N. Winter (Score).

The competition screening takes place at Turistarama on Saturday, June 11th.
The nominees and their new scores for "UnReason" will be presented on the big screen to the audience and jury, moderated by Yati Durant.

The winner of the WDR FILMSCORE AWARD has the opportunity to record his composition with the WDR Rundfunkorchester. The WDR FILMSCORE AWARD will be presented in cooperation with WDR and WDR Funkhausorchester. The awarded prize of the EUROPEAN TALENT AWARD SOUND DESIGN is a 5.1. Surround Short Film Mix in the prestigious sound mixing studio Torus in Cologne, which has donated this award.

Further informations about the competition and the nominees: https://www.soundtrackcologne.de/competitions/european-talent-competition

PEER RABEN MUSIC AWARD

Eight film composers enter the race for the PEER RABEN MUSIC AWARD. The winners will be announced at the grand award ceremony on June 11th, 2022.

The PEER RABEN MUSIC AWARD will be awarded for the fourteenth time. Film scores with innovative and dramatically coherent use of music and sound in relation to the narrative will be honored.

The award commemorates the great German film composer Peer Raben, and comprises a prize money of 1,500 euros.

The nominees (in alphabetical order):

Roy Bemelmans (WALL #4, Director: Lucas Camps, Netherlands), Tom Bromley (Sleep Singing, Director: Bradley Porter, United Kingdom), Lennert Busch (A Short Film, Director: David Dearlove, Netherlands), Gary Hirche (None of Us, Director: Deniz Zagli, Germany), David Kamp (Zoon, Director: Jonatan Schwenk, Germany), Emer Kinsella (Unborn, Director: Sasha Marie Speer, USA), Olivier Militon (Slipping Away, Director: Gabriel Henot-Lefevre, France), Marcus Sander (RIM, Director: Hagar Faibish, Germany)

The competition screening takes place in the Turistarama on Saturday, June 11^th. The nominees and their films will be presented to audience and jury moderated by André Feldhaus.

Further information about the competition and the nominees: soundtrackcologne.de/competitions/peer-raben-music-award/