Composing For Screen Workshop

Dive into the art of composing for film, television and other media!   

Screen Illawarra is running a Composing For Screen workshop, with inspiring guest speakers, to explore the process of writing music for the screen and the different ways scores can function in narrative and factual storytelling. There will be a multimedia event featuring clips from the presenters' work, along with other examples from cinema. This workshop will be of interest to aspiring film composers as well as directors, editors and those interested in film making as a whole.

Where: The Music Lounge, Wollongong Town Hall - Cnr of Crown St & Kembla St Wollongong

When: Saturday 26th October, 10:00am - 2:00pm. Doors open 30 mins prior to the event for people to arrive, get a drink and mingle.

Cost: $15 for Screen Illawarra members. Non-members please join Screen Illawarra/renew your membership to attend.

Lunch will be provided and catered for at 12pm. 

Guest Speakers

Damien Lane: Damien Lane is a multi award-winning composer, specialising in music for the screen. Since graduating from AFTRS in 2011 he has been composing for film and television, as well as working as a producer, arranger and songwriter. Awards include an AACTA for Best Original Score in a Documentary (with Caitlin Yeo for The Dark Emu Story), APRA Screen Music Awards for both Best Original Song Composed for the Screen (with Jodi Phillis for Rollercoaster) and Best Music for a Short Film (1919), and an APRA Professional Development Award, among several other nominations. Other notable collaborators include Amanda Brown (co-composing RFDS, Quilty: Painting the Shadows and more), and acclaimed visual artist Tamara Dean (scoring her film installation Dysrhythmia, which was part of the inaugural exhibition at Ngununggula in the Southern Highlands). Damien recently completed work on the feature length documentary Aquarius, which premiered at Sydney Film Festival in June, ahead of a cinema release. He is currently composing and recording the score for another feature documentary that will be released in 2025.

Brent Williams: Brent Williams is a composer, musician and sound artist from Wollongong, Australia. He makes electroacoustic and electronic music, and sound art installations. He has created music and sound designs for film, theatre and installation artists for over 30 years. Brent uses synthesised and recorded sound as the basis for compositions and instrumentation, focusing primarily on timbre. Brent is also known for his work as a guitarist, keyboard player, recording engineer and producer. He has been a member of seminal Australian rock band The New Christs for 18 years. Brent holds Bachelor of Creative Arts in Music (Honours 1st class, University of Wollongong, 2007). He completed a Masters in music for the screen at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in 2019. Brent composed and performed the music score for the award winning films Sequin in a Blue Room (2018) and Jadai - The Broome Brawler (2019). He most recently composed and performed the score for Frances (2024, Dir. Sharon Lewis).