2018 Toronto International Film Festival

2018 Toronto International Film Festival

A number of films with scores by Music Sales composers will be premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Hotel Mumbai is directed by Anthony Maras and tells the story of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks and its survivors. It stars Dev Patel and Armie Hammer and has a score by Volker Bertelmann. The Hate U Give is George Tillman Jr.’s adaptation of the novel by Angie Thomas which follows a promising student and cherished daughter whose life is upended, then galvanised, when a friend is senselessly shot dead by police. The film has a score by Dustin O’Halloran and will be released in theatres in October of this year.

Other Music Sales composers with work featured in the festival are as follows:

American Woman - directed by Jake Scott with music by Adam Wiltzie

The Death And Life of John F. Donovan - directed by Xavier Dolan with music by Gabriel Yared

The Biggest Little Farm - directed by John Chester with music by Jeff Beal

For more information about 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, see here.

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