Call for entries: Discovery of the Year 2017

The Discovery of the Year Award is aimed at encouraging emerging talent, who at the current WSA eligibility deadline (June 30, 2017), have scored not more than six feature films in total (excluded are shorts, TV-formats & documentaries), which have had a commercial theatrical release in at least two countries. To qualify as an eligible score, the motion picture for which the score was composed/produced has to receive its world première screening between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017.

Candidates must send (before the deadline Thursday 15th of June 2017):

- a PDF file containing CV and credits
- a digital HR file (mp4 if possible) containing the movie
- mp3 files of your score

to music.office@filmfestival.be (ask for technical details about the film)

- 10 CD’s containing full score (commercial CD’s, no demos)

to the following address:
World Soundtrack Academy – Film Fest Gent

Thomas De Keere
Leeuwstraat 40b
9000 Ghent
Belgium

The material will be distributed among WSA board members who will nominate and elect the winner in this category. All material should be with the Academy no later than June 15th of the voting year. (Material received after that date is excluded from the competition.)

Nominations will be announced at the end of August of the voting year.
For years now it has been a tradition that the winner of the ‘Discovery of the Year’ award performs the following year during the World Soundtrack Awards Gala.
For more information: valerie@filmfestival.be