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BIFSC

Berlin International Film Scoring Competition

BIFSC Awards offers emerging Film Composers the platform to showcase their work and compete to receive multiple awards

IMPORTANT DATES
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Don't miss a deadline

This is your time table for the Berlin International Film Scoring Competition 2025, plan ahead and deliver on time

Registration

15th of October - 15th of December

Early Bird Deadline:

15 October 2024 - 14 November 2024

35 Euros

Regular Deadline:

15 November 2024- 15 December 2024

45 Euros

Film sent to participants

After Registration

Each participant will receive the selected film in high resolution to score the music for the competition. Additionally, the participants will receive 3 Audio Files of Original Sound Design to select from and use with their music. The Sound Design is created by the Winners of the Berlin International Sound Design Competition! 

Deadline day

15th of January 2025
18.00 pm GMT

This is your day. Time to deliver your music on film and celebrate!

Finalists Announced

7th of February 2025

Up to 10 finalists will be announced

1st of March 2025

3 Award Winners will be announced. 

THE FILM

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This is a NO SOUND version of the film.

You will receive the movie and original sound design upon registration. 

In the vastness of space, there's a a small speck of rock inhabited by the most peculiar lifeforms: Dark little dots that start to replicate fast and begin to show signs of intelligence. The film tells the story of the rise and fall of these little creatures. This film is inspired by the special times we're living through on our own planet. We're at the crossroads. The question is what makes humans actually different from bacteria in a petri dish. Surely we have culture, science and art but what does remain of these achievements if you look at our world from a global perspective.

Registration

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REGISTER

Compose a Winning Score

After registration each participant will receive the selected film in high resolution to score the music for the competition. Additionally, the participants will receive 3 Audio Files of Original Sound Design to select from and use with their music. The Sound Design is created by the Winners of the Berlin International Sound Design Competition! 

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DISTINGUISHED JUDGES

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Fredi Devas

Director / Producer

Primetime Emmy nominee Dr. Fredi Devas is a wildlife filmmaker who cares deeply about the natural world and the challenges it faces. Having worked on Meerkat Manor and Nick Baker’s Weird Creatures, he joined the BBC to work on Frozen Planet and then Wild Arabia. On Planet Earth II he decided to leave the wildernesses behind to produce and direct working with composers Hans Zimmer, Jasha Klebe and Jacpob Shea.

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Zach Robinson

Composer

Zach Robinson is Primetime Emmy Winning and Grammy nominated composer and music producer. Zach is most known for co-composing the score to the mega-hit Netflix series Cobra Kai with friend and collaborator Leo Birenberg.  Along with Leo, he most recently scored Weird: The Al Yankovic Story starring Daniel Radcliffe (for which they were nominated for a 2023 Primetime Emmy in Outstanding Music Composition), and the hit Peacock series Twisted Metal and Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin.

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Laura Rossi

Composer

Laura Rossi is a composer with credits including London to Brighton,  BBC Eichmann Show, Song for Marion and Battle of the Somme and Ancre. In 2016-17 one hundred orchestras worldwide performed the score for the Battle of the Somme live with film. Concerts were watched live by over 37,000, performed by 4,200 musicians, and televised live on BBC1 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Laura is a professor in Film Music at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London Film Academy and Trinity Summer School.

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Mihali Paleologou

Composer

Dr. Mihali Palaeologou is an award-winning composer. His music has been performed in Europe, USA, Japan, China and Australia. He is a passionate Film Music educator and conductor.  Mihali teaches Music and Sound for Film at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, is the Artistic Director of the Berlin International Film Scoring and Sound Design Competition and the founder of the Fusion Film Scoring Workshops.

RULES

BIFSC is open to composers of all ages and nationalities. The process is simple: A short film of no longer than 5 minutes in total duration is given to the participants in high resolution. Each composer will have to compose the original music for the film. The composition must be solely original to the composer. A judging panel of renowned professionals from the film industry will review the submissions and vote for up to Ten Finalists and 3 Prize Winners.

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