BIFSC
Berlin International Film Scoring Competition
BIFSC offers emerging Film Composers the platform to showcase their work and compete to receive multiple Awards worth of over 3500 Euros, participate in Film Scoring Workshops and have their music recorded by a live ensemble, be invited in Film Festivals with VIP accreditation.
Distinguished Jury In BIFSC Competitions
Over the years, BIFSC Competitions have featured diverse and immensely talented juries. The esteemed panel for each competition is announced annually on our website,
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.
Sherri Chung
Composer
Two-time Emmy® nominated composer Sherri Chung has been recognized internationally as a trailblazer in the world of film and television scoring. Her music transcends genre and fuses inspirations—both traditional and emerging—in
support of filmmakers’ visions worldwide.
Sherri recently composed the score for HBO Max/Amblin’s animated series Gremlins: The Wild Batch. Previously, she scored Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai (Season1), for which she was nominated for an Emmy® for Best Music Direction And Composition for An Animated Program. Peacock original series Based on a True Story, gave Sherri her second Emmy® nomination for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score).
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.
Laura Rossi
Composer
Laura Rossi is a composer for film, television and concert music. Credits include London to Brighton, The Cottage, BBC Eichmann Show, Song for Marion, Hurricane 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.
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.
Lesley Jackson
Composer Agent
Lesley established UK Film Music in March 2019 following several years representing and managing prominent and award-winning composers from the UK and mainland Europe. With a career history including international marketing and the Visual Arts, Lesley is keen to bring a different approach to representation.
Nathan Barr
Composer
Emmy-winning composer Nathan Barr has received critical acclaim for his unmatched versatility, incorporating eclectic instruments from musical cultures across the world.
His recent projects include The House with a Clock in its Walls, Amazon Studios’/Legendary Television’s Carnival Row, starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne, Hulu's The Great, and the Netflix series Hollywood,
photo credits: Emily Sandifer
Ariel Marx
Composer
Ariel Marx is an Emmy-nominated composer and multi-instrumentalist, known for her eclectic and inventive scores for film and television. Some of her recent projects include National Geographic’s A Small Light , Peacock’s A Friend of the Family, Hulu’s Candy (ranked number 3 in Indiewire’s Best TV scores of 2022), Netflix’s Black Mirror, and FX/Hulu’s American Horror Stories
Constantin Kormann
3D Artist
Constantin is a 3D Artist and Supervisor working in the advertisement industry. Past clients include AUDI, Canyon, Daimler or TOMRA. He also teaches at Macromedia University in Cologne, where he graduated himself. Additionally, he works on personal projects such as the "Hired Steel" series.
Steve Fanagan
Sound Designer - Rerecording Mixer
Steve Fanagan (MPSE, CAS) is a BAFTA (Normal People) and EMMY-nominated (Game Of Thrones) sound designer, supervising sound editor, and re-recording mixer who has worked on a broad spectrum of projects across film and television. In 2011 he won an MPSE Golden Reel Award for his work on series 1 of Game Of Thrones. In 2016, he was nominated for an HPA Award (Hollywood Professional Association), an International Music+Sound Award and an MPSE Golden Reel Award for his work on Lenny Abrahamson's Oscar®-nominated drama, Room.
Peter Albrechtsen
Sound Designer
Mixer, Music Supervisor
Peter Albrechtsen is an award-winning Danish sound designer and re-recording mixer. Recent credits include Evil Dead Rise, The Cave and The Killing of Two Lovers, The Distant Barking of Dogs, and sound effects recording for Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk. A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2017. Peter also works as a music supervisor and has collaborated with internationally acclaimed musicians like Jóhann Jóhannsson, Antony Hegarty, and Efterklang.
Ali Tocher
Audio Designer
A 2020 BAFTA Breakthrough Participant, Ali is the Lead Audio Designer at Bonsai Collective, a UK games studio. Specializing in making bespoke soundscapes with non-traditional techniques, Ali's career in sound has seen him work in games, medical applications, film, TV, live broadcast, advertising, Virtual Reality, live music, and contemporary art installations.
Bo Li
Sound Designer
Bo LI is an award-winning Sound Designer. He created the Sound Design for the Oscar Student Academy Awards Gold Medal winning animation film Unforgotten. Bo Li is a Prize Winner of the Berlin International Sound Design Competition 2019. Currently he is a Sound Design Clinical Assistant Professor at the Arizona State University. He also works as a sound designer for theme parks, museums, art installations, live theater productions, and cinema at Earsup Sound Design in California.
Tim Harrison
Sound Designer
He began his career in 2004, co-founding narrative audio company Aumeta. In 2009 he designed his first feature film, Sus, with the next years seeing him work alongside Ai Weiwei on Sunflower Seeds (2010) and with Damon Albarn on The Boy in the Oak (2012). Recent years have seen him work on Black Mirror (2018), Censor (2021) and Flux Gourmet (2022), which won Best Sound at the British Independent Film Awards.
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His book ‘Sound Design for Film’ was published in 2021 by The Crowood Press.