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DAVID MAJZLIN: BIO

David Majzlin's film credits include Stille, (Winner - Best Score - Avignon Film Festival), Being Reel, (Winner - Grand Prize - Project Greenlight / Coca-Cola® Refreshing Filmmaker Competition), Herb and Dorothy, (Winner - Audience Award - Silverdocs, Hamptons Film Fest), Virgin Larry (Winner - Coen Brothers Audience Award - Brooklyn International Film Festival), Youth Knows No Pain (HBO Films), and Sins Of My Father (Sundance FF., HBO Films).

He also wrote additional music for Sunshine Cleaning (Nomination - Grand Jury Prize - Sundance Film Festival) - starring Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, and Alan Arkin, and source music for The Ghost Writer (dir., Roman Polanski, starring Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Catrall), All Good Things (dir., Andrew Jarecki, starring Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella), and The Joneses (starring Demi Moore, David Duchovny, and Lauren Hutton).

His music has appeared in numerous television projects and promos including Ugly Betty, CSI, The Cleaner, The Ghost Whisperer, Greys Anatomy, The Tony Awards, CNN, Desperate Housewives, and 60 Minutes. David's commercial compositions have earned him a Telly, Caddy, and finalist placements for the First London International Advertising Awards and the International Monitor Awards.

Theater credits include Manigma (starring Michael Aronov), Lily: Her Life, His Music (DiCapo Opera Theater) starring mezzo-soprano, Audrey Babcock, and The Winter's Tale with Omar Metwally (Miral, Munich), a rock musical produced for The Rude Mechanicals Theater Company.

David has also worked with choreographers, Laura Gorenstein Miller (Helios Dance Company), Sasha Spielvogel (Labyrinth Dance Theater), and artists Lou Reed, Fernando Saunders, Paul Cantelon, and Daisy Jopling (Triology).



FILM CREDITS
LONG WAY HOME: THE LOVING STORY
HBO Documentary Films
World Premier: Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival


HBO Films, Augusta Films, Elisabeth Haviland James, prods.
Nancy Buirski, dir.

THE LOOP
(upcoming)
Starring Rachel Nichols, Jackson Hurt, Linda Emond, Buck Henry

Tashtego Films, Warren Spector, Steven Tabakin, Raine Hall, prods.
Margaret Whitton, dir.

SINS OF MY FATHER
HBO Documentary Films
Sundance Film Festival
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)

HBO, Renegade Pictures, Arte/ZDF, RCN, National Geographic, prods.
Nicolas Entel, dir.

SUNSHINE CLEANING (*additional music)
Big Beach Films
Starring
Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin
Nomination: Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival

Peter Saraf, Big Beach Films, prods.
Christine Jeffs, dir.

YOUTH KNOWS NO PAIN
HBO Documentary Films
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
Cinevegas Film Festival

HBO, Open Pictures, Linda Chiu, Sara Bernstein, Sheila Nevins, prods.
Mitch McCabe, dir.

THE GHOST WRITER (*source music)
Starring Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Williams

Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde, prods.
Roman Polanski, dir.

ALL GOOD THINGS (*source music)
(upcoming)
Starring Ryan Gosling, Kirstin Dunst, Frank Langella
The Weinstein Company

Michael London, Bruna Papandrea, prods.
Andrew Jarecki, dir.

THE JONESES (*source music)
(upcoming)
Starring Demi Moore, David Duchovy
Echo Lake Entertainment

David Rogers, Adam Betteridge, prods.
Derrick Borte, dir.

ASYLUM SEEKERS
Shoreline Entertainment
Gill Holland, Molly Conners, Off Hollywood, Crowned Heart, Kinetic Arts, prods.
Rania Ajami, dir.

NATURALLY OBSESSED
ParnassusWorks Films
ParnassusWorks, prod.
Carole Rifkind, dir.

STILLE
Winner - Best Score - Avignon Film Festival

First Gaze Films, prod.
Susan Schwartzwald, dir.

HERB AND DOROTHY
Winner - Audience Award - Silverdocs Film Festival
Winner - Audience Award - Hamptons International Film Festival

Winner - Golden Starfish - Hamptons International Film Festival

Fine Line Media / MUSE Film and Television, prods.
Megumi Sasaki, dir.

BEING REEL
Winner - Grand Prize - Project Greenlight / Coca-Cola® Refreshing Filmmaker Competition

Steven Sole, prod.
Brett Levner, dir.

HAPPILY EVER AFTER
Winner - Best Experimental Film - Rhode Island Int'l Film Festival
Winner - Most Original Concept - Seattle True Independent Film Festival
Winner - Gold Award - WorldFest, Houston

Gary Cohen, prod.
Lidia Sheinin, dir.

SCALLOP POND
Rhode Island International Film Festival
Gill Ferrer / CGF Films, prod.
Carlos Ferrer, dir.

EARL & PUPPY
Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival
Rhode Island International Film Festival

Sweetwater Films, prod.
Jeff Seymann, dir.

VIRGIN LARRY
Winner - Brooklyn International Film Festival:
Coen Brothers Award, Audience Award

Pescador Productions, prod.
Tim and Tom Leupp, dirs.

THE LUCKY ONE
Angelus Film Festival

Brett Levner, dir.

RUMPY
Slamdance Festival, Magnolia Festival
NY Independent Film Festival
Edmonton Int'l Film Festival

Corrosive Pictures, prod.
Lauren Timmons, dir.

THE ARAB
European Independent Film Festival
Salento International Film Festival

Boris Wexler, dir.

EXCUSES, EXCUSES
Nominee - Student Academy Award®

Lauren Timmons, prod.
Christopher Timmons, dir.

SUEñOS
Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival
Selected Film - IFP Media Lab

Rio Puertollano, dir.

GETAP!
Rhode Island International Film Festival

Kosuke Furukawa, dir.


PARANORMAL
Winner - Best Horror Short -
DragonCon International Film Festival

Corrosive Pictures, prod.
Lauren Timmons, dir.

DARK ANGEL

Labyrinth Dance Theater, prod.
Sasha Spielvogel, dir.



TRAILERS, TELEVISION, AND PROMOS
IS ANYBODY THERE? (starring Michael Caine)
Big Beach, Heyday Films, BBC Films
THE CLEANER (source music)
A&E Network
AFI SALUTES
USA Network
CSI CBS
THE GHOST WHISPERER CBS
GREYS ANATOMY ABC
UGLY BETTY ABC
BOSTON LEGAL ABC
20/20 ABC
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES ABC
MEDIUM NBC
THE TODAY SHOW NBC
LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN CBS
THE TONY AWARDS American Theater Wing


THEATER AND DANCE
BEAUTIFUL MONSTERS Helios Dance Theater ; Laura Gorenstein Miller, dir.
MANIGMA Process Group Theater Co., Great Scott Films / Starring Michael Aronov
LILY Dicapo Opera, NYC
NO WAY OUT BUT THROUGH Labyrinth Dance Theater ; Sasha Spielvogel, dir.
NOOR
Labyrinth Dance Theater ; Sasha Spielvogel, dir.
THE WINTER'S TALE Rude Mechanicals Theater Company, NYC
A MOUTHFUL OF BIRDS Rude Mechanicals Theater Company, NYC
THE BACCHAE 2.1 Rude Mechanicals Theater Company, NYC
WISH Rude Mechanicals Theater Company, NYC
ENDGAME Rude Mechanicals Theater Company, NYC