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Generation Growth
Documentary, 2020
Directed by: Mu Sun* Audience Choice Award – Heartland International Film Festival
* Winner: Global Health Compeition: Cleveland International Film FestivalBronx educator Stephen Ritz is on a mission: to change the health and educational outcomes in low-income areas. Generation Growth explores his incredibly successful indoor gardening curriculum, which is bringing hope, health, and opportunities to communities across America.
Gavin’s score for the film blends a wide array of musical styles, from funk to hip-hop to bluegrass. Visit the official site here.
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What Lies Below
Sci-Fi Thriller, 2020
Directed by: Braden DuemmlerA 16 year-old girl returns home from camp to learn her mother has a new boyfriend – a man whose charm, intelligence, and beauty make him seem like he’s not human at all.
What Lies Below stars Mena Suvari (American Beauty) and Ema Horvath (The Lord of the Rings). Gavin’s score for the film employs a unique blend of synthetic and acoustic instruments, including a custom palette of instruments submerged in water.
Soundtrack available from MovieScore Media and on all streaming services.
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Blindspot
Action / Mystery, 2017-2020
Network: NBC
Additional MusicA mysterious woman is found naked in a travel bag in Times Square, her body covered in a series of coded tattoos. As “Jane Doe” and the FBI team who discover her work to decipher and investigate the complex treasure map of her body, an ever-widening web of conspiracy and corruption is revealed.
Gavin composed additional music for Seasons 3-5 of Blindspot, scored by composers Blake Neely and Sherri Chung.
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In The Life Of Music
Drama, 2018
Directed by: Caylee So, Sok Visal* Official Selection of Cambodia for Best International Feature Film – 92nd Academy Awards
* Best Narrative Feature: Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival
* Best Picture: Winter Film Awards
An intergenerational tale that explores love, war, and a family’s relationship to the song “Champa Battambang”, made famous by Sinn Sisamouth, the King of Cambodian Music.
Soundtrack available on all major streaming services. Visit the film’s official website here.
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Sing For Your Supper
Musical, 2016
Directed by: Mu Sun* Nominee – Best Original Music for Short Film: International Music and Sound Awards
* Nominee – Best Score: FilmQuest Festival
Under a totalitarian government in which the only method of currency is song, people must sing well to be able to eat. Our hero Glen, unfortunately, has come down with a case of laryngitis, and must discover his voice if he is ever to eat again.
Sing For Your Supper features a gypsy jazz score and songs. Gavin composed both music and lyrics, in collaboration with composer Sherri Chung. Visit the official website here!
Magda
Documentary, 2015
Directed by: Jason Rem* Finalist: Hollywood Film Festival
When she was only 17 years old, Magdalena Kasprzycki joined the Polish Underground. She helped to spy on the Nazis during World War II, often at great risk. The film Magda chronicles the life of this courageous woman – a story of war, peace, love, and family.
The score to Magda was recorded in Los Angeles with a live string orchestra. Click here to view the film on Amazon Prime.
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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Action-Adventure, 2014-2017
Produced by: Marvel / ABC
Additional MusicWith a rising tide of powered individuals and enhanced threats, the world has become more dangerous and bizarre than ever before. In response to the increased menace, Phil Coulson assembles an elite, covert team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to find and deal with these threats, wherever they are found.
Gavin composed additional music for the first four seasons of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, as part of the scoring team of Emmy-winning composer Bear McCreary. The score features a live orchestra of Hollywood’s top session musicians.
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Unchained
Steampunk Adventure Game, 2011
Xbox 360In the world of Unchained, cities are separated by vast expanses of open sky. Airships have become the primary transport of the modern age, ferrying people and goods along dangerous trade routes. As commander of the airship Alethea, you must overcome deadly pirates and rival adventurers, as you struggle to climb from poverty to affluence – a journey that will take you to the edge of the world.
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Call of Duty: MW3
First Person Shooter, 2011
Developed by: Infinity Ward / Sledgehammer Games
Published by: Activision
Musical ArrangementsModern Warfare 3 continues the intense, near-future conflict of the immensely popular Call of Duty series. Players engage enemy forces in Paris, Berlin, Dubai, and several other sites around the globe. Gavin created musical arrangements for the soundtrack, composed by Brian Tyler (Iron Man 3, The Expendables).
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