Zeltia Montes
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In Episode 4, director Olly Blackburn discusses creative process, collaboration, and the fusion of music and film with composer Zeltia Montes.
Goya-award winning composer of The Good Boss, Sad Hill Unearthed, and A Delicate Balance, Zeltia Montes composes music for film, TV and documentaries but is also passionate about songwriting, concert music, electronic music production and sound design experiments. Her music has been recognized by the International Film Music Critics Association with a nomination for Breakout Composer of the Year 2012, by the Catalan Academy with a Gaudi Award nomination in 2014, by the Galician Academy with a Mestre Mateo Award in 2014 and 2 other nominations in 2008 and 2011, and by the Hollywood Music in Media Awards with 3 nominations in 2009 and in 2011. She has also won awards in many international festivals such as the New York City International Film Festival, Park City Film Music Festival, Garden State Film Festival, Moondance International Film Festival, Telly Awards, as well as numerous nominations to the Goldspirit Awards and “Mundo BSO Awards”.
Zeltia’s film credits include the scores to the feature documentary Sad Hill Unearthed (2017, Tokyo International Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, BAFICI, Sitges Film Festival) starring Clint Eastwood, Ennio Morricone and Joe Dante, the 2016 Spanish Academy Award ‘Goya’ winning documentary Frágil Equilibrio (Delicate Balance) starring the Ex-President of Uruguay Jose Mujica, the feature films Traces of Sandalwood (2014, Audience Award winner at the Montreal International Film Festival and Goya Award nominated) directed by Maria Ripoll, A Esmorga (2014, Goya Award nominated), Vilamor (2012), Film Commission Award at San Sebastian International Film Festival) and Pradolongo (2008) all from Spanish director Ignacio Vilar, the 3D animation feature film The Nutcrackers (2010, Gaudi Award winner for Best Animated Feature and Goya Award nominated) directed by Alex Colls and the short film Henley (2012, Sundance Film Festival) directed by Craig Macneilll. For TV she has scored the documentary Still Dreaming for PBS, the main title music for the TV Series El Camino del Cid and Miguel Hernandez, both for Spanish National Television (TVE) and is currently scoring the documentary TV series Atlánticas directed by Guillermo García López and Pedro González Kühn.
Olly Blackburn is an award-winning film director and screenwriter. He trained as an historian and after spending time as a journalist and copywriter found himself working in feature films, television and commercials. His films have played at major festivals including Telluride, Sundance, Edinburgh, Austin and London. In TV drama Olly’s work ranges from tough contemporary thrillers like Amazon’s The Widow and StartUp, to the human drama of Jack Thorne’s Glue and period pieces like Victoria and Andrew Davies’ adapatation of Jane Austen’s Sanditon.
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