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    Score a Score adds Benjamin Santoro

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    LOS ANGELES --

    Benjamin Santoro, previously a freelance composer and touring musician who worked on campaigns for Coca-Cola, Gillette, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Toyota and more, as well as the Netflix series Fearless, has joined the Score a Score team, working out of its Boston office as a creative manager. 

    Headquartered in Los Angeles, Score a Score specializes in creating and licensing original music, sound design and voiceover for all forms of media, including ads, promos, trailers, branded content, film, TV and media games.

    Santoro will work alongside founder/CEO Jordan Passman, COO Jake Weinreb, director of business affairs Jacy Skeen and creative managers Cian Favat and Marchese Taylor. Santoro will be focusing on creative initiatives and development, as well as the growth and expansion of the overall business, which connects top-tier composers and their music with content producers.

    “I’ve worked with the team at Score a Score for years as a composer and couldn’t be more excited to join them in this new role. The company is growing fast and I’m thrilled to be working alongside such talented and hard-working people.” said Santoro.

    Score a Score is closing out 2017 as another record breaking year, working on a higher-volume of projects than ever. Some of its recent work includes projects for Google, Verizon, Microsoft, Taco Bell, Coca Cola, Gap and BMW, and trailers for titles such as Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Red Sparrow, Early Man, Murder on the Orient Express and The Commuter.

    The team is also active on the music supervision side, working on upcoming series for TBS, Netflix, Amazon, YouTubeRed and Facebook.




    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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