SCL Screening + Q&A: BEYOND THE NOTES

Composers & Songwriters

MARK EVITTS

JEANNIE LURIE

TOVA LITVIN & DOUG ROCKWELL

RYAN SHORE

MATTHEW TISHLER

AMRITHA VAZ

MODERATED BY KAYA SAVAS

(Film.Music.Media)

The Landmark Westwood

1045 Broxton Ave.

Los Angeles, CA 90024

Tuesday, September 12, 7:00PM PT

Please be mindful of the SCL's Code of Conduct.

Frog & Toad (Mark Evitts): Follows two amphibian friends striving to balance the great outdoors and home pleasure, as they are thrown from one optimistic adventure to another. TV-Y | 25mins

Mira, Royal Detective (Jeannie Lurie, Matthew Tishler, Amritha Vaz): A brave, resourceful girl becomes a royal detective in India after solving a mystery that saved the kingdom's young prince. TV-Y7 | 24mins

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (Tova Litvin & Doug Rockwell): The students from the school where the High School Musical films were shot stage a musical production based on the franchise. TV-PG | 31mins

Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! (Ryan Shore): With Coco and kitty in prison, Mystery Inc. thinks that they can finally enjoy a break. G | 72mins

Mark Evitts is an accomplished American composer, songwriter, musician, and producer working across the television, film, and music industries. Most recently, Mark served as composer and songwriter for the new Apple TV+ animated series Frog and Toad, based on the best-selling children’s book. The score features a memorable musical palette highlighted by Dixieland banjos and fiddles, alongside swing clarinets and Hot Club guitar. Mark’s songwriting credits include co-writing Nas' single "Brunch on Sundays,” which he also performed on, from the Grammy-nominated album King's Disease II and The Game's single "Violence."

In addition to his songwriting and composing work, Mark has served as an arranger and musician on several hit television shows such as NBC's SMASH, notably on Emmy-nominated song "Voice In A Dream.” Other projects he has contributed to creatively include ABC’s The Bachelor and Blood and Oil, CMT’s Nashville, BBC One's documentary Love In A Day, and SVT's award-winning documentary series Jill's Veranda. He has also contributed additional music to the score of the Netflix feature Arlo the Alligator Boy for composer Alex Geringas. Mark has developed a unique sound that he incorporates into his own projects and has provided samples of these authentic sounds to create music software and virtual instrument companies like Output's Arcade.

Jeannie Lurie is an Emmy, Annie, and Critics’ Choice Award-nominated songwriter. For nearly two decades, her songs have appeared in live-action and animated projects for Disney, DreamWorks, Nickelodeon, and more. Recent credits include Disney Junior’s Mira Royal Detective (co-series songwriter), Monster High, Snow Day, The J-Team (co-Executive Music Producer), High School Musical the Musical the Series, and The Muppets Mayhem.

Jeannie’s songs have appeared extensively in Disney movies and television series including Hannah Montana, Teen Beach Movie, Lemonade Mouth, The Muppets, Descendants, Shake It Up, Good Luck Charlie, Austin and Ally, and Sonny with a Chance. A fan of theme songs, Jeannie has 20+ main titles currently airing/streaming. Jeannie is originally from Chicago, IL, and studied English at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Spanish at Middlebury College in Vermont and Madrid.

Tova Litvin and Doug Rockwell are an Emmy-nominated songwriting and production team based in Los Angeles, CA. Their work on Kenny Ortega’s Julie and the Phantoms became a Netflix Top 10 series in 2020 and hit #4 on the Billboard charts, as well the #1 spot on the iTunes main and soundtrack charts in the USA. Recently, their song “The Other Side of Hollywood,” performed by Cheyenne Jackson, was nominated for Outstanding Original Song in the 48th Daytime Emmy Awards. Other notable credits include the Marvel Rising franchise, “Born to Be Brave", sung by Olivia Rodrigo in High School Musical: The Musical; The Series, Disney +’s live-action musical Sneakerella, and “Flesh and Bone” -- the breakout song from Zombies 2, which garnered over 150 million streams in less than 6 months.

Collectively they have written for other notable names such as Dove Cameron, Sofia Wylie, Olivia Sanabia, Asher Angel, Haley & Michaels, Laidback Luke, and New Hope Club. International credits include 7 top tens in the Japanese and Korean markets, including #1 and #2 records with artists such as Miwa, Super Junior D&E, and Little Glee Monster. Their recognition also includes an ASCAP Screen Music Award as well as a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for their work on The Loud House series. Rockwell & Litvin continue to write for curated film and television projects and are developing an original musical, as well as an original musical feature film.

Ryan Shore is a 3x Emmy® Award and Grammy® Award Nominated composer, songwriter, music producer, music director, and conductor for film, television, virtual reality, games, records, concerts, live events, and theater. He is best known for his scores for numerous Star Wars animated series, Scooby-Doo! films, The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo, and Go! Go! Cory Carson. Shore was Assistant Music Director and Contributing Composer / Arranger / Orchestrator for the 87th Academy Awards, where he worked with artists including Lady Gaga, John Legend, Adam Levine, Anna Kendrick, Common, Tim McGraw, Jack Black, Neil Patrick Harris, and Jennifer Hudson.

Shore’s 100+ scoring credits include the Lin-Manuel Miranda movie musical In The Heights (Warner Bros, additional music), Star Wars: Forces of Destiny (Lucasfilm), The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo (HBO Max), Love In The Villa (Netflix), Trick or Treat, Scooby-Doo! (Warner Bros), Honey Girls (Sony), Love, Guaranteed (Netflix), score and songs for Go! Go! Cory Carson (Netflix), Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures (Lucasfilm), Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures Fun Facts (Lucasfilm), Julie’s Greenroom (Netflix) starring Julie Andrews with all-new Jim Henson Puppets, Scooby-Doo! Wrestle Mania Mystery (Warner Bros), Scooby-Doo! And WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon (Warner Bros), score and songs for Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero (Disney), Tiny Christmas (Nickelodeon), R.L. Stine’s Monsterville: Cabinet of Souls (Universal), score and songs for The Legend of Muay Thai: 9 SATRA (ExFormat), SpyHunter (Warner Bros), Prime (Universal), Harvard Man (Lionsgate), Cabin Fever 2 (Lions Gate), score and songs for Sesame Street (PBS), and The X Factor (FOX).

Matthew Tishler is an Emmy- and Annie Award-nominated, 25x multi-platinum songwriter and music producer, with a specialty in K-Pop, J-Pop, and family entertainment for film and television. His songs have been featured in hit TV shows, movies, theme parks, and dozens of #1 albums around the world. Matthew has written and/or produced hundreds of songs for Disney, Nickelodeon, Netflix, Dreamworks and beyond, including music for High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Descendants 3, Zombies, Teen Beach 2, Freaky Friday, Lemonade Mouth, Shake It Up, Austin & Ally, Liv & Maddie, and multiple songs performed by Ashley Tisdale in High School Musical spin-off Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure. He produced the platinum-certified, breakout hit “All I Want” by Olivia Rodrigo. Continuing his long-standing collaboration with JoJo Siwa, Matthew co-wrote and produced all original songs for her Nickelodeon/Awesomeness live-action musical, The J Team, also serving as Executive Music Producer. He was a music producer on the finale of Pasek & Paul’s movie musical Lyle, Lyle Crocodile performed by Shawn Mendes. He co-wrote and produced the theme song “Take On The World” for Girl Meets World, the enormously successful spinoff of 90’s favorite Boy Meets World. For Disney Television Animation, Matthew has produced and co-written the original songs for Disney Junior’s Fancy Nancy, an animated musical series based on the best-selling books of the same name. Matthew also writes and produces the original songs for Disney Junior’s MIRA, Royal Detective, original songs and underscore for the upcoming Hailey's On It, and the Mickey Mornings series of interstitials featuring Mickey Mouse himself! Matthew’s additional credits include over 25 original songs for the animated pre-school series Blaze And The Monster Machines, for which the music team was nominated for a 2018 Daytime Emmy Award.

Amritha Vaz was a human rights attorney, which is adriving force behind her desire to help tell stories with purpose. She then started her composer journey working for Academy Award-winning composer Mychael Danna on 500 Days of Summer. They have since collaborated on several films, including co-composing the forthcoming drama, Couple of Heaven.

On her own Amritha was nominated for an ASCAP Composer's Choice Award and two Annie Awards for her work on Disney’s animated series Mira, Royal Detective. Her other credits include an episode of AppleTV’s Emmy-nominated series Home and Angel Dose with Emmy-nominated director Sami Khan. Her other score work has been featured at festivals worldwide including TIFF, Sundance & HotDocs. An ardent voice committed to equality and inclusion in the film music community, Amritha is an alumna of the prestigious Sundance Composer Lab, a board member of the Screen Composers Guild of Canada, and serves as Co-President of the Composers Diversity Collective, which was founded by Michael Abels.

*** SCREENING + Q&A INFORMATION ***

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1045 Broxton Ave.

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