MUSIC MEETS VISION AT BMI MUSIC & FILM PANEL AT 2006 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
Composer/Director Roundtable to Feature BMI Composers Aaron Zigman, Stewart Copeland and Terence Blanchard, Directors Nick Cassavete, Haskell Wexler and Others

BMI, the U.S. performing rights organization representing more than 300,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers, will present its sixth annual Composer/Director Roundtable during the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Entitled "Music & Film: The Creative Process," the panel will be held on Wednesday, January 25 from 11am to 1pm at the Sundance House at the Kimball Art Center (638 Park Avenue). The panel is open to festival badge and ticket holders. Tickets are available at http://www.sundance.org and at Sundance Film Festival ticket offices.

The 2006 Sundance Film Festival takes place January 19-28 in Park City, Utah. BMI has been an ongoing supporter of the film music program at the Festival as well as at the Sundance Composers Lab held each summer at the Institute. For more information on BMI events at Sundance as well as on-site coverage of the Festival, please visit this site during the event.

This year's roundtable will be moderated by BMI's Vice President of Film/TV Relations, Doreen Ringer Ross, and will feature composers Aaron Zigman (Alpha Dog), David Kitay (The Darwin Awards), Stewart Copeland (composer/screenwriter/director Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out, Rumblefish), Peter Golub (composer/director Wordplay, Sundance Composers Lab), Mychael Danna (Little Miss Sunshine, Capote), Craig Richey (Friends With Money), David Julyan (The Descent), Anthony Marinelli (Dreamland) and Terence Blanchard (Mo' Better Blues, The 25th Hour, Sundance Composers Lab Advisor), and directors Nick Cassavetes (Alpha Dog), Finn Taylor (director/screenwriter The Darwin Awards), Patrick Creadon (Wordplay), Neil Marshall (director/screenwriter The Descent), Jason Matzner (Dreamland), and Haskell Wexler (director/cinematographer Who Needs Sleep?).

The panel will focus on the role music (both score and source) plays in film, the composer/director relationship, the growing role of documentaries and the art of scoring for that medium, as well as budgets and creative expansion of the form.

Now marking its 65th year in business, BMI is an American performing rights organization that represents more than 300,000 songwriters, composers and publishers in all genres of music. With a repertoire of more than 6.5 million musical works from around the world, the non-profit-making corporation collects license fees from businesses that use music, which it then distributes as royalties to the musical creators and copyright owners it represents.