NEWS: Minnesota Film Score Fest Announces 2023 Selections

The Minnesota Film Score Fest, which presents new short films with a live orchestral accompaniment, has announced the selections for its 2023 season. Sixteen films from filmmakers and composers across the state will be presented on June 10 at the History Theatre in St. Paul.

A uniquely Minnesotan institution, the Film Score Fest does not charge entrance or application fees to filmmakers and composers, more than 200 of whom have participated since its inaugural 2014 season. Originally a collaboration between the MNKINO video-making community, led by Oanh Vu, and the Composer Quest music composition community, led by Charlie McCarron, the festival now operates as a separate entity under the fiscal sponsorship of FilmNorth.

Film Score Fest applicants can apply in teams or for random pairing, often working with a provided prompt or theme from the festival, such as collisions or connections. The completed films and soundtrack demos are submitted to a committee for judging, from which a final set of selections is made for the live premiere with orchestra.

When, Where, How

Saturday, June 10th, 2023

7:00pm – 8:30pm

History Theatre – 30 10th St E, St Paul, MN 55101

Tickets:

https://bit.ly/fsf2023tickets

$20 for reserved seats

Pay-what-you-want seats at the door

Selected Films, Filmmakers, Composers

Abu – Benji Perez Gonzalez, Basil Considine

And Another – Pallav Kumar, Christine Palmer

Curiosity – Seth Grabow, Philip Wels, Benji Inniger

Decision to Love – Mai Moua Thao, Liam Moore

Give And Take Time – Audra Day, Charlie Cohn

If Not Now When – Adam Chau, Mark Okern

Into Focus – Joua Lee Grande

Little Godzilla – Kat Aymeloglu, Emily Boyajian

Macbeth (5.5.22) – Tatjana Dankovic, Ken Takata

Midlife Housing Crisis – Jason P. Schumacher, Josie Just

No Time Like the Present – Larry Wydra, Khary Jackson

Picture Start – Rodney Johnson, Nick Rudnik

Sun Film (Working Title) – Chris Lange, Mitchell Dietz

The Other Side – Kish Daniels, Alexandra Skevington

Time Changes Everything – Isha Moore, Thomas Johnson

Unraveled – Huxley Westemeier

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Amy Donahue is a staff reviewer at the Twin Cities Arts Reader. She interned with the magazine during the summer of 2017, served as a guest contributor while studying abroad in Europe that fall, and has moved up to regular old reviewing. She served as interim Editor-in-Chief in 2023.

She admits to being at least 50% terrified of contemporary German opera.