About Musimagem Festival

The Festival Musimagem Brasil, organized by the Brazilian Association of Composers of Music for Audiovisual – Musimagem, has unveiled the program for its 7th edition, which will be celebrated from August 23 to 29, 2021, broadcast completely for free on our website.
The festival will include workshops, panels, and interviews, with an impressive line-up of composers and film music world professionals, with names such as the following in the program: John Ottman, Craig Safan, Richard Band, Bruce Broughton, Luis Ivars, Ivan Martínez Lacamara, Manel Santisteban, Heitor Pereira, Vivian Aguiar Buff, Marion Lemonier, Diego Navarro, Robert Piaskowski, Marcos Souza, Robert Townson, Mikael Carlsson, Zeh Netto, Alexandre Guerra, Wagner Tiso, Edu Lobo, Felipe Radicetti, Alberto Rosenblit, Antonio Teoli, Rafael Vicole, Fernando Aranha.
Schedule
All the live events will take place in our Conference Hall! Check our schedule and bookmark this page.
We hope you enjoy it!
Monday, August 23rd
08:30pm
Festival Opening
Launching of interactive experiences.
The Board of Directors presents the festival and inaugurates the interactive experiences. Starting this day, the audience will be able to play with the new soundtrack games of the Festival. The Virtual Tour, getting to know the audio creation process of a film, will be accessible to all in a 360º game, touring the studios of audio professionals. The audience will also be able to play with images and the right music in the game ‘The right music for the right scene’.
Friday, August 27th
09:00am
Opening of the Virtual Cinema room
Screenings of short films with music by Musimagem composers, divided into one program per day of the festival.
Each day the viewers will be able to watch films with soundtracks that will be explained beforehand how they were created, bringing the audience even closer to the music as a narrative of the image.
10:00am
Panel with European composers
Ivan Martínez Lacamara (Spain)
Manel Santisteban (Spain)
Luis Ivars (Spain): Moderator
Panel with European composers Ivan Martínez Lacamara (Spain) & Manel Santisteban (Spain), creators of the soundtrack for the TV Series ‘La Casa de Papel/Money Heist’, moderated by Luis Ivars (Spain).
01:00pm
Women in Audiovisual
Vivian Aguiar-Buff (composer, Dreamworks)
Amanda Lopes (www.mulheresaudiovisual.com)
Luíza Alvim (researcher)
Rosane Svartman (director and author)
Marion Lemonier (composer, Globo News): Moderator
Vivian Aguiar Buff (composer, Dreamworks), Amanda Lopes (mulheresaudiovisual.com), Luíza Alvim (researcher), Rosana Svartman (director), moderated by Marion Lemonier (composer, Globo News) will talk about the women in the audiovisual market, both Brazilian and international.
04:00pm
Conference by composer Bruce Broughton (USA)
Zeh Netto and Alexandre Guerra: Moderators
07:00pm
Conference with Brazilian composers
Wagner Tiso
Edu Lobo
Felipe Radicetti: Moderator
08:30pm
Remo Usai Award Ceremony – Sergio Saraceni
Sergio Saraceni is a composer, orchestrator, and music producer, who for forty years was mainly dedicated to creating soundtracks for films, series and soup operas.
Sergio Saraceni dedicated his life to creating soundtracks for more than forty feature films, and dozens of soap operas and series, with emphasis on ‘Anos Dourados’, ‘Roque Santeiro’, ‘A Muralha’, ‘Belíssima’, ‘Nunca fuimos tan felices’, ‘Anchieta José do Brasil’, ‘Al sur de mi cuerpo’, ‘Tienda de los milagros’, among others.
MUSIMÁGICOS CONCERT
Concert with the music of members of Musimagem Brasil.
Saturday, August 28th
10:00am
Workshop: What do you feel when you hear this.
Alberto Rosenblit (composer)
01:00pm
Musical Tracks by Moacir Santos and debate about the book ‘Interviews with Brazilian Composers of Music for Audiovisuals and Dramaturgy’ by Lucas Bonetti.
Lucas Zangirolami Bonetti
This book exposes metanarratives that permeate each of the interviews to form a compendium of how part of the production of soundtracks and musical tracks takes place in Brazil today, as well as pointing to the past, to understand the main changes over the past decades.
04:00pm
Does it still make sense to record soundtrack CDs and LPs?
Robert Townson (Canada),
Mikael Carlsson (Sweden)
Marcos Souza and João Batista Melo: Moderators
With Robert Townson (Canada) – CEO of Robert Townson Productions and former Vice President of Varese Sarabande Records, the world’s oldest soundtrack label still in operation. Mikael Carlsson (Sweden) – Composer and CEO of the Swedish label Moviescore Media, founded in 2006, and specialized in releasing soundtrack albums by European and North American composers. Moderated by Marcos Souza & João Batista Melo.
07:00pm
Thriller, Fantasy, and Horror music in movies
Richard Band (EUA)
Composer of the soundtracks for well over one hundred films in addition to television and interactive games in the most varied genres, many of them for films of the Thriller and Horror genre, such as the soundtracks of the ‘Re-Animator’ franchise, ‘Mutant’, ‘Dragonworld’, ‘Troll’, ‘From Beyond’, ‘Puppet Master’ and multiple episodes of the ‘Stargate SG-1’. Among various awards, Band was nominated for an Emmy for the soundtrack to the series ‘Masters of Horror’.
08:30pm
Four decades of soundtracks for films and series in Hollywood
Craig Safan (EUA)
Composer of a hundred soundtracks, including ‘The Last Starfighter’, ‘Remo Williams, the Adventure Continues’, ‘Thief’, ‘Major Payne’, all seasons of the sitcom ‘Cheers’, and episodes of the series ‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents’, ‘The Twilight Zone’, and ‘Amazing Stories’. He was nominated for an Emmy for the music from the series ‘Life Goes On’.
Sunday, August 29th
10:00am
Film Music Festivals – Past, present, and future.)
Robert Piaskowski (Poland) – Artistic Director and co-founder of Krakow Film Music Festival (Krakow FMF)
Diego Navarro (Spain) – Composer, conductor, and artistic director of the Fimucité festival,
Marcos Souza (Brazil) – Idealizer and general director of Musimagem Brasil Festival.
Gorka Oteiza (Spain) : Moderator – Founder and director of SoundTrackFest
01:00pm
Workshop: Dynamic Game Music Creation
Antonio Teoli
What elements are applicable in the creation of dynamic game music? Composer Antonio Teoli will present the creative process of creating live music, exporting this music in layers, and implementing it in the popular tool Fmod, widely used for dynamic music in games.
04:00pm
Workshop: Heitor Pereira’s Creative Process
Heitor Pereira (Brazil/EUA)
Zeh Netto: Mederator
Two hours inside the studio of the composer of the films Despicable Me, Angry Birds, The Smurfs, and many others. Heitor will show how he works and how he faces the challenges of creating original music for films. Heitor is Brazilian but has lived in the USA for many years and has worked with Hans Zimmer and other Hollywood composers.
07:00pm
Conference with composer John Ottman
John Ottman (EUA)
Composer and editor, he has received an Oscar for Best Editing for ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, based on the life of Freddie Mercury. He is the soundtrack writer for dozens of films, including ‘Fantastic Four’, ‘X-Men 2’, ‘Valkyrie’, ‘The Usual Suspects’, ‘Jack the Giant Slayer’ and ‘Superman Returns’. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for the music in the series ‘Fantasy Island’.
08:30pm
Closing Ceremony – Concert by Orquestra Ouro Preto
Concert with augmented reality insertions, available for free on the Orchestra’s YouTube channel and on the festival’s platform
*Lectures, panels, and round tables will have simultaneous translation into Portuguese or English, with the exception of the round table “European Composers”, which will be translated into Portuguese only.
Movies
Movies will be avaiable from friday - August, 27th until sunday - August, 29th, here in our website.
Check bellow the schedule by room per day, grab your popcorn, call up your friends and have a great movie session!
Friday, August 27th
Room 1
Cartas sobre outra Epidemia
Director:
Karina Souza
Music:
Marcos Souza
Rating:
PG-13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned
Room 2
Histórias da Unha do Dedão do Pé do Fim do Mundo
Director:
Evandro Salles & Marcia Roth
Music:
Tim Rescala
Rating:
G - General Audiences
Ciência em Gotas
Director:
Glauber Gonçalves; Heverton Oliveira, Luisa Massarani, Rodrigo Ferrari
Music:
Marcos Souza
Rating:
G – General Audiences
Room 3
Insônia
Director:
Paulo Mauricio Macedo
Felipe Radicetti
Rating:
G – General Audiences
A vida toda
Paulo Mauricio Macedo
Felipe Radicetti
Rating:
G – General Audiences
Saturday, August 28th
Room 1
Room 2
Ainda Ontem
Rafael de Almeida
Arlam Junior
Rating:
G – General Audiences
Malevich
Evandro Salles & Marcia Roth
Tim Rescala
Rating:
G – General Audiences
Room 3
O Espírito do Bosque
Carla Saavedra Brychcy
Alexandre Guerra
Rating:
PG – Parental Guidance Suggested
Um Ano Novo Danado de Bom
João Batista Melo
João Batista Melo & Patrick DeJongh
Rating:
G – General Audiences
Sunday, August 29th
Room 1
O bebê de tarlatana rosa
Renato Jevoux
Zeh Netto
Rating:
PG-13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned
Room 2
Sobre 2 quadrados
Evandro Salles & Marcia Roth
Tim Rescala
Rating:
G – General Audiences:
As Novas Aventuras do Kaiser
Marcos Magalhães
Rodrigo de Marsillac
Rating:
G – General Audiences
Room 3
Ouça o Filme
Fernando Aranha
Fernando Aranha
Rating:
R – Restricted
Unbreakable Signs
Victor Clin
Fernando Aranha
Rating:
R – Restricted
All Movies will be reproduced in Portuguese, without subtitles.
Movies
Movies will be avaiable from friday - August, 27th until sunday - August, 29th, here in our website.
Check bellow the schedule by room per day, grab your popcorn, call up your friends and have a great movie session!
Friday, August 27th
Room 1

Cartas sobre outra Epidemia
Karina Souza
Marcos Souza
Rating:
PG-13 - Parents Strongly Cautioned
Room 2

Histórias da Unha do Dedão do Pé do Fim do Mundo
Evandro Salles & Marcia Roth
Tim Rescala
Rating:
G - General Audiences

Ciência em Gotas
Glauber Gonçalves; Heverton Oliveira, Luisa Massarani, Rodrigo Ferrari
Marcos Souza
Rating:
G - General Audiences
Room 3

Insônia
Paulo Mauricio Macedo
Felipe Radicetti
Rating:
G - General Audiences

A vida toda
Paulo Mauricio Macedo
Felipe Radicetti
Rating:
G – General Audiences
Saturday, August 28th
Room 1

Ainda Ontem
Rafael de Almeida
Arlam Junior
Rating:
G – General Audiences

Malevich
Evandro Salles & Marcia Roth
Tim Rescala
Rating:
G – General Audiences
Room 3

O Espírito do Bosque
Carla Saavedra Brychcy
Alexandre Guerra
Rating:
PG – Parental Guidance Suggested

Um Ano Novo Danado de Bom
João Batista Melo
João Batista Melo & Patrick DeJongh
Rating:
G - General Audiences
Sunday, August 29th
Room 1

O bebê de tarlatana rosa
Renato Jevoux
Zeh Netto
Rating:
PG-13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned
Room 2

Sobre 2 quadrados
Evandro Salles & Marcia Roth
Tim Rescala
Rating:
G - General Audiences

As Novas Aventuras do Kaiser
Marcos Magalhães
Rodrigo de Marsillac
Rating:
G - General Audiences
Room 3

Ouça o Filme
Fernando Aranha
Fernando Aranha
Rating:
R – Restricted

Unbreakable Signs
Victor Clin
Fernando Aranha
Rating:
R – Restricted
All movies will be reproduced in Portuguese, without subtitles.
Games (Coming Soon)


Courses
WHAT IS A SOUNDTRACK?
10:00 – 12:30 am

Professor: Felipe Radicetti
MUSICAL TECHNOLOGY
10:00 – 12:00 am

Professor: Rafael Vicole
SOUND DESIGN
August, 25th
10:00 – 12:00 am

Professor: Fernando Aranha
MOVIES PROPER SOUNDTRACKS
10:00 – 12:00 am

Professor: Alexandre Guerrra
*All courses will be in Portuguese, without any translations into other languages.

