Pandemic – Radio Drama, directed by John Dryden Music by Sacha Puttnam.
On Air February 2012.
A three part radio drama set around a devastating worldwide pandemic. Written and directed by John Dryden it is being made in Thailand and the UK.
December at Mark Knopfler’s British Grove Studios for the first of three recording sessions. The hit- filled track list is sheduled for May 2012 release. More to follow…
Elizabeth Mahoney Sunday 1st January 2012
While last week’s excellent adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities remained faithful to the original dramatic core, Ayeesha Menon’s transformation of Martin Chuzzlewit into The Mumbai Chuzzlewits(Classic Serial, Radio 4, Saturday) takes the core and boldly relocates it to contemporary India.
What strikes you, though, apart from the odd reference to mobile phones and debit cards, is how smoothly the key elements of family, greed and betrayal translate. Chuzzlewit (Roshan Seth) remains a paranoid old control freak with a nasty turn of phrase. “You’re a stupid idiot who should’ve died years ago choking on your stupidity,” is a typical outburst. Far-flung family members still flock to be near Chuzzlewit when they think he’s dying and they might get a share of his fortune; the scene in which they hear he is recovering was a delight. And modern-day Mumbai is as obsessed with status, social hierarchy and making money as Victorian Britain ever was.
The production’s soundscape is one of the highlights, with a real immediacy from the first moment, which begins with the squawk of something exotic. Sound recordings on location give this version of Dickens a rich and vivid texture that matches Menon’s crisp, involving writing. It’s the sort of adaptation that makes you want to re-read the original while enjoying its ingenious difference.
Cinemastone Productions
Composer Sacha Puttnam
Directed by Jordan Stone
“Irwin & Fran” is a feature length film shot in New York City in late 2009 and 2011, it is a film about the Prof. Irwin Corey and his wife of over 70 years, Fran. Irwin is 98 years old and started in show business in 1938. He is a famous stand up comedian and political satirist and has appeared on Broadway, in Hollywood films and Television since the 1940′s.
http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi3830618393
In Production 2011
Broadcast as three 60 minute dramas on BBC Radio 4 on 1st, 8th and 15th January 2011
At the end of this year, to mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birth in 2012, BBC Radio 4 presents two new Dickens adaptations – A Tale Of Two Cities, produced by Jeremy Mortimer for the BBC, and Martin Chuzzlewit recorded in Bombay and produced by John Dryden/Goldhawk Essential.
It’s the fourth major radio production Goldhawk has made in India (after A SUITABLE BOY, Q&A and SIX SUSPECTS) and all the action is to be recorded on locations in a documentary style.
The cast includes, Roshan Seth, Rajit Kapur, Radihika Mital, Shernaz Patel,Karan Pandit, Zafar Karachiwala, Ayeesha Menon, Preetika Chawla, Sohrab Ardeshir, Nadir Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Rohit Malkani, Arghya Lahiri and Vivek Madan. The director is John Dryden.
Heroes of Ruin 3D in Production 2011. Produced by Square Enix & N-Space.
Cinematic game for the Nintendo 3D.
Best RPG at E3.
‘When it comes to the music of Heroes of Ruin, the team were very much aware of the importance of creating an appropriate atmosphere through sound. Perhaps it was unsurprising that in searching for someone that could deliver a soundtrack with both subtlety and power they found their way to Sacha Puttnam.’ Square Enix
In Production 2011. Northern Media Productions. Directed by Phil Shotton and Dawn Furness, Producer Tom Harvey, Composer Sacha Puttnam.
Hybrid vigour!
A 90-piece Russian orchestra doing techno? Matthew Sweet has heard the future of house, and breakbeat, and classical music, too.
‘From the BAFTA and EMMY Award winning Journalist and fim maker.’
Documentary-maker John Pilger on the grotesque untruth of “weapons of mass destruction” and the cowardliness of the mainstream media taking the official lineIn Cinemas 13th December 2010. On ITV1 14th December 2010.
Dartmouth Films/ITV.
Director: John Pilger, Composer: Sacha Puttnam.
‘To find true love, you must open but one eye. To keep it, you must close both.’
Crossroads Films. Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Anna Chancellor, Sebastian Street, Composer Sacha Puttnam, Director Dan Nathan.
"Sacha Puttnam's beautiful, often haunting music for my film The War You Don't See gives it such subtle power. By their very nature, documentaries tend to crowd out music, yet never have I had such compliments about original music in one of my films. Sacha's music has a political passion that is humane in every note."
"Sacha Puttnam has an extraordinary ability to respond to any material I give him and create a score that perfectly captures the heart of it. Sacha's music never overshadows the story, but always enhances it, bringing out aspects and themes that you might never have known were there. Audiences continuously ask about the music in our productions."
"Sacha’s scores for 'Rising Tide' and 'No Place to Hide' genuinely took both films to a new level. His music helped define the heart of the films adding, lifting and underlining in all the right places. Sacha’s score is rich, powerful and sensitive and his understanding of cinema really helped us to make two extraordinary films."
