We are pleased to announce that respected film score composer David Holmes will be a special guest at SOUNDTRACK: The International Film and Music Festival for Wales. 

An established name on the Club DJ circuit during the 90's, Belfast born David Holmes broke through to the world of soundtracks when every track from his debut album ‘This Film's Crap, Let's Slash the Seats' got snapped up for movie and TV soundtracks, featuring in ‘The Game and ‘Meet Joe Black' amongst others. 

Holmes made his first proper foray in to the world of film scoring in 1998, producing the soundtrack to the unsettling urban thriller ‘Resurrection Man'. Following this, David travelled to New York City to create an audio documentary about urban jungle environments. The resulting album, featuring narratives from NYC citizens over drum and bass, gritty blues and retro Latin jazz, attracted the attention of Danny DeVito who hired him to write the score and assemble the soundtrack to the Steven Soderbergh film ‘Out of Sight'. Holmes' score would earn him a place in Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 100 Creative People in Entertainme

Soderbergh would come calling once again in 2001, tapping Holmes up to produce another feature-film soundtrack, ‘Ocean's Eleven'. Holmes would go on to score both ‘Ocean's' sequels and Michael Winterbottom's ‘Code 46'.

In 2008, Holmes was engaged by Turner Prize winning artist Steve McQueen to score his debut feature about IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. The unflinching ‘Hunger' was hailed by the critics and subsequently scooped Camera d'Or at The Cannes Film Festival.

David Homes at SOUNDTRACK

The screening of Hunger will be followed by a special ‘In Conversation' with David Holmes, who will discuss the film's score and also his work on the Oceans trilogy, Out of Sight and Resurrection Man, amongst others.

Screening

‘Hunger' Winner of the Caméra D'Or at Cannes Film Festival 2008

Dir: Steve McQueen: 2008

Starring: Michael Fassbender, Ray Lohan

Turner Prize-winning British artist Steve McQueen makes his big-screen directorial debut with Hunger, an account of the 1981 hunger strike in Northern Ireland's Maze prison.

The film follows the last six weeks in the life of Republican Bobby Sands, who died during the strike. It plunges viewers into the world of the early 1980s H-Blocks uprising and of republican prisoner Sands (played with formidable force by Michael Fassbender), who died 66 days into a hunger strike.

27^th of November / 19.00 / Cineworld: Mary Ann Street

SOUNDTRACK Presents David Homes @ The Point 

David Holmes will play an exclusive DJ set at The Point, Cardiff bay on the 27^th of November as part of SOUNDTRACK: The International Film and Music Festival for Wales. Supported by locals Meehan and Hosko, the event starts at 21.00 and tickets are £5 Adv from Catapult Records, High St Arcade; Ticketline UK,  Westgate St and online from http://www.soundtrackfilmfestival.com/tickets

Other David Holmes screening. 

‘Out of Sight'

Dir: Steven Soderbergh: 1998

Starring: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames

Based on Elmore Leonard's famous crime novel, OUT OF SIGHT is a funny, hip, and vibrant action-drama that tells the story of the unlikely relationship that forms between an FBI agent and a career criminal. After Jack Foley escapes from jail with the help of his partner, he takes Karen Sisco, a sexy federal agent, hostage. Immediately sparks fly between the two. Eventually released, Karen tracks the pair to Detroit, where they plan to rob a former cellmate and wealthy, white-collar criminal. As Foley zeroes in on his target, Karen must decide which side she's on.

27^th of November / 14.00 / Cineworld: Mary Anne Street