Park City Film Music Festival

The Park City Film Music Festival is a new independent film festival, presenting film music competition for both INDIE and studio-sponsored films, a performance showcase for composers with seminars for composers, musicians, songwriters and groups.

The eighth annual Park City Film Music Festival will be held in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, May 20 - 30, 2011. This is the first film festival in the world singularly recognizing the contribution of composers and their music to film, and the first of such festivals in the Americas. Awards are given in the categories of Best Use of Music in Full-Length Feature Film, Best Use of Music in Documentary Film, and Best Use of Music in Short Film and, new this year, Best Performance/Experimental Music Film. The first major film festival to recognize film music as part of the awards lineup since 1985 is the Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent, which currently draws over 80,000 devotees.

Film music, whose broad appeal continues to gain prominence in the music marketplace, has stood for a long time recognized only at the very highest levels: the Academy awards, the Emmys, the Grammys, and a few others. The growing stature of film music is exemplified in the announcement in 2005 of the Pulitzer prizes qualifying film music for the first time after over 60 years.

The Park City Film Music Festival burst on the scene with a landmark 33 films in 2004, 50 films in 2005, 102 films in 2006, 200 films in 2007, 210 films in 2008, and 200 films in 2009, and is the brainchild of Ms. Leslie Harlow who has been operating the Park City International Music Festival for over 25 years. A Juilliard graduate, she and her husband, festival director Russell Harlow, a member of the Utah Symphony, are both prominent classical artists.

The tickets are $10.00. All-day passes are $30.00. Screenings will run beginning May 20 and run through May 30, 2011. Please go to their website for an updated screening schedule.