UEL academic writes music for award-winning film
Thursday 29 September 2011
Jeff Ellis, a lecturer in the University of East London’s new School of Arts and Digital Industries, is the sound designer and composer for a film that has just been awarded Best World Cinema Narrative Feature at the Hell’s Kitchen Film Festival in New York.
The film, Lost in Italy, which tells the tale of a man from present day London who wakes in 1950s Italy not knowing why or why he got there, was awarded the prestigious international prize at the weekend.
Shot on location in London and Italy, the film is directed by Craig Viveiros and was produced by and stars Glen Murphy, originally from Canning Town and best known for his role in ITV's London's Burning. It also stars another local hero in Ray Winstone as Terry the London villain who goes back to the 1950’s to shape the course of destiny.
Jeff composed all of the incidental music for this classic take on the Back to the Future concept along with his friend Milton Reame-James, originally from 70's band Cockney Rebel.
He said of the award: “It was fantastic to be involved in the film but for it then to pick up such a prestigious award really is the icing on the cake.”
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