First Feature-Length Film Composer Credit

The first feature-length film scored. This film is EXCELLENT and full of crucial knowledge that has real potential to shift minds and patterns towards better ways. So much heart and good energy behind this work, with a great feeling team and flow at every step of the way. This film is rich with lesser-heard history and context from the Qathet Area, featuring difficult and hard-to-face truths that are framed in a very generous and open way, creating tangible potential to help move the needle towards better understandings and more sober-eyed strategies around certain unfortanate current realities.

Full credits and details and stories behind the film on the official website - here.

Official release of the film making it to HotDocs - here.

Trailer below..

Music in EMERGENCE

Happy to have music in Nova Ami & Velcrow Ripper's latest film Emergence. A handful of tracks made with Tsimka and one track made with Skeena Reece. Full film can be watched on the Knowledge Network beginning very soon.

Music in 'The Good Canadian'

Honoured to have a track, 'Fog' with Tsimka, in an excellent new documentary from Leena Minifie & David Paperny. It's not an easy watch, but it's important one, especially for non-indigenous people who identify as canadian. the full film is easily streamed on youtube in the link below ⬇⬇

While the Green Grass Grows

"Pleased to officially announce a large amount of my music has made it into the latest film, While the Green Grass Grows, from known director Peter Mettler. Over 17 minutes of my music, all as Souns, has been blended into the first two completed parts of this masterwork. These first two parts (1 and 6) are currently making their way through the festival circuit and have picked up a few nice awards so far.

thankful to have been included in this."

~ Michael

First Feature Length Score

" i got the call 2 months ago while i was in the sierra nevada de santa marta, colombia. everything in perfect alignment. i’ve been working towards this for years..

i am scoring my first proper full-length feature film

working with a director & writer i feel in joyous alignment with - the emmy-award-winning Jason Mannings. his art and output is beautiful and world-class. our communication is excellent and fluid in the way that i fully want and need. together, there is constant learning and growth and full-spectrum depth and joy, clear vision, and inclusiveness towards the unseen and unknown (happily and honestly tracking our blindspots and areas of difficulty and challenge). all with great space for other projects and without a feeling of urgency or rush. fully reflective of exactly the way i want to be working now.

greatly looking forward to eventually sharing this with the world and also soaking in every piece of the process. it will take some time. it will take all the time it needs. it will be a few years from now, safe bet, so don’t “hold tight” just yet! ..much else to share in the mean time. love "

Hwuy’xwet Pune’luxutth (Opening Penelakut)

watch the full film now on youtube. many thanks to jason mannings and the people of penelakut island and all others who contributed to this project. a GOFUNDME for future trailbuilding is also up and running now.

more music for film & screen

Things have been more publicly quiet, compared to recent years, as more behind-the-scenes work of composing for screen has been developing and getting more prioritized focus.

So far in 2020: music for a Patagonia commercial has been completed, 10 pieces for Destination BC (videos and commercials) have been created, music in The New Coorporation, and a small handful of songs have been confirmed for a numbered of yet-to-be announced short and feature length films, and relationships with high-calibre budding and establised filmmakers continue to be cultivated.

Watch a playlist of music-for-screen projects that exist of youtube here.

'The Last Honey Hunter' released

'The Last Hunter', a very rich and moving and feature-length documentary film from Felt Soul Media and National Geographic, is now available for free viewing online. This award winning, and academy awards qualifying, beautiful piece of work includes two Michael Red original songs along with works from Loscil and Lusine.

YEARS END - A1PHA

i initiated the low key YEARS END at the very end of last year, and got a bunch of positive feedback about it. the plan is to release another albums worth of material at the very end of this year too. i'll also be slowly feeding select unreleased back catelog and certain older short-run physical releases to there too.

just put up the original score i did for A1PHA, a short film eron carruth wrote and directed. thanks for the support