Film Fest Ghent has been focusing the spotlight on film music for decades. That makes it, according to Variety and The Wall Street Journal, one of the unmissable film festivals on the calendar. Every year, both renowned and new talent travel to Ghent to attend the music events, from the film music/industry days to the World Soundtrack Awards Concert. To top it all off, Film Fest Ghent releases its own new album every year.
Film Fest Ghent's music projects include the two film music concerts and various industry-related events during the annual film festival, and also other projects organised or supported by the film festival throughout the year.
As a natural consequence of the musical DNA of the organisation, every year we organise concerts in which film music comes to the foreground. Aside from the World Soundtrack Awards, this year a Hollywood Nightmares concert took place with a…
The World Soundtrack Awards are the most important film music prizes in the world. The awards ceremony takes place during the annual WSA Gala & Concert at Film Fest Gent. The 20th anniversary edition of the World Soundtrack Awards will be an online…
Every year Film Fest Gent records a compilation album with a selection of the best scores by one particular composer. In 2019 the CD Marco Beltrami - Music for Film was released during the film festival. More info about this year's CD…
Film Fest Gent and KASK - School of Arts Gent coordinate the Film Music & Sound Seminar, an annual event for students in film, (film) music and sound design about the artistic collaboration between filmmaker, composer and/or sound designer.
Over the past year, Icelandic composer Hildur GuðnadoĢttir rose to prominence as one of film music’s most promising revelations. She has recently won an Emmy Award for her acclaimed score for Chernobyl in the category Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special.
Each year Film Fest Gent organises a short press conference and Meet & Greet with the invited guests of honour and nominated WSA composers.
Each year Film Fest Gent organises the WSA Industry Day: the networking event for both young and established international film (music) professionals to get insight into new developments, to be part of inspiring discussions and to meet colleagues in the…
Once again, we joined forces for ten days of film and music with Vooruit during Film Fest Gent 2019. After a first succesful edition of Videodroom in 2018 we again presented a series of concert evenings where top musicians, representing a diversity…
An initiative by KASKCinema, Democrazy and Film Fest Gent, Live Track Cinema gives pop/rock musicians the opportunity to collide with images on the big screen. Not your typical concert or film experience, but an exciting audio-visual performance which provides an…
Young international film music talent have the chance to win the Sabam Award for the Best Original Composition by a Young Composer. This award was created by the World Soundtrack Academy and is worth € 2.500. The compositions of the…
The InMICS Composers Lab offers students the unique opportunity to participate in a series of intensive masterclasses, workshops and training sessions given by renowned professionals. The InMICS Composers Lab is organised by and takes place at the three participating festivals: Film Fest…
We are very pleased to announce that EPAS as a one-year postgraduate in the creative potential of sound started the first of September 2016. This international program is organized by The School of Arts (Gent), NFA (Amsterdam) and ifs (Cologne).
