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Oct 30
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Australian Screen Music Awards 2025 – Win!

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The Way Home wins BEST MUSIC in SHORT FILM at the Australian Screen Music Awards October 28, 2025.

Sometimes a story comes along and without any doubt, you know you have to be involved. This was one of those films. 

The Way Home was one of the first films to be shot in Ukraine since the Russian invasion.

It tells a story set during The Holodomor—the Russian man-made famine, engineered by Stalin, that killed nearly four million Ukrainians in two years. It powerfully connects the past with the present, and brings into focus Russia’s historical aggressions against Ukraine.

I’ll never forget recording our ‘white-voice’ singer Alina Savchuk in Kyiv…because for the recording engineer, this was his last session before he was sent to the frontline. This was a stark reminder of how every single Ukrainian is affected by this war and why creating films like this is so important.

Thank you to; Erkki Veltheim for your wonderful performances on violin, viola and electric violin;  Christian Scallan for an awesome mix; Alina Savchuk for your spectacular and emotive voice, and to Stefan Burgyn – please keep making these films!

SOUNDTRACK OUT NOW!

Billboard Magazine

APRA AMCOS

 

Aug 12
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THE WAY HOME – SOUNDTRACK RELEASE in DOLBY ATMOS September 2025

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The Way Home is a short documentary about one man’s arduous 1,000 km journey to escape a Soviet prison and return to his family during Soviet Russia’s collectivisation of the country, known as The Holodomor, which created a man-made famine killing millions of Ukrainians, directed by Stefan Bugryn. The film also brings into focus the current situation in Ukraine with Russia’s historical interference with this independent country. Screened at Flickerfest and the Melbourne Documentary Festival in the first half of 2025.

The score features the ‘white voice’ singing by the incredible, Alina Savchuk, electric violin, violin and viola by Erkki Veltheim, and church bells – which hold deep cultural, historical, and symbolic significance in the Ukraine during times of conflict, acting as far more than just religious instruments….

We have remixed one of the cues from the film and will be releasing this as a single before the album release later in the month. Stay tuned for more info!

Mar 03
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THE WAY HOME – WORLD PREMIERE

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World premiere at FLICKERFEST – Best of Documentary Shorts 1

Director: Stefan Bugryn Editor: Steven Zelko Composer: Dale Cornelius

Synopsis: After Stalin ordered the forced collectivisation of all the farms in 1930s Ukraine, Maxim, a humble cucumber farmer, rebels. He is arrested by local authorities and shipped off to forced labour camps of Siberia. To survive and return to his family, he steals away in the dead of night and begins the 1,000km journey home.

This was a very special film to work on and was one of the first productions to be filmed in the Ukraine since the war broke out. I hope this film travels internationally to highlight the plight of the Ukrainian people’s independence. I also had the pleasure of recording the amazing ‘white-voice’ Ukrainian vocalist, Alina Savchuk, whose voice is featured in the score, providing a powerful emotional focus in the film’s storyline.

 

Score Excerpt

 

Feb 21
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Breakaway Femmes – new Feature Documentary screening on SBS onDemand & in cinemas throughout UK & Ireland

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Director Eleanor Sharpe and Producer Nicholas Byrd have brought to life the compelling story of the Tour de Femme, the women’s counterpart to the Tour de France, in their powerful feature documentary. In the 1980s, amidst entrenched French misogyny, these extraordinary athletes battled not only grueling terrain but also systemic sexism, fighting for recognition in a male-dominated sport. Their courageous efforts paved the way for the professional female cyclists we celebrate today.

This is the third film I have collaborated on with Waterbyrd Films.

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Nov 07
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Qiddiya IRL Gaming City

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Since 2022 I’ve been composing and creating blue-sky music concepts for this massive ‘giga-project’ in Saudi Arabia.

We have been unveiling four gaming zones (worlds) this year at major gaming conferences, as part of the global IRL Gaming Tour,  in Brazil, Germany, Tokyo and South Korea. My music has been pressed on vinyl as part of the marketing campaign during this tour and we have had live performances with musicians, as well as remixes my original music by some incredible DJ’s around the planet!

In September at Tokyo Game Show (TGS), over 240,000 gaming fans, 3,000 global and local exhibitors from 40 countries, and publishers gathered in the biggest gaming convention in Japan. The first peeks into Qiddiya’s Gaming & Esports District and the lore of the Cyberpunk zone called, UBAR™ were officially revealed in an immersive 1,000sqm booth.

UBAR™ will be the first place in the world that offers a real-world cyberpunk lifestyle – featuring the next generation of gaming, IRL Gaming – in the world’s first city built for play, Qiddiya City in Saudi Arabia. UBAR’s lore is a cybertropolis set in Arab Futurism and gamified as an RPG (role playing game).

Watch trailer here

Find out more information here