Still, things start off cheerfully enough as they arrive at their rustic woodside lodge, kicking off a night’s carousing and flirting with two village girls - albeit to the consternation of surly male locals, of whom only the older, community-minded Logan (Tony Curran) makes friendly overtures. Young, mild-mannered dad-to-be Vaughn (Lowden) reluctantly leaves his fiancée to spend the weekend with his reckless, randy, coke-snorting best friend Marcus (Martin McCann), who has planned a Highlands hunting expedition as a kind of final farewell to their old days of fancy-free fraternity.Įven if the trip has been arranged for his benefit, it’s clear from the outset that Vaughn views his attendance more as a favor to his untethered pal: Palmer’s script is tacitly perceptive on clashing modes of masculinity, as well as the shifting, drifting nature of male friendships. She completed a Master's in Composition for Screen at the Royal College of Music in London studying with Academy Award winners Dario Marianelli and Gabriel Yared and has assisted George Fenton on the BBC series “Life” narrated by David Attenborough, which was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award.ġ3.With minimal setup and on-the-fly character sketching, “Calibre” gets swiftly to business. In 2001 she was awarded a SOCAN prize for Young Composers of Canada. She obtained Bachelor degrees in English Literature and Music at McGill University in Montreal where she experimented with contemporary music techniques. Since then she has composed music for the BBC, C4, five, A&E, History Channel, Discovery, National Geographic and Sky Movies, as well as a range of independent films.Īnne was born in Canada to Romanian and Polish parents and grew up in various countries around the world.
The prize was a commission to score a BBC Natural World film, White Falcon, White Wolf, which won a Merit Award for Music at the Missoula Wildlife Film Festival. In 2006, Anne won the BBC New Talent, New TV Composers Scheme.
Other recent films include the award-winning series Locked Up Abroad for National Geographic Wootton Bassett: The Town That Remembers by acclaimed director Henry Singer for BBC One America: the Story of Us, a landmark series for the History Channel introduced by Barak Obama and Crusaders: Back From the Dead directed by Matthew Catling for Channel4.
It was officially selected for Sundance Film Festival 2012 and has been considered one of the hottest films this summer.
She has recently scored "The Imposter", a feature film directed by Bart Layton produced by Film4 and A&E Indie Films, which opened in cinemas across North America and the UK this summer. Anne Nikitin is an award-winning composer who has scored a wide range of films from action-packed thrillers to emotional dramas, quirky comedies and epic natural history productions.
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