I’m very excited that two films I scored – HOLD ON and BAYARD AND ME – will premiere at Sundance this January.

HOLD ON is a new short narrative from Christine Turner (You Can Go). It’s a touching story of a grandson taking care of a grandmother suffering from dementia. The two characters are essentially in different worlds and I tried to create music that helps the viewer see things from the grandmother’s confused perspective.

BAYARD AND ME is a new short film by the super-talented documentarian Matt Wolf (Teenage, Wild Combination, I Am Rebel…).

I’ve been writing the music for the hit podcast “Serial” and have received so many questions I thought I’d share some of the pieces I’ve written (see below). To be clear, the amazing theme song is by the great Nick Thorburn – I write the score that plays during the episode (Nick also contributed additional scoring music as well).

I’ve been a long-time fan of Sarah Koenig’s work – her story for This American Life called “Dr. Gilmer and Mr. Hyde” is one of my all-time favorite pieces of journalism. (If you haven’t heard it but are a fan of Serial, check it out now!! ). So I knew “Serial” was going to be fantastic but – along with the rest of the world – I’ve been blown away by just how addictive, fascinating and awesome it is.

Amy Berg’s powerful documentary “An Open Secret” will premiere Nov. 14th at the SVA Theater for DOC NYC. I had the opportunity to write 5 pieces of music for the film, do some of the music editing, and do additional string scoring for much of the film’s music.

The film is a heart-breaking and alarming story about sex abuse in Hollywood against child actors and it has the thing that I absolutely love about a great documentary – while watching, you start thinking to yourself, “Why am I just learning about this now??