2009 has been a terrific year so far.  I had my first X-Ray Dog track come out in January on their “Night Hounds” disc.   “Andheri” has been very successful, having been picked up for international distribution by Premium Films and placements at many film festivals.  “A Work of Art” was picked up at several festivals as well.  “Russel Fish” was picked up for its first festival this week - the Palm Springs Film Festival.  Finally, my music is featured on a number of episodes of “Party Down,” which has been playing on Starz this month.

Currently, I am beginning work on four short film scores and I have several X-Ray Dog tracks in the works for upcoming releases (May-June).

“Andheri” has entered a distribution agreement with Premium Films, a French distributor that represented three of last years five Academy Award nominated shorts and one Academy Award nominated animated short.  The film has also been selected for several more festivals, bringing the current list to:

Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival (February)
San Francisco Asian-American Film Festival (March)
Method Fest (March)
Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (April) [SPECIAL JURY AWARD]
Nashville Film Festival (April)
Newport Beach Film Festival (April)
Gulf Film Festival in Dubai (April)
Breckenridge Festival of Film (June) [WINNER - BEST DRAMATIC SHORT]
Edinburgh Film Festival (June)
Arcipelago International Short Film Festival (June)
Palm Springs International Short Film Festival (June)
Stuttgart “Bollywood and Beyond” (July)
Indianapolis International Film Festival (July)
Expresion en Corto International Film Festival (July-August)
OFF/ON Warsaw International Short Film Festival (October)

“A Work of Art” has also now been selected by both Method Fest and Newport Beach Film Festival.

I am wrapping up writing for “Party Down” and looking forward to beginning work on four short films in the next few months.

Both “Andheri” and “A Work of Art” are official selections of Method Fest 2009.  Sushrut Jain (”Andheri” director) just returned from the Clermont-Ferrand festival in France.  Andheri played each day of the week-long festival to a theater packed with over 1000 festival-goers.  It was well-received with crowds forming lines for every showing and answering the film with vigorous applause daily.

2008 was a busy year with ten projects wrapped and several lined up for 2009.  Lately I have been writing music for the Starz original program “Party Down,” a comedy from executive producers Rob Thomas (Veronica Mars) and Paul Rudd of Judd Apatow fame, under television composer Josh Kramon (Veronica Mars, October Road).

Finally, I have my first cue featured with X-Ray Dog on their current “Night Hounds” release.  The cue is currently the opening title track on my site’s music player, “Last Chance.”

More to come.

There are some new pieces on the audio player, including the end credits theme from Andheri and a piece from an upcoming X-Ray Dog release.

Some major developments coming up in early 2009, so stay tuned.

One of the world’s most prestigious and renowned short film festivals, the Clermont-Ferrand, has selected “Andheri” as one of 74 films out of 5000 submitted.

Mike Manning’s “A Work of Art” has been awarded second place out of 70 films in dvxuser.com’s Twilight Fest.  View the detailed results here.  A review of the film singles out my music: “That score by Daniel Walter is killer. Simply killer! Whoa!”

Post-production on Andheri is finished and the film will begin showing at festivals in the next few months.

A Work of Art premiered to a lively crowd at the Cella gallery in North Hollywood last weekend, and is currently one of seven finalists out of 70 submitted films in the dvxuser.com Twilight Film festival.

Work continues on various student and independent short films, in addition to library music - more news to come.

Check out Tremendosaur.com for my score to their new animated short, “Oops! All Lansburys.”

New York based mixing engineer Brian Taylor is professionally mixing the score for Andheri.  Cues will be up on the site soon!

I am scoring another short student project, Tulsa, directed by Harry Chaskin.

Filmmaker Mike Manning has hired me to produce a score for his highly original and creative short film, “A Work of Art.”

The score for Andheri is coming along nicely - test screenings have been immensely positive.  We are moving in record, mix, and wrap it up in the next two weeks.

Some more things coming up - in fact, this fall/winter is shaping up to be major.  Stay updated!

I have been hired to score the superb “Andheri,” directed by Sushrut Jain. The film was shot in Mumbai, India. More to come regarding this project - for now, you can check out the website at http://www.andheri-themovie.com/