Camille Awards 2024: International Jury members
ECSA is honourerd to reveal this year’s members of the International Jury. Out of the list of nominees, they will finally decide on who will win a Camille Award in our three categories. This year’s jury will consist of five exceptional and renowned personalities in the film music business: Dirk Brossé, Maggie Rodford, Philippe Rombi, Manel Santisteban, and Stephen Warbeck.
Conductor and award winning composer Dirk Brossé (Belgium) is currently Music Director of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and Music Director of the Ghent Film Festival. He is also professor of composition and conducting at the School of Arts / Royal Conservatory of Music in his hometown Ghent, Belgium. He has guest-conducted many top orchestras all over the world. As composer, his body of some 400 works includes concerti, oratorios, lieder, chamber music and symphonic pieces, as well as scores for cinema, television and stage, such as the Emmy-nominated score for the BBC/HBO series Parade’s End. Other scores include Prince of Africa, Daens, Sacco & Vanzetti, Tintin, Rembrandt, Ben X, Pauline & Paulette, 14-18 and Scrooge.
Maggie Rodford (United Kingdom) is Managing Director of the Air-Edel Group. She works closely with composers, negotiating contracts, producing, music supervising and co-ordinating music recordings. She has worked as music producer, co-ordinator and supervisor on high profile films including the forthcoming Wicked and Snow White. Recent credits include Paddington 2, Pinocchio, Cinderella, The King’s Speech, Pride & Prejudice and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Maggie served as a PRS Director and as Chairman of BAFTA Archive Heritage Committee and was a member of the PRS Executive Board and BAFTA Film committee. She is currently a board member of BAFTA Media Technology. Maggie has been awarded with the Malaika Award; an APRS Fellowship; a BASCA Gold Badge Award and a Krakow Film Music Festival Ambassador Award.
Philippe Rombi (France) is a well known composer and conductor in the French and international film music industry, known for many compositions since the start of this century. With many awards and nominations behind his name, including the César Award for Best Original Music (Joyeux Noël, Dans la maison, Frantz and Boîte noire), and the IFMCA Award for Best Original Score for a Drama (Angel, Le temps des secrets) and Best Original Score for a Comedy (Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis, Potiche and Mon Crime, Rombi established himself as a respected composer. In addition to composing, Rombi frequently conducts for the recording of his own scores, such as for Astérix et Obélix: le domaine des dieux with the Brussels Philharmonic.
Manel Santisteban (Spain) is a self-taught musician, initially dedicated to jazz, and later exploring pop. In film, he arranged music for Matador by Pedro Almodovar and won the Circle of Cinematographic Writers prize for best music. He also gained acclaim for composing music for TV series like La Casa de Papel (Money Heist) and Sky Rojo. His film compositions include works for directors like Fernando González Molina and Carlos Theron. Santisteban has garnered several prestigious awards, including the Jerry Goldsmith Award and the 2022 Camille Award for Best Originial Music for a Series for La Casa de Papel together with Iván Martínez Lacámara.
Stephen Warbeck (United Kingdom) is one of the the most successful British composers working in film today. His many credits include Shakespeare in Love, for which he won an Oscar for Best Original Score; Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Billy Elliott, Birthday Girl, Quills, Mrs Brown and My Son the Fanatic. His most recent scores include DNA, which received a César Award nomination for Original Score, Uncle Vanya, The Children Act, Hampstead, and The Time Of Our Lives. Other recent film credits include Mon Roi, Keeping Rosy and Seve.
The winners of the Camille Awards will be announced at the Camille Awards ceremony on 13 November 2024 at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) in Paris, France. Registration details will be announced soon.
The Camille Awards are organised with the support of Creative Europe and the Film Music Foundation.
