BEST SOUND DESIGN for Nocturne for a Lighterman

Very honoured that the sound design for Nocturne for a Lighterman (extended) has won best sound design for Bracciano Film and Arts Festival, July, 2025, Italy. I gave a broad outline to the leading soundscape artist Marc Neys well known for his moody, abstract, intricately layered works with repetitive patterns, and whom I felt was right for the subject. The film features a painting by James McNeill Whistler and its relationship to a lighterman depicted – potentially one of my ancestors. I wanted to have something similar in tone to Whistler's friend Debussy, and his circular, minimal motifs, and Marc came up with just that. A really powerful and atmospheric piece resulted. If you listen closely, where the lighterman's mournful whistle is mentioned, you can hear a similar sound drifting into the night just after; and where there are pauses to reflect on the darker central subject you are really taken by the changing tide of sound. THANK YOU to Bracciano and Marc Neys!