003: Lucas Cantor | 2x Emmy Winning Composer Shares His Inspirations

10/04/21 • 56 min

Lucas Cantor is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and speaker.

He has worked in NBC's music department for the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Athens, Torino, Beijing, Vancouver, London, Sochi, Rio, and Pyeong Chang. He won two Emmys for the Olympics (2008 and 2012). Lucas co-produced Lorde's cover of Everybody Wants To Rule The World on the Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack.

Lucas Co-Wrote the theme song for Major League Soccer on Fox with Dan Martinez

Lucas delivered a TEDx talk on the subject of Artificial Intelligence and creativity

Lucas is the Chief Composer at the Melbourne Deep Learning Group at the University Of Melbourne, Australia

He composed music for the Netflix Anime Cannon Busters

He finished Schubert’s 8th Symphony (the unfinished symphony) with the help of AI. The full symphony was premiered in London at Cadogan Hall.

He's the composer for Wu-Tang In Space. A collaboration between Impossible foods, and the Wu Tang Clan.

He currently writes music for DreamWorks Animation's Spirit: Riding Free and for Cannon Busters (coming in 2019), both on Netflix.

He wrote the theme and background music for the LA Times Podcast: The Reel.

In 2017, Lucas scored the A Rotten Holiday featuring Disney's Descendants.

He was the orchestra composer and conductor for the Kenzo X H&M fashion show in October 2016.

In 2014 and 2015, he was the musical director of The Lyric Project, a musical presented by ASCAP.

In 2014, he was the executive producer of Score!, an orchestral concert of music for television presented by ASCAP and the Television Academy.

In 2013, he was the composer for The Devotion Project, a series of short films about LGBTQ couples.

Lucas Cantor is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and speaker.

Lucas Co-Wrote the theme song for Major League Soccer on Fox with Dan Martinez

Lucas delivered a TEDx talk on the subject of Artificial Intelligence and creativity

Lucas is the Chief Composer at the Melbourne Deep Learning Group at the University Of Melbourne, Australia

He composed music for the Netflix Anime Cannon Busters

He finished Schubert’s 8th Symphony (the unfinished symphony) with the help of AI. The full symphony was premiered in London at Cadogan Hall.

He's the composer for Wu-Tang In Space. A collaboration between Impossible foods, and the Wu Tang Clan.

He currently writes music for DreamWorks Animation's Spirit: Riding Free and for Cannon Busters (coming in 2019), both on Netflix.

He wrote the theme and background music for the LA Times Podcast: The Reel.

In 2017, Lucas scored the A Rotten Holiday featuring Disney's Descendants.

He was the orchestra composer and conductor for the Kenzo X H&M fashion show in October 2016.

In 2014 and 2015, he was the musical director of The Lyric Project, a musical presented by ASCAP.

In 2014, he was the executive producer of Score!, an orchestral concert of music for television presented by ASCAP and the Television Academy.

In 2013, he was the composer for The Devotion Project, a series of short films about LGBTQ couples.

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002: BJ McDonnell | Surviving Victor Crowley and Working With the Avengers

BJ McDonnell is a motion picture camera operator and director. In 2000 McDonnell graduated from Los Angeles City College with his degree in Cinema and quickly became a grip and then a union camera / Steadicam operator in I.A.T.S.E 600. He is also a member of SAG / AFTRA. McDonnell has shot such features as "Jack Reacher", "Battle: Los Angeles", "The Interview", "Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter", "Neighbors", and many more.

McDonnell also served as an operator on such television shows as "Heroes" and "Standoff".

In 2008, McDonnell won a Telly award for cinematography and camera operation.

IN 2012, after shooting the first two entries in the "Hatchet" horror film series, McDonnell took the directing chair for the third installment franchise; "Hatchet III". McDonnell also directed the critically lauded live-action rendition of the "Dead Island" commercial which received over 1 million hits in the first week of its release on Youtube.

In 2015, McDonnell directed a music video for the band SLAYER for the song "Repentless". It has gained 5 million views on youtube in a matter of two months. The music video also won the "Loudwire 5th Annual Music Awards" for best metal video of 2015.

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004: Jared Rivet | Creating the Day of the Dead TV Series

Jared Rivet has been making movies his entire life. Growing up in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the fishing town that served as the setting for Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick, Jared drew his early inspiration from both literary and filmic monsters; his favorite childhood films were Creepshow, Jaws, and Star Wars. From a young age, Jared wrote stories and made home movies with schoolyard friends. In high school, he joined the award-winning New Bedford High School Drama Club and played a number of high-profile roles, including the role of Victor Frankenstein in their production of Frankenstein. A budding screenwriter, Jared immersed himself in every aspect of the film industry, from acting to writing to directing, and even began a decade-long correspondence with legendary film composer Jerry Goldsmith, whose work, to this day, sets the tone for much of Jared’s writing.

Today, Jared is a screenwriter, producer, director, author, actor, and voice actor. He wrote the screenplay for the Kevin Greutert-directed feature film Jackals starring Stephen Dorff (released by Scream Factory in 2017).

Since 2014, he has written, directed and acted in multiple episodes of Earbud Theater, an award-winning audio drama anthology podcast series specializing in horror and science fiction. In 2016, he received an Audio Verse Award nomination for his performance in the Earbud Theater episode "On the Line," which he also wrote and directed. His 2016 Earbud Theater episode "Are You Sleeping?" was one of the subjects discussed in the published academic paper, “Put On Your Headphones And Turn Out The Lights: Exploring Immersive Auditory Horror in 3D-Sound Podcasting” by Danielle Hancock (University of East Anglia).

Jared served as a guest lecturer at the Drexel University Great Works Symposium’s “Zom Con” in 2015; contributed an essay to the 2018 collection My Favorite Horror Movie; and he has co-hosted the monthly trivia event “Dead Right Horror Trivia” with Dr. Rebekah McKendry since 2015.

In September 2018, Jared served as an instructor at the first-ever class of the Los Angeles branch of the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, moderating a career-spanning discussion with renowned indie-horror filmmaker, Don Coscarelli.

Jared worked as a staff writer for the 2019 event series revival of Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark? as well as Syfy Channel’s upcoming TV series based on George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead (2021). He has also written episodes of the upcoming Are You Afraid of the Dark? podcast series for Nickelodeon.

Jared is a member of the WGAW and is repped by Culture Creative Entertain...