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GUITARIST RICK DEL CASTILLO SCORES
BIG
AT PARK CITY FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL
Friend of Bart's wins GOLD AWARD for "Best Score for a Short Film"
February 28, 2007 (Austin, TX) - Guitarist Rick del
Castillo, of the Latin-rock band Del Castillo,
scored big and won the prestigious "Gold Award" (January 28) at
the Park City Film Music Festival,
which runs concurrent with the Sundance Film Festival. The "Gold
Award" honors the best use of
music in a short film. Rick composed the score - one of over one
thousand entries submitted to
the festival - for the short film Killing Snakes.
"I've done music cues for Robert Rodriguez's films, some on
acoustic and others on electric guitar,
and our band Del Castillo had a song in the soundtrack for Once
Upon A Time In Mexico but this is
the first time I composed an entire score for a film incorporating
traditional nylon guitar with rock
drums along with full orchestration" said del Castillo. Most of
the compositions were written while
Del Castillo was on tour and later recorded at Abbey Road Studios
in London, Bratislava Recording
Studio in Slovakia, and Del Castillo's own Smilin' Castle Studio
in Austin, Texas. "Director Carl Thiel
gave me good instructions on where to place some of the cues" del
Castillo said.
Killing Snakes is the story of two childhood friends who go
to Spain and get caught up in the
drug world of an obsessive kingpin, ending up in a 'no holds barred'
polo game. Along with
del Castillo, the short film was co-written with Martina Amende
Kreidl , who has worked with
Robert Redford on A River Runs Through It. "It was inspiring to
have the music before much of
the film was shot and being at Abbey Road was a highlight of our
Killing Snakes experience,"
said Amende Kreidl. The film features talent from Austin: Carl Thiel,
director/editor;
Martina Amende Kreidl, producer/co-writer; Rick del Castillo, co-writer/composer;
starring Cecilio Ruiz, Doc Ruiz, Scott Roddan, Albert Besteiro,
Alex Ruiz and Rick del Castillo.
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