Michele Josia will curate the soundtrack for “Joachim and the Apocalypse”
The award-winning composer will set the music for the film in costume and set in the 12th century
Los Angeles (USA) | Delta Star Pictures has signed the music rights contract with Hollywood’s The Max Steiner Agency, which represents precisely Michele Josia’s name internationally.
As is well known, the work is inspired by the life of the monastic thinker and reformer Joachim of Fiore (Gioacchino da Fiore, ‘giant’ that radiates so much light even after centuries; quoted by Dante Alighieri in the Paradise of the Divine Comedy; for the race for the White House Barack Obama finds inspiration in the figure of this medieval monk considering him ‘Master of contemporary civilization’).
An experiential work, a spiritual journey in search of the ultimate things in life. Director Jordan River personally listened to the various proposals received from the many Music Composers internationally and finally chose the name of Michele Josia, an award-winning film and television composer, winner of the prestigious Emmy Awards, member of the International Film Music Society of China, former member of the Italian Film Academy David di Donatello Awards and the EFA European Film Academy.
The film is currently in post-production, filming in Calabria and Lazio has been completed in recent months, and final green screen and post-production work will be carried out in the coming months, some of which will be done in Puglia.
The film, produced by Delta Star Pictures and supported by the Ministry of Culture, Lazio Region, Calabria Film Commission and Apulia Film Commission, already sees the collaboration of numerous professionals, including Makeup Supervisor Vittorio Sodano (two Oscar nominations, two David di Donatello awards).
Michele Josia, will focus on conveying emotions through music. Michele combines her academic knowledge of orchestration, composition, human voice and choirs with today’s new technology of digital instruments, which are perfectly matched to visual images. Josia is also a well-known choral conductor with over 190 concerts conducted in some of Europe’s most important concert halls, so much more than just a composer, her work includes film scores as well as choral and orchestral works. Michele Josia has written 37 film and TV soundtracks that have participated in numerous national and international film festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival (65th and 66th editions). Now a new challenge for him is to create three recognizable themes capable of reconnecting with the symbol of the Joachimite Trinitarian circles and taken up by Dante in the Divine Comedy. A theme for the three “Ages,” “Ages” or “Times”(past, present and future), which at a certain point in the plot intertwine – the past and the future being decided in the present, an unprecedented composition, then, for a film that addresses the soul.
Backstage photo ‘Joachim and the Apocalypse’
