Gingger Shankar
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Hawaii Critics Notebook #1
To be a film festival in today’s era of instant-streaming gratification and downloading-at-home culture means organizing events and creating a community beyond the traditional movie screen, and this year’s edition of the Hawaii International Film Festival certainly promised its patrons far more than a typical film-going experience. Out with the hot dogs, seating rows, frigid air conditioning, and desultory Q&A’s of your usual festival situation, and—for a few special nights at least—in with artisanal food trucks, outdoor screenings, martial arts demos, live music performances, cosplay displays, lengthy photo ops with various stars, and even, oddly enough, quite a few films. […]
by Jason Sanders on Oct 22, 2012 -
TRAILER WATCH: “HOMECOMING”
Sean Hackett’s Homecoming chronicles, in his words, “a female medic who has served in the military since High School. As she returns home, she decides to tell her two best friends something that’s been on her mind….” The film is scored by Gingger Shankar, one of our “25 New Faces” this year, and is being released using the “Demand It” feature at Eventful.com. Check out the trailer and then, if you’re inclined, click on the link to invite the film to your home town. Homecoming Trailer from Homecoming by Sean Hackett on Vimeo.
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 12, 2011 -
KICKSTARTER: “PARIAH” PRODUCER NEKISA COOPER’S “FIVE NIGHTS IN MAINE”
Though her Sundance hit Pariah opens through Focus in the winter, producer Nekisa Cooper hasn’t slowed down as she reached out to us about a project she’s currently getting off the ground through Kickstarter, Five Nights In Maine, directed by Bay Area filmmaker Maris Curran. They are currently trying to raise $40,000. Here’s the synopsis: Sherwin and Fiona are at a crossroads. As an interracial couple living in the south, they seem to have created an idyllic bubble for their love. But after a recent visit to her ailing and prickly mother, Fiona is changed. Suddenly, their relationship is contentious […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Aug 23, 2011 -
Gingger Shankar
“I became a film composer by accident,” admits Gingger Shankar, who was called in one day by a music supervisor to work on some cues for The Passion of the Christ. A vocalist and musician raised in Los Angeles and India, Shankar has performed on stage with everyone from Peter Gabriel and Frank Zappa to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Smashing Pumpkins. But contributing music that would accompany the cinematic image? “I was swimming in the deep end,” she says. Her work on John Debney’s The Passion of the Christ score impressed the folks at the Sundance Composers Lab, and […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 17, 2011
