Nicholas Singer
Music for moving image
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The Boys of St. Columbs (2009, Documentary)
West Park Pictures & Maccana Teoranta for BBC and RTE Dir. Tom Collins
The Boys of St Columb's is a documentary about the lives of several great Irish figures including Nobel Laureates Seamus Heaney and John Hume, who all attended the same small school in Derry in the 1950s, and since then have helped transform modern Ireland.
Divorce: Sharia Style (2008, Documentary)
Faction Films for Channel 4, Dir. Masood Khan
Channel 4 documentary looking at Britain’s busiest Sharia council, to see what the Muslim legal institution offers couples in conflict, and to ask whether religious laws should be recognised by the secular British legal system.
30 mins of original music in various middle eastern, arabic and downtempo styles.
Audio Extracts (2 Tracks)
Safaris (2009, Documentary/Nature)
West Park Pictures for Reader's Digest
Three part nature series spanning the globe in search of the
world's most impressive safaris.
Using footage from the BBC
archives, this series shows the
full diversity of life in its natural
habitat, with over 100 minutes of original music in a wide variety of ethnic and contemperory styles.
Audio Extracts (4 tracks)
My Brother My Enemy (2005, Documentary)
NFTS/One World Broadcasting, Dir. Massood Kahn
Shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the Grierson Awards
Winner of Best Debut at the South Asian Film Festival
Highly Commended at the Royal Anthropological Institute's Ethnographic Film Festival
A deeply personal film about partition in
India and Pakistan, following two filmmakers
as they visit each others' families in their
respective countries. Using the India-Pakistan
cricket test match and the newly re-opened train line between the two as a basis, the film tests the current social climate and investigates the relationships between two countries to ask if the situation shows any signs of improving.
Audio Extract (1 Track)