BY THE RIVER

Nominated for Best Original Score at the St. Kilda Film Festival, an Oscar-qualifying film fest.

I had the amazing privilege of scoring a feature film documentary in 2019. The film debuted on ABC Australia in 2020, and this is the trailer that features music in the film. Stretching along the river Ganges rests Varanasi, the holiest of India’s seven sacred cities, and a place where devout Hindus go to die in hopes of achieving moksha - becoming liberated from the cycle of rebirth. Hindu scriptures say that a soul has to undergo 8.4 million rebirths before reaching the human form, the only form one can attain moksha, and dying in Varanasi and being cremated along the banks of the river is believed to be the ideal way of achieving this. Several so-called ‘death hotels’ exist to accommodate believers who abandon their lives and come here in wait for death - some for as long as 40 years.