2022 Golden Melody Festival

No. 02

Topic：The Powerful Music Matchmaker behind the Scene

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Mark FRIESER (Moderator)

CEO, Sync Summit

Mark FRIESER is the Founder and CEO of the music licensing educational and events platform Sync Summit (https://syncsummit.com) and the music licensing agency, Disconic (https://disconic.com). Mark's work in technology, music and entertainment began in high school as a journalist for the long-island based music magazine Good Times (https://goodtimesmag.com) in 1983. Since then, Mark's worked as a technologist and executive at companies that include About.com, Nielsen, Jupiter Communications, News Corporation, iVillage, IDT, Jerusalem Venture Partners, Women Japan, Hachette and Llagardere and founded the mobile music consultancy Consect. Mark was educated at Queens College and the Sorbonne and continues to be obsessed with discovering and sharing the next big thing in tech and music.

Sync Summit is a comprehensive resource to synchronize music and your business with the people and the projects that need music in film, TV, games, apps, ads, streaming services and everywhere else that music makes visual and interactive media come to life. We provide consulting, event production, music licensing and educational services.

Gary CALAMAR

President, Go Music

Gary CALAMAR, president of Go Music, is a five time Grammy-nominated producer and music supervisor who has overseen the music on some of the most acclaimed and popular shows on television including “True Blood”, “Six Feet Under”, “Dexter”, “Entourage”, "Weeds", "House” and “Man In The High Castle”. Gary is currently working on “Titans” (HBO Max) and “Three Body Problem” (Netflix). Gary was twice awarded the Guild Of Music Supervisor Award for Best Music Supervision for Television. Gary is also a veteran DJ currently at 88.5 KCSN and the co-author of "Record Store Days (From Vinyl to Digital and Back Again)". As a songwriter, Gary co-wrote the song “Let's Boot and Rally” performed by Iggy Pop and Bethany Cosentino (Best Coast) which was named by Rolling Stone magazine as one of Iggy's all-time best collaborations.
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Chris HOU

Music Director, SkyCastle Music

Currently the music director of SkyCastle Music, Chris HOU specializes in producing music for movie, drama and advertising as well as music records. He worked with famous artists like WU Qing-feng, Winnie HSIN, Eason CHAN and FeiFei OU-YANG, and was invited to be the jury member for GMA, GHA, GIMA.
Having worked with over 30 famous directors and supervisors, his representative works include music for movies 'Your Name Engraved Herein', 'Blue Gate Crossing', 'Taipei Exchanges', 'Father to Son', 'Mirror Image' and other best-selling movies, 'Till We Meet Again', 'You Are the Apple of My Eye', 'Tiny Times', 'Back to the Good Times', 'Our Times', '[The Tenants Downstairs', etc. His music works for drama includes Netflix original 'Triad Princess', iQiyi's mist series 'Gold Panning', Mango TV's 'Pandora's Box', and China's TV dramas 'The Wolf', 'SWEET TAI CHI', and 'Side By Side'.
During the past years, he insisted on producing high quality music and was recognized by the GHA as the Best Original Film Music nominee and by the Best Music Award of Taipei Film Festival. His works 'Those Bygone Years' (HU Xia) was the awarded the best-loved song by Ultimate Song Chart in 2011. He was also the nominee for the best single producer of the 24th GMA and the best instrumental album producer of the 32th GMA.

SkyCastle Music was founded by musician Chris HOU. Adhering to the principle of producing high-quality music ,SkyCastle Music famous for its production in original soundtrack music , pop music production, and songwriting .

Amine BOUHAFA

Composer

Amine BOUHAFA is a multi-awarded French music composer and conductor. With more than 70 scores for films and TV, Amine received a Cesar (French Oscar) for his score for Timbuktu, he also won the "France-Music-Sacem" award, and the "Michel Legrand Best Composer award" for his score of "Summit of the gods". Raised in a cultural and musical mix, Amine was born in Tunisia, he grow up listening to jazz and world music. Later, he studied orchestration and composition in Paris conservatoire.
Amine travels in cinematographic and musical genres, from classical to world and electronic music, from independent films to mainstream films and TV shows, developing a personal style, and an intimate approach.
Amine composed the score of Beauty and the Dogs by Kaouther Ben Hania, for which he won the Best Sound Creation Award (Cannes, Un Certain Regard), Amin and Les Harkis by Philippe Faucon, Gagarine by Fanny Liattard and Jérémy Trouill (best score award in Rome and Bordeaux International Festival), "You will die at twenty" (best score in Odessa International festival), Nos Frangins by Rachid Bouchareb and Alma Viva by Cristel Alves-Meira.
Amine has also a prolific Music for TV career with more than 40 TV show scores among them "Kingdom of Fire" by Peter Weber (The girl with a pearl earing),"The adventures of Paddington" (Emmy award) and more recently "Le monde de Demain". He his currently working on new Nteflix original "Wonderman".

Leading figures, both from home and abroad, are invited to speak on the current and future trends in the music industry, including music production, market exploration, technological innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration.