Today is Women’s History Day, and we’re celebrating by watching the Los Angeles-scored, critically acclaimed documentary, HE NAMED ME MALALA.
The film is an intimate portrait of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai, who was targeted by the Taliban and severely wounded by a gunshot when returning home on her school bus in Pakistan’s Swat Valley.
The then 15-year-old was singled out, along with her father, for advocating for girls’ education, and the attack on her sparked an outcry from supporters around the world. She miraculously survived and is now a leading campaigner for girls’ education globally as co-founder of the Malala Fund.
Academy-award winning documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for ‘Superman’) shows us how Malala, her father Zia and her family are committed to fighting for education for all girls worldwide. The film gives us an inside glimpse into this extraordinary young girl’s life – from her close relationship with her father who inspired her love for education, to her impassioned speeches at the UN, to her everyday life with her parents and brothers.
“One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.” – Malala
‘He Named Me Malala’ Orchestra
Synths recorded at DeepSleep Studio, Pacific Palisades
Strings recorded at Sony Scoring Stage, Culver City & The Bridge Recording, Glendale
January-February 2015
Composer
Thomas Newman
Synth Programming
John Beasley
George Doering
Steven Tavaglione
Strings @ Sony
George Doering, leader
John Acosta
Jeff Bandy
Steven Bernstein
Dmitri Bovaird
Jacqueline Brand
Darius Campo
Kevin Connolly
Matthew Cooker
Mario Deleon
Thomas Diener
Lisa Dondlinger
Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick
Timothy Eckert
Nina Evtuhov
Eugene Fischer
Christine Frank
Matthew Funes
Jennie Hansen
Thomas Harte
Melissa Hasin
Tamara Hatwan
John Hayhurst
Vahe Hayrikyan
Elizabeth Hedman
Paula Hochhalter
Sharon Jackson
Maia Jasper
Dennis Karmazyn
Peter Kent
Christian Kollgaard
Phillip Ian Levy
Marina Manukian
Michael Markman
Liane Mautner
Ed Meares
Leslie Morris
ARmen Movsessian
Jennifer Munday
Cheryl Norman-Brick
Aaron Oltman
Sid Page
Kathryn Reddish
Carolyn Riley
Kathleen Robertson
Julie Marie Rogers
Jay Rosen
Erik Rynearson
Christina Soule
Michael Valerio
David Walther
Yu-Tong Wang
Tiffany Yi Hu
Xiaodan Zheng
Strings @ The Bridge
Thomas Newman, leader
Robert Berg
Darius Campo
Kevin Connolly
Meredith Crawford
Steve Dress
Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick
Nina Evtuhov
Marlow Fisher
Barry Gold
Keith Greene
Jessica Guideri
Thomas Harte
Melissa Hasin
John Hayhurst
Elizabeth Hedman
Amy Hershberger
Maia Jaslper
Christian Kollgaard
Gina Kronstadt
Timothy Laundauer
Dimitrie Leivici
Jennifer Gordon Levin
Carolyn Litchfield
Michael Markman
Robert Matsuda
Victoria Miskolczy
Bruce Morgenthaler
Sid Page
Sara Parkins
Carol Pool
Kathryn Reddish
J.A.C. Redford
Cassandra Richburg
Carolyn Riley
Kathleen Robertson
Julie Marie Rogers
Jay Rosen
Yu-Tong Wang
Christina Soule
Ashoka Thiagarajan
Sarah Thornblade
Contractor
Leslie Morris
Orchestrator
J.A.C. Redford
Copyists
Bob Skinnell
Terence Bonnell
Elizabeth Finch
Mikhail Morgovsky
Timothy Rodier
David Volpe
