New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ CineMedia Promotions) DEAR WHITE PEOPLE premieres on Wednesday, June 18th, at 7:30PM (Regal Cinema L.A. Live-Theater 1).
"The great thing about working with [writer/director] Justin Simien on this film is that he wanted a wide and diverse range of music. We hear classical, hiphop, electronica, jazz, etc. and it all makes sense and really serves the storytelling. I got to play around with many different textures alongside orchestral instrumentation. And of course, as a pianist I loved being able to add this to the score particularly in the 'love theme' that I created. This was based on Justin's appreciation of Yusef Lateef's love theme in the movie SPARTACUS." - Kathryn Bostic
ABOUT DEAR WHITE PEOPLE
A satire about being a black face in a very white place.
DEAR WHITE PEOPLE follows the stories of four black students at an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over a popular "African American" themed party thrown by white students. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the film will explore racial identity in "post-racial"
America while weaving a universal story of forging one's unique path in the world.
"This film isn't about "white racism", or racism at all. DEAR WHITE PEOPLE is about identity. It's about the difference between how the mass culture responds to a person because of their race and who they understand themselves to truly be. And this societal conflict appears to be one that many share." - Justin Simien Writer/Director/Producer
ABOUT KATHRYN BOSTIC
Composer and singer/songwriter Kathryn Bostic is known for her work on film, TV and live theater. Bostic is a recipient of the prestigious Sundance Fellowship for Film Scoring, BMI Conducting Fellowship, ASCAP/Disney Musical Theater Fellowship and a Film Independent Project Involve Honoree. She is also a recipient of a 2013 Sundance Documentary Film Scoring Fellowship that took place at the renowned Skywalker Ranch.
Kathryn's work, on the soundtrack and score for Ava DuVernay's MIDDLE OF NOWHERE was awarded Best
Music in a Film, by the African American Film Critics Association. She also created the score for Ava's previous films VENUS VS and I WILL FOLLOW.
In addition to her work in film, Bostic has written for Broadway, most notably collaborating with the award-winning playwright August Wilson on GEM OF THE OCEAN and various productions of his last play RADIO GOLF. Her work on Broadway also includes BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO starring
Robin Williams, written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph and helmed by award winning director Moises Kaufman. She is an Ovation Awards nominee and a 2011
Drama Desk nominee for "Outstanding
Music in a Play" and her score of music and ambient textures in BENGAL TIGER garnered a win in the Sound Design category for this collaboration as well as a Tony nomination.
Bostic's scores can be heard in productions with a lineup of award winning directors and writers including; Justin Simien's feature hit DEAR WHITE PEOPLE which premiered in the Sundance 2014 Film Festival and won Best Breakout Talent Award; MIDDLE OF NOWHERE by Ava DuVernay winner of Sundance 2012 Film Festival Best
Director for Dramatic Feature, the critically acclaimed THE NEW BLACK by Yoruba Richen, and the hit production of August Wilson's JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE directed by Phylicia Rashad at the Mark Taper Forum. Kathryn was selected by award winning director Sam Pollard to score the upcoming PBS American Masters piece AUGUST WILSON - THE GROUND ON WHICH I STAND which coming soon to PBS.
Kathryn has toured and/or recorded with many renowned artists including k.d. Lang, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Nas,
David Byrne, and Patti Austin.
