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![[press release]](../../images/banner/press_release.gif)
FILM COMPOSER JAMES DOOLEY
TAKES “FIRST FLIGHT”
First Original CG Short from
DreamWorks Animation
(Hollywood,CA) Composer James Dooley scores “First Flight,” the new DreamWorks animated short film which premiered recently at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas. James provides the score for this touching animated short about a man and a bird’s first attempt at flight. This is the first original CG short from DreamWorks Animation and marks the directing debut of animator Cameron Hood (“The Prince of Egypt,” “Shark Tale”).
Most recently, Dooley provided the score to the nation’s #1 film, “When a Stranger Calls,” the first film to score more than $20 million on a Super Bowl Weekend opening. Dooley’s recent credits also include DreamWorks’ animated short “A Christmas Caper” starring the penguins from the hit film “Madagascar,” on which he previously teamed with Hans Zimmer. This short was seen in theaters this past fall before the Oscar winning claymation feature “Wallace and Grommit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” for which Dooley provides additional music. Dooley also mixed and scored the new animated film, Urmel Aus Dem Eis, or Impy's Island as it will be known in the US. The film is based on a German children's book about a dinosaur that hatches in modern times on an island where animals learn to speak. Additionally, Dooley has scored some of the industry’s most successful videogames including “Socom 3, US Navy SEALs,” which he recorded at London’s Air Lyndhurst Hall with a 70-piece orchestra.
James Dooley is a graduate of New York University where he majored in Music Composition. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles to study film composition with such composers as Christopher Young and Elmer Bernstein. He joined Media Ventures in 1999 and collaborated with Zimmer both as his Chief Technical Engineer and as a composer. In addition, Dooley has partnered with CDBABY.com to donate the proceeds from sales of his “The Mars Underground” soundtrack to the Red Cross national disaster relief effort. “The Mars Underground” is a landmark documentary about renowned aerospace scientist and visionary, Dr. Robert Zubrin quest for Mars exploration.
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