Workshop
Sound Shapes Scene
A Live Scoring Workshop
Join award-winning director Lorna Nickson Brown, composer-guitarist Jonathan Escoto Brown, and singer-sound artist Anjeline de Dios for an experimental and accessible workshop on the creative possibilities of live film scoring.
Through collaborative exercises inspired by the facilitators' experiences in filmmaking, composition, and sound improvisation, participants will learn the basics of interweaving sound-making with film editing to compose cinematic narratives that are intimate, sensory, and revelatory.
This workshop is open and free to the public: all levels welcome, no prior musical or filmmaking experience required.
"Sound Shapes Scene" is part of The Net, a British–Filipino film co-production project sponsored by the British Council's Connections Through Culture 2024 grant programme.
- Date
- Saturday, 31 May 2025
- Time
- 3:00–4:30 PM / 4:45–6:15 PM
- Location
- 1F Projects, La Fuerza Plaza, Makati
- Facilitators
- Anjeline de Dios (PH), Jonathan Escoto Brown (UK), Lorna Nickson Brown (UK)
- Supported by
- British Council, Copper Thread
- Programme
- The Net (Connections Through Culture 2024)
- Admission
- Free, limited slots
- Poster Design
- @cloathes_studio
Artist Bios
Anjeline de Dios
Anjeline de Dios is a Kraków-based Filipina writer, singer, teacher, and reader whose work sits at the intersection of cultural geography, experimental sound practice, and meditation training. She holds a BA in philosophy from Ateneo de Manila University, an MA in philosophy from Linköping University (Sweden), and a PhD in geography from the National University of Singapore (2015). She is the co-editor (with Lily Kong) of Handbook on the Geographies of Creativity (Edward Elgar, 2020) and the author of Living Song, Living Labor, an ethnography of overseas Filipino musicians. Using an RC-505 loop station, she improvises songscapes that blur distinctions between meditation, sound art, and choral music. Performances and residencies include Bałtycka Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej (Poland), Listening Biennial 2023 (Philippines), Lingnan University (Hong Kong), Studio Plesungan (Indonesia), SAVVY Contemporary (Germany), the ArtsEverywhere Festival (Canada), the Goethe Institut (Southeast Asia), and the Philippine Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Jonathan Escoto Brown
Jonathan Escoto Brown is a composer and guitarist of British–Filipino heritage based in Birmingham, UK. A graduate of Leeds College of Music with performances at the Royal Albert Hall, he composed the original score for Dog Run, which won the Grand Prize Award at the Oscar-qualifying 41st Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival and earned him a Crystal Pine Award nomination and longlisting at the British Short Film Awards. He has been lead guitarist and a primary composer for the multicultural Birmingham reggae band KIOKO since 2014; the band has supported UK reggae legends UB40 on a 40-date tour and toured alongside Lee Scratch Perry, The Wailers, and The Specials.
Lorna Nickson Brown
Lorna Nickson Brown is an award-winning film director, writer, producer, and actress from Birmingham, England. Her short Dog Run (2023) won the 2023 Breaking Boundaries Grand Prize Award at the 41st Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival; her earlier BFI NETWORK short Ned & Me (2020) was selected for the 2021 International Competition at the 43rd Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. She has also worked on The Jetty (2024) and Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025). Selected by Creative UK as one of ten emerging female filmmakers in the British creative industries, she is currently in the 2025 DIRECTORS UK Inspire Programme, mentored by BAFTA-winning director Saul Dibb. She is leading the development of The Net, a British–Philippines feature co-production with British Council R&D funding — the project this workshop sits under.
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