PH Quist Music

2011-04-28T16:27:00.000-07:00

World premiere

Mothers of Bedford is about to be launched into the world. The film makes its World Premiere at Hot Docs film festival at the end of this month. It was my pleasure to score this Film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbrFOyzwKr0

MOTHERS OF BEDFORD is a straightforward accounting of the fastest growing prison population in the United States. It is shocking in its statistics, yet moving in its depiction of women who are learning to take responsibility - for their actions, for themselves, and for their children. These women tell their stories to the camera - to us - without excuses. And Jenifer McShane makes us care about them simply by showing us their lives, and their children's lives, without manipulaton. MOTHERS OF BEDFORD is a beautiful documentary about a group of women that we've never seen before in this fashion.

--Marian Masone, Film Society of Lincoln Center

Buck does it Again!! Wins Full Frame Audience Award

2011-04-19T09:36:00.000-07:00

“Buck,” Cindy Meehl’s documentary on Brannaman’s unique career, took home the Audience Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, months after it claimed the same prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

It’s hard to resist Brannaman’s charms. His gift isn’t with horses – though he knows how to soothe those sometimes-savage beasts. Instead, Buck clicks with owners, explaining how a horse acts as a mirror into its rider’s soul (and some cowboys sure don’t like what they see). “Buck” certainly is a crowd-pleaser, and I can see why audiences at Full Frame were wooed.

A Man A Plan A Canal Panama

2011-01-20T06:00:00.000-08:00

"Panama Canal" on PBS-January 24th!

Music Composed by Peter Rundquist

Another Bang Up collaboration with the Folks at Insignia Films.

On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world’s two largest oceans and signaling America’s emergence as a global superpower. American ingenuity and innovation had succeeded where, just a few years earlier, the French had failed disastrously. But the U.S. paid a price for victory.

Buck the Movie is going to Sundance!!

2010-12-01T16:42:00.000-08:00

The Votes are in and "Buck" a documentary I helped to score about Buck Brannerman is one of 16 films from a field of over 300 chosen for the 2011 Sundance Festival.

"The Horse Whisperer" may be the stuff of Hollywood legend but the cowboy who inspired the novel and the film is very real. Buck Brannaman - master-horseman, trick-roper, raconteur and no-nonsense philosopher - is a true grit cowboy who travels the world enlightening his followers with a wisdom that's frequently more about human relationships than about horses. As Buck says in his signature, hard won wit. "Often instead of helping people with horse problems, I'm helping horses with people problems".

BUCK, a poetic and visually stunning feature documentary, follows Brannaman from an abusive childhood that almost “broke” him, through early fame and foster care, to a life of fiercely dedicated work as a teacher, who possesses near magical abilities as he dramatically transforms horses with understanding and respect. He often expounds on the similarities of redirecting the mind and energy of troubled horses with the trials of parenting children.

The astonishing strength of character it takes Buck to overcome and transcend the darkness in his past is poignantly reflected in the relationship with his youngest daughter Reata, who is becoming nearly as good a rider and roper as her dad. Driven by his mission to enlighten his followers, he spends nine months a year away from home. He travels alone in his horse trailer from clinic to sold-out clinic, from Maine to California, from Beeville, Texas, to Libby, Montana, dealing with often fractious horses and humans. But as he says to his students: “If you got a taste of what I’m talking about, you couldn't get enough of it. You’d rather do that than eat. You may spend your whole life chasing it, but it’s a good thing to chase."

RETRO FUNKY for Doctor VIN

2010-07-01T06:40:00.000-07:00

Ahhh Dr.VIN I churned out the Porn Funk for this one.
It's so wrong it's just right.

College Boys Live now on DVD

2010-05-18T10:39:00.000-07:00

A movie I scored for director George O'Donnell is out on DVD .

Check out the TRAILER

In a quiet Orlando, Florida, suburb three young men struggle to escape the wreckage of their pasts and create new lives for themselves. Their new home is CollegeBoysLive.com, a voyeur webcam house rigged with 32 cameras, where their every move is watched by thousands of paying members. The site’s creator claims CollegeBoysLive.com is simply about showing that “it’s okay to be gay.” But the neighbors insist it’s a pornographic whorehouse and sue to have them evicted. This intimate and provocative documentary examines a complex subculture, but at its heart is the universal search for family and acceptance.

Variety
"College Boys Live exerts a bizarre and dramatic fascination by observing that Orwellian experiment-cum-entertainment over a six-month haul"

2010-05-13T07:18:00.000-07:00

The New Recruits coming to PBS 6:15:2010

The New Recruits is a feature documentary about a battalion of jet-setting business students armed with a radical plan to end global poverty: charge poor people for goods and services. They spend one year struggling with startups to peddle drip irrigation in Pakistan, LED lights in India, and toilet service in Kenya.

The New Recruits takes an unflinching look at social entrepreneurship, a movement touted as the new alternative to charity—its ideals, practitioners, and realities. An unlikely cross between The Apprentice and Slumdog Millionaire, The New Recruits is a hilarious, evocative, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride along a road paved with good intentions.

Preview Here:

"CHALK TALK" score for Gatorade Web Documentary

2010-05-05T08:21:00.000-07:00

Go inside the G series Mobile Locker Room with St. Louis Rams Defensive End
Chris Long.

Music by Peter Rundquist

http://www.gatorade.com/default.aspx#mobilelockerroom?s=chalk-talk

Roads To Memphis

2010-05-01T12:38:00.000-07:00

Check out my most recent filmscore on PBS' American Experience.

On April 4, 1968, escaped convict James Earl Ray shot and killed Dr. Martin Luther King. This is the fateful narrative of the killer and his prey, set against the seething, turbulent forces in American society at that time.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/memphis/