Age: 47
male
Emmy Award winning composer Bear McCreary was first launched into pop culture with his groundbreaking score to the hit series Battlestar Galactica, that was lauded by Variety as “the most innovative music on TV today.” It “fits the action so perfectly, it’s almost devastating: a sci-fi score like no other” (NPR). Io9.com ranked McCreary one of the Ten Best Science Fiction Composers of All Time, and recently WIRED Magazine declared him one of only five “Secret Weapons” of the television industry. McCreary was recently voted “Composers’ Choice Composer of the Year – Television” by his peers in ASCAP, the first award of its kind. Bear has conducted orchestral performances of his music throughout North America and Europe, appearing at Fimucité in Tenerife, and the International Film Music Festival in Úbeda, Spain. In July 2014, his music was performed by the L.A. Philharmonic and L.A. Master Choraleat the Hollywood Bowl, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Attending the prestigious Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, Bear completed degrees in composition and recording arts. However, his professional training came from film music legend Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mocking Bird). Bear was one of Bernstein’s select protégés, and learned the tools of the trade working with and orchestrating for the maestro. Bear spent his childhood immersed in film and television music; he is delighted now to contribute back to the genres that inspired him.
On a small Caribbean island, an American crew lead by Bart Thompson are blasting the sea bed to build a harbor. In doing so, they accidentally uncover an ice cold underwater pocket where they find perfectly preserved dinosaurs that have been frozen in suspended animation for million years. They remove the beasts to the shore where during a storm at night the beasts are struck by lightning and come back to life. The unsuspecting islanders have no idea that the dinosaurs are alive because of the storm and are now roaming the island. The unscrupulous island manager, Mike Hacker, also finds a Neanderthal man, who is also awakened and befriends a young local orphan island boy named Julio where they get into mischief. Now Bart and the others must find a way to protect themselves from the rampaging beasts.
