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.
In a desolate 17th-century village teetering on the edge of starvation during a merciless winter, the townsfolk live in thrall to an ancient evil that stalks the deep, snow-choked woods. They know it only as "The Wolf," a malevolent intelligence far older and more cunning than any mere beast, with an unholy ability to mimic the voices of its victims to lure new prey into its grasp. When her grandmother falls gravely ill, a pragmatic and resilient young woman named Valerie is tasked with a seemingly suicidal journey: to cross the Wolf's hunting grounds and deliver the family's last precious food stores. Armed with little more than a red cloak for warmth and a wood axe for protection, Valerie steps into the suffocating silence of the forest, knowing that every snap of a twig and every whisper on the wind could be a harbinger of a gruesome death. Her trek quickly devolves into a grueling test of sanity as the creature begins its hunt, tormenting her with the phantom voices of lost loved ones and playing on her deepest fears. The journey culminates not at a cozy cottage, but at a charnel house where a horrific, skin-wearing abomination awaits her. Trapped and with no hope of rescue, Valerie discovers the grim truth behind the village's legends and is forced into a primal, blood-soaked battle for survival. To defeat the monster that wears the faces of those she loves, she must shed her own humanity and become something the Wolf will truly fear.
