Mark Korven

Nascimento : , Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada

História

Mark Korven is a Toronto based music composer for film and television.

Filmes

Mergulho Noturno
Original Music Composer
Ray Waller é um ex-jogador de beisebol da liga principal forçado a se aposentar precocemente devido a uma doença degenerativa. Ele se muda para uma nova casa com sua preocupada esposa Eve e seus dois filhos. Secretamente esperando, contra as probabilidades, retornar ao beisebol profissional, Ray convence Eve de que a piscina cintilante do quintal da nova casa será divertida para as crianças e fornecerá terapia física para ele. No entanto, um segredo sombrio no passado da casa desencadeará uma força malévola que arrastará a família para as profundezas de um terror inescapável.
O Telefone Negro
Original Music Composer
Finney Shaw um tímido, mas perspicaz, rapaz de 13 anos, é raptado por um sádico assassino que o enclausura numa cave à prova de som, onde gritar não vai resolver nada. Quando um telefone desligado começa a tocar, Finney descobre que consegue ouvir as vozes das vítimas anteriores do assassino. E elas estão decididas a assegurar que o que lhes aconteceu não acontece a Finney…
Resident Evil: Bem-Vindo a Raccoon City
Original Music Composer
O que já foi um dia a casa da gigante farmacêutica em expansão Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City, é agora uma cidade agonizante do meio-oeste. O êxodo da empresa transformou a cidade em um deserto, com um grande mal fermentando escondido abaixo da superfície. Quando esse mal é libertado, um grupo de sobreviventes deve trabalhar juntos para descobrir a verdade por trás da Umbrella enquanto buscam viver por mais uma noite.
Ninguém Sai Vivo
Original Music Composer
Desesperada, uma imigrante ilegal do México se muda para uma pensão decadente nos EUA. Ela nem imagina que seu pior pesadelo está prestes a começar.
Morbus
Writer
A young couple discovers a strange road block on an isolated country road.
O Farol
Original Music Composer
Início do século XX. Thomas Wake, responsável pelo farol de uma ilha isolada, contrata o jovem Ephraim Winslow para substituir o ajudante anterior e colaborar nas tarefas diárias. No entanto, o acesso ao farol é mantido fechado ao novato, que se torna cada vez mais curioso com este espaço privado. Enquanto os dois homens se conhecem e se provocam, Ephraim fica obcecado em descobrir o que acontece naquele espaço fechado, ao mesmo tempo em que fenômenos estranhos começam a acontecer ao seu redor.
Campo do Medo
Original Music Composer
Os irmãos Becky e Cal entram em um matagal quando ouvem o choro de uma criança. Ao seguirem o barulho, a dupla percebe que não há caminho de volta. Isolados do mundo e incapazes de escapar, eles logo descobrem que a única coisa pior do que se perderem é serem encontrados.
A Maldição de Isabelle
Original Music Composer
O sonho de um jovem casal de começar uma família se quebra enquanto eles caem nas profundezas da paranóia e precisam lutar para sobreviver a uma presença maligna que não quer nada além de suas próprias vidas.
O Desvio
Original Music Composer
Holly parece ter tudo encaminhado. Dois filhos, uma casa grande, um bom trabalho como professora e um marido com a carreira em ascensão. Mas há coisas que indicam que nem tudo está bem. Sua insônia. Seus remédios para a insônia. Os sonhos que tem por causa dos remédios. A chegada de sua irmã distante e um rato invadindo sua casa também não ajuda. Com o peso de um segredo obscuro, Holly logo começa a perder a sanidade.
Ecos na Escuridão
Original Music Composer
Um jovem acidentalmente cria um dispositivo que amplifica a atividade paranormal existente em sua casa, possibilitando o retorno de espíritos de pessoas amadas e libertando também algo muito pior.
The Kingdom: How Fungi Made Our World
Original Music Composer
You find fungi in Antarctica and in nuclear reactors. They live inside your lungs and your skin is covered with them. Fungi are the most under appreciated and unexplained organisms, yet they could cure you from smallpox and turn cardboard boxes into forests. They could even transform Mars into Eden. There are vastly more fungi species than plants and each and every one of them play a crucial role in life’s support systems. Join us on a journey into the mysterious world of Fungi to witness their beauty, unravel their mysteries and discover how this secret kingdom is essential to life on Earth, and may in fact hold the key to our future.
O Despertar do Psicopata
Original Music Composer
Um jovem casal que passa por um mau momento descobre uma série de materiais de filme que pertencem a um sanguinário assassino em série. Dispostos a lucrar com os vídeos elaboram um plano.
Beyond Trauma
Music
Most people experience trauma at least once. For many, the memories fade with time. But for some, they make it impossible to move beyond trauma.
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Original Music Composer
Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maverick American journalist I.F. Stone, whose long one-man crusade against government deception lives on in the work of such contemporary filmmakers and journalists as Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, David Corn, and Matt Taibbi.
A Bruxa
Original Music Composer
O casal William e Katherine leva uma vida cristã com suas cinco crianças em uma comunidade extremamente religiosa, até serem expulsos do local por sua fé diferente daquela permitida pelas autoridades. A família passa a morar num local isolado, à beira do bosque, sofrendo com a escassez de comida. Um dia, o bebê recém-nascido desaparece. Enquanto buscam respostas, cada membro da família descobre seus piores medos.
The Great Martian War 1913–1917
Original Music Composer
Documentary-drama recounting the Martian War of 1913–1917. Europe was on tenterhooks in the 2nd decade of the 20th century, everyone was expecting a Great War between the major European powers. But then, in 1913, something crashed into the forests of SW Germany. Troops were sent to investigate but were wiped out. Martian fighting machines began making their way across Western Europe and the countries of Europe combined forces to resist them. With aspects taken from ‘The War of the Worlds’ by H.G. Wells and from WWI itself, this dramatisation presents a documentary style look at events as they unfolded and the effect they had of our world today. Lots of references to real events including the mass attacks and defeats as men were thrown against machines on the Western front, the Christmas truce and the Angel of Mons, America's isolationism and late entry into the conflict, the worldwide Spanish flu epidemic that killed more people than the war, and many other things.
The Emperor's Lost Harbour
Original Music Composer
In the heart of a metropolitan city of 15 million people and among the construction of a new billion-dollar transportation network, an archaeological sensation has been discovered: the ancient harbour of Theodosious, lost from the history books for over 1000 years.
Tiger Spirit
Original Music Composer
Korea is a divided nation. Filmmaker Min Sook Lee sets out on a revelatory, emotion-charged journey into Korea’s broken heart, exploring the rhetoric and realism of reunification through the extraordinary stories of ordinary people.
A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman
Original Music Composer
Documentary about internationally-renowned author Ariel Dorfman, the third generation of his family to know exile. His father's leftwing beliefs saw the family uprooted from both Argentina and the US, before settling in Chile. When Allende came to power, Ariel was a prominent member of his circle, but the bloody 1973 coup saw many of his friends and colleagues killed or disappeared and Ariel forced into exile again. Peter Raymont journeys with Ariel as he looks back on his life. (Storyville)
Apertando as Mãos do Diabo
Original Music Composer
A história do canadense Romeo Dallaire e seu comando das Nações Unidas durante o genocídio em Ruanda, em 1994.
Poderosas de Hollywood
Original Music Composer
Três mulheres talentosas (Farrah Fawcett, Melissa Gilbert, Robin Givens) tentam suceder na indústria do entretenimento e em seus relacionamentos.
Falling Through
Original Music Composer
A newly hired security expert on the American Embassy in Paris questions who to trust, as he investigates an elaborate passport faking scheme.
The Sheldon Kennedy Story
Original Music Composer
Alberta (Canada) rural farm-boy Sheldon Kennedy feels abused by dad when punished for poor performances compared to big brother Troy. being recruited for professional ice-hockey at age 14 seems an ideal way out, straight to a party animal's good life. Yet after a Vegas marriage with Jana and hearing she's pregnant, Sheldon breaks down and tells her what's eating at him for years: coach Graham James, whoa arranged for him to be transferred each time James was, sexually abused Sheldon, who fears to be laughed away as a queer and loose his only career avenue if he goes public
Cubo
Original Music Composer
Um policial , um ladrão, uma matemática, uma psicóloga, um arquiteto e um jovem autista são misteriosamente presos em um labirinto de alta tecnologia. Sem comida nem água, eles precisam encontrar um meio de sair do local. Mas precisam também tomar cuidado para não acionar armadilhas letais, que surgem em estranhos cubos.
Giant Mine
Music Arranger
CBC's dramatic account of the tragedy of Yellowknife's Giant Mine, in which 9 miners were killed during a bitter labour dispute.
Lyddie
Music
Lyddie (Tanya Allen) faces a daunting task: She's struggling to reunite her family and save their farm. To do that, she takes a job at a cotton mill and, with the help of Diana (who's toiled in the mills since age 10), learns that there are risks involved with being a factory girl -- namely, dangerous working conditions and low wages. Soon, Lyddie finds herself in the forefront of a suffrage movement to better those appalling conditions.
Joe's Wedding
Original Music Composer
Joe loves to rock and be wild, but the time has come for him to settle down. He is to marry a conservative daughter of a well-to-do man. On his wedding day, a fiery female artist kidnaps him in order to blackmail his future father-in-law.
Power
Music
When Hydro-Québec announced its intention to proceed with the enormous James Bay II hydroelectric project, the 15,000 Cree who live in the region decided to stand up to the giant utility. With unprecedented access to key figures like Cree leader Matthew Coon Come and American environmental activist Robert Kennedy Jr., Power is the compelling, behind-the-scenes story of the Cree's five-year battle to save the Great Whale River and their traditional way of life.
Henry & Verlin
Original Music Composer
Verlin is 9 years old and does not talk, nor does he even seem to hear. Henry, a child-like adult, befriends Verlin and pulls him from his shell. Verlin's mother mistrusts Henry, who she feels is dangerous.
Lawn and Order
Original Music Composer
Journeying through cities, suburbs, plains and deserts, Lawn and Order is a fun, hilarious and touching documentary which reveals the zany and obsessive fascination North Americans have with their front yard.
White Room
Original Music Composer
Norm, a confused young man, lives two lives, one in and one out of reality. One night, he witnesses the murder of rock video star Madelaine X and feels guilty, as he did nothing to prevent it. At Madelaine’s funeral, he meets a mysterious woman in black. Norm then gets a job at a news stand through a Cindy Lauper like girl called Zelda. They discuss the mystery around Madelaine’s death.
Between Two Worlds
Music
This feature film is a documentary portrait of Joseph Idlout, a man who was once the world's most famous Inuit. Unknown to most Canadians today, Idlout was the subject of many films and books, and one of the Inuit hunters pictured for many years on the back of Canada's $2 bill. In this film Idlout's son, Peter Paniloo, takes us on a journey through his father's life - that of a man caught "between two worlds."
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
Original Music Composer
A aspirante a fotógrafa Polly consegue um trabalho numa galeria dirigida pela curadora e pintora Gabrielle. Uma forte conexão se estabelece entre elas, pois Polly idolatra a obra de Gabrielle. No entanto, ao conhecer sua amante Mary, Polly percebe que Gabrielle não é exatamente quem ela parece ser.