Several films Wataru has worked on as composer, were awarded in significant film festivals. The awards include Palm d'Or (Best Short Picture) at The Cannes Film Festival, Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival and Best Short Drama at The Emmy (College Television Awards). He has also worked as orchestrator for film and TV such as "Dungeons and Dragons" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (musical episode)."

Wataru Hokoyama B. August 24th, 1974. Aizu, Japan Moved to the States alone to study music at the age of 16, Wataru, an alumni of Interlochen Arts Academy, studied classical music composition, conducting and film scoring at The Cleveland Institute of Music and University of Southern California (Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program) with some of the well established composers such as Elmer Bernstein, Christopher Young, Donald Erb and Alan Gilbert (current music director of New York Philharmonic) respectively.

Besides film and TV, Wataru actively writes concert music. His concert works have been commissioned and been performed at various occasions in the United States, Japan and Europe. He has been commissioned by The U.S. Airforce Band to premiere a new piece for the 400th Anniversary of Jamestown's settlement and the 60th anniversary of U.S. Air Force. In Japan, he was commissioned to write music for the official ceremony of The Imperial Family of Japan, "Ikuju Ceremony." Wataru worked with artists as arranger such as Clay Aiken for his U.S. tour, and Jared Leto (30 Seconds To Mars) for their album "Beautiful Lie" recording.

In 2007, Wataru began working in the video game industry by writing scores for SONY Playstation3 game"AFRIKA" using a 104-piece orchestra to record at the SONY Scoring Stage.

In 2008, he worked on CAPCOM's hit series game "Resident Evil 5" for the additional music, orchestration and conducting to record at the 20th FOX Newman Scoring Stage with another 100+ piece orchestra.

In 2008, Wataru won Best Original Score with his "AFRIKA" score at Hollywood Music Awards. In 2009, Wataru received a nomination as Best Original Score for Video Game at International Film Music Critics Association Awards. Wataru was also presented Rookie of the Year Award along with the 2 wins (Music of the Year and Best Original Instrumental) at Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G) Awards at GDC '09.

Wataru resides in Los Angeles.

excerpt from http://hokoyama.com/bio

Allan Nicholls wrote the screenplays, A Wedding and A Perfect Couple with Robert Altman. They shared a much-coveted British Academy Award nomination and a Writers Guild Best Screenplay nomination for A Wedding. A Perfect Couple was honored as the closing film at the weeklong Altman's Films of the '70's retrospective at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993.

Allan went on to write the film Dead Ringer, starring Meat Loaf in 1980 and Leonard Cohen's I Am a Hotel in 1983, for which he earned the Golden Rose and the Anik Award. In 1988, Allan produced the Tanner '88 series with Gary Trudeau and Robert Altman for HBO, which involved presenting a fictional presidential candidate to the entire country - the first reality television show. Allan also wrote material for the films The Player and Pret A Porter.

Allan worked on Saturday Night Live from 1989 through 1992 as the segment reel producer writing parody title sequences, commercials and short film inclusions for the live show. Allan has written a rock opera, McNulty, performed by the Canadian rock group, Mashmakhan and is currently completing an original screenplay Was That Me?

Other credits to Allan's name include: a five-year Broadway career in several rock musicals including Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar. He also starred in such films as Nashville, Slap Shot, and Welcome to L.A. Allan served as assistant director and associate producer on numerous films including The Player, Short Cuts and Dead Man Walking.

excerpt from www.tischasia.nyu.edu.sg/object/AllanNicholls.html

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Associate Professor of Film Scoring at Berklee College of Music, Jon Klein has composition and arranger credits for television, commercials, film scores, jingles, and corporate films. Klein has a B.A. from Brown University, and brings extensive studio experience into the classroom, even authoring three editing software programs.

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Chris developed a fascination for Asian Cinema, specifically Korean cinema, during his time studying computer science at Virginia Tech. Upon graduating and working in LA as an office PA for Ridley Scott and Associates (RSA), he moved to South Korea to learn the language and study the cinema of his favorite directors, some of whom include Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-Ho, and Kim Ji-woon. Chris shot his first short film, "Do Not Disturb," while living in Seoul. Also while living there, he discovered that NYU had opened a program in Singapore. It was the perfect opportunity for him to go to NYU and stay in the region he wanted to continue working in. He is currently finishing his first year of the grad film program at Tisch Asia and "WHAM" is his first film in the program.

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Mark Hadley is a guitarist and composer unconfined by the accepted definitions of genre, and is continually trying to push the envelope with his music. Born and raised in Rochester, NY, Mark began his musical journey with piano and trumpet lessons as a child until getting his first guitar at the age of 11. He played mostly pop/rock music until he began to study jazz with Bob Sneider at Eastman School of Music during high school. Mark won several local music awards throughout high school, and got accepted to Berklee College of Music on scholarship his senior year. At Berklee, Mark has had the privilege of studying with incredible musicians such as Mick Goodrick, Tim Miller, Hal Crook, Dave Santoro and David Gilmore. He is pursuing a degree in Film Scoring and Performance, and anticipates graduating in 2011. In spring of 2009, Mark won grand prize in Berklee's Learning Center annual Film Scoring Contest for his original score to the short film "Michael's Rose" (Listen to Mark's winning piece here). You can catch up with his upcoming performances and listen to some of his music at www.myspace.com/markhadleymusic.

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