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Karl Sölve Steven

Karl Sölve Steven is an award-winning New Zealand/Swedish composer whose recent work includes Uproar (with Julian Dennison, Rhys Darby and Minnie Driver, d. Hamish Bennett and Paul Middleditch), as well as Never Look Away directed by Lucy Lawless and scored with Jason Smith, premiering at the World Documentary Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and SXSW. His score for Ant Timpson's black comedy thriller Come To Daddy (starring Elijah Wood) was celebrated by reviewers (Variety, Rue Morgue, Film Music Magazine), won the APRA Screen Music Award for Best Music in a Feature Film, and was among the Film Music Institute's Best Scores of 2020. Other recent work includes Nathan Price's feature documentary for Universal The Subtle Art of Not Giving A #@%! (Winner, Best Original Music in a Feature Film APRA Screen Music Awards 2023). Karl’s soundtrack to the Black Hands series (prod. Warner Bros, series producer Robin Scholes) won Best Original Score in a Series at the APRA Screen Music Awards 2021. 2024 sees Karl scoring Ant Timpson's Bookworm, starring Elijah Wood, Nell Fisher, and Michael Smiley.

selected credits:

BOOKWORM (Film) d. Ant Timpson (2024)

NEVER LOOK AWAY (Documentary) d. Lucy Lawless (2024)

UPROAR (Film) d. Paul Middleditch & Hamish Bennett (2023)

THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A #@%! (Film) d. Nathan Price (2023)

THE JUSTICE OF BUNNY KING (Film) d. Gaysorn Thavat (2021)

BLACK HANDS (Series) d. David Stubbs (2020)

COME TO DADDY (Film) d. Ant Timpson (2019)

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