Screenworks in conjunction with APRA AMCOS has today announced the two successful participants for the 2025 Screen Composing Mentorship.
Emerging regional screen composers Marcus Galic from Cardinia Shire, Victoria and Corey Day from Albury, NSW will each receive career enhancing support and guidance from highly accomplished and respected screen composers to help them build confidence and skills for composing music for screen content.
Marcus will be mentored by Angela Little while Corey will be mentored by Brett Aplin.
The mentorships will include 3 x 1-hour mentoring sessions. The mentor will provide the participant an optional assignment to complete, and will provide feedback and insights on presenting pieces of music to clients. There will also be 1 x in-person meeting to meet the mentor, subject to availability and workflow.
Each participant will be granted $1750 to cover the costs of travel, accommodation and mentoring fees.
This program aims to assist the mentees in skills development, increase their experience and help them build confidence and capacity to compose music for screen content.
Screenworks CEO, Lisa O’Meara said of the announcement of the successful participants:
“Congratulations to Marcus and Corey. We are delighted to be continuing this partnership with APRA AMCOS in order to offer regionally-based composers the opportunity to refine their craft and advance their careers. The participants are selected by the mentors so we are confident they will work well together. We look forward to seeing the benefits this program brings to them.”
2025 SCREEN COMPOSING MENTORSHIP PARTICIPANTS
Marcus Galic – VIC
As a multi-talented creative, screen composer Marcus Galic utilises his skills in acting, filmmaking and game design to bring unique perspectives when creating emotionally impactful scores. Working on student and indie film and game projects, Marcus is mostly self taught in music composition, driven by an eagerness to learn new skills and techniques. With a keen passion to break into film, tv and games, Marcus is excited for this mentorship opportunity to learn the ins and outs of the industry and what it takes to become a professional screen composer.
Corey Day – NSW
Corey Day is an aspiring screen composer and music producer from Albury-Wodonga. At just 17 years old he can already boast achievements such as scoring Dancehouse’s short dance film ‘Concrete Sleep’, composing for local live performances accompanying artworks, being awarded the 2025 Margaret Schofield Memorial Scholarship for Composition, and now Screenworks’ 2025 Screen Composing Mentorship! At a very young age, he gained a love of soundtrack music which is what eventually drove him to teach himself music notation software. At 7 years old, Corey started drum/percussion lessons at the Murray Conservatorium (allowing him to play in multiple concert bands throughout his life), however his passion for composing later compelled him to focus his lessons on learning DAWs and music theory. This lead to him composing and producing music in many different styles and mediums, whether for collaborations with other musicians, school assignments, or his own short films. Continuing on his journey, Corey believes the screen composing mentorship is a rare and exciting opportunity that will take him yet another step closer to achieving his dream.
2025 SCREEN COMPOSING MENTORSHIP MENTORS
Angela Little
ANGELA LITTLE is a multi-award-winning screen composer from Sydney, Australia. Her first break in screen scoring was on Baz Luhrmann’s “Australia”, for which she composed additional music. She was also the singer and co-writer of the film’s end credit song, “By The Boab Tree”, which earned her an AFI Award nomination and APRA-AGSC Screen Music Award nominations for Best Soundtrack Album and Best Original Song. In 2015, she featured as a vocal soloist on Marco Beltrami’s score for “Gods of Egypt”, and composed the score for the AACTA-nominated documentary “Zach’s Ceremony”.
Angela relocated to Los Angeles in 2018 to complete a Master of Music in Screen Scoring at the University of Southern California. There, she was mentored by world-renowned composer Thomas Newman, and was awarded both the Alan Silvestri scholarship and the Joe and Alice Harnell Award. While in Los Angeles after graduating, Little composed for LA-based Hexany Audio, working on AAA game titles such as Tencent’s “Honor of Kings”, which earned her a Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) Award and two Hollywood Music in Media Award nominations. In 2021, Angela signed to the world’s largest independent music publisher, Peermusic, and in 2022 she took out the Hollywood Music In Media Award for Best Song/Score for a Commercial Advertisement for her trailer for Ausfilm, “The Australian Job”.
Some of Angela’s recent credits as composer include the AACTA-nominated documentary, “Everybody’s Oma”; feature films “Never Too Late”; “Take My Hand”; “Streamline”; “Mistletoe Ranch”; “Swimming for Gold”; “Back of the Net”; Hulu Limited Series “Faraway Downs” (additional music); “For The Girl In The Coffee Shop” (for which she won an APRA-AGSC Screen Music Award); TV series “Dive Club” (for which she was nominated for an APRA-AGSC Screen Music Award); and feature film “A Stitch in Time”, which won the 2022 AACTA Award for Best Independent Film, and for which Angela was nominated for both an AACTA Award for Best Original Score, and an APRA-AGSC Screen Music Award for Feature Film Score of the Year.
Brett Aplin
BRETT APLIN is an ARIA nominated, and AACTA/AFI and APRA Screen Music Award winning screen composer who won the 2000 Annual Pete Carpenter Fellowship (BMI Foundation, NYC), travelling to Los Angeles to work with Emmy and Grammy award-winning television composer Mike Post where he composed music for Law and Order: SVU and generally couldn’t believe his luck.
Since then, he has co-composed 34 hours of internationally broadcast television drama, scored 48 documentary films or features, and composed or co-composed almost 50 hours of children’s television that have screened in over 170 countries worldwide.
He has worked with some of the very best screen practitioners writing across a variety of genres, his music having been broadcast locally on ABC1, SBS, Network Ten, Channel 7, STAN and internationally on Netflix, Disney+, STARZ, Acorn TV, BBC, Nickelodeon, National Geographic, Animal Planet, The History Channel, ZDF, and Discovery among others.
For more information, please contact Screenworks’ Communications Coordinator, Emily Hutchinson at [email protected]
