October 2016

Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang Streaming on Netflix

Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang Streaming on Netflix

Sky Ladder is Kevin Macdonald's portrait of acclaimed artist Cai Guo-Qiang, from his youth during China's cultural revolution through his ascension to the highest ranks of the fine art world. Cai's spectacular and mesmerising works are accompanied by Alex's hypnotic electronic score.Sky ladder premiered at the Sundance Film festival earlier this year.


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October 2016

Black Mirror Series 3 streaming on Netflix

Black Mirror Series 3 streaming on Netflix

The acclaimed anthology series Black Mirror returns for a third season. From series creator and writer Charlie Brooker comes six new tales of contemporary unease. Alex reunites with director James Watkins on episode 3, Shut Up and Dance for a suspenseful story of private shame and desperation that will leave you guessing until the end. As Tim Goodman writes for The Hollywood Reporter, "Netflix brings back one of television's best series in the chillingly creative 'Black Mirror,' which finds creator Charlie Brooker as prophetically spot-on as usual."

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September 2016

Disney's Queen Of Katwe Opens in US theatres

Disney's Queen Of Katwe Opens in US theatres

Disney's Queen Of Katwe Opens in US theatres this weekend. Directed by Mira Nair and starring Lupita Nyong'o, David Oyelowo, & Madina Nalwanga the film tells the true story of Phiona Mutesi and how how her life story was changed through the discovery of chess. The New York Times calls the film "irresistable" . Alex's score is now available on Walt Disney Records.

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August 2016

Roots nominated for Outstanding Limited Series in the Primetime Emmy Awards 2016

Roots nominated for Outstanding Limited Series in the Primetime Emmy Awards 2016

History and A&E's ROOTS has been nominated for Outstanding Limited Series in the Primetime Emmy Awards 2016. The mini series opened to widespread critical acclaim and is 97% fresh on the review agregator 'Rotten Tomatoes'. The 8 hour series features Alex's score which runs at close to 5 hours of music. 

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June 2016

Roots Opens in the US to a large audience and widespread acclaim

Roots Opens in the US to a large audience and widespread acclaim
Roots - featuring a stellar cast including Laurence Fishburne , Forest Whitaker, Anika Noni Rose & Jonathan Rhys Meyers, the 8 hours miniseries is set over 4 nights and 4 generations of the same family. Over 50 million people watched in the USA over the course of this week. The show is getting rave reviews and is rated 100% fresh on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Alex's score contains more than 4 hours of music and features singers and players recorded in Gambia as well as African percussion and orchestra. Film Music Magazine says of Alex's score - “Roots has never quite sounded this real, with all of the punishment and spirituality that Heffes has been able to capture in body and soul with his impressive, time and continent spanning work." Read More
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