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FEATURES

SERPENT'S BREATH (aka DEATH DESIRE) (80 min.) dir. Michael P. DiPaolo [Watch the trailer!]
THE TEAM (90 min., documentary) dir. James Marsh and Basia Winograd, produced by the BBC [Watch the trailer on YouTube!]
MOTHER (80 min.) dir. Michael P. DiPaolo [Watch the trailer!]
DADDY (85 min.) dir. Michael P. DiPaolo [Watch the trailer!]

DOCUMENTARIES

THE TEAM (90 min.) dir. James Marsh and Basia Winograd, produced by the BBC [Watch the trailer on YouTube!]
SILK ROAD 2005 (10-part TV series), produced by NHK in Japan
soundtrack featuring music and arrangements by Zhao JiPing, Kayhan Kalhor, Sandeep Das, Ljova, Shane Shanahan and others, performed by Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. (Soundtrack CD on Sony Classical)
THREE SOLDIERS (80 min.) dir. Shailly Agnihotri, produced by the IFP. (main title and underscore)
FINGERPRINTS (16 min.) - Documentary for HIAS - dir. Andrei Zagdansky

SHORTS

CUPCAKE (9m) dir. Sean McPhillips (coming to 2008 Tribeca Film Festival - see details)
NEW PEOPLE IN SIX DAYS (10m) dir. Gregory Stuart Edwards [Watch on Google Video!]
SPLEEN (11m) dir. Gregory Stuart Edwards [Watch on MySpace!]
DEAR LEMON LIMA (10m) dir. Suzi Yoonessi
UN PEU MOINS (A Little Less) (6 minutes) dir. Dónal Ó'Céilleachair and Konstantin Bojanov
DINNER AT MARVIN'S (6m., animation) dir. Jane Nechayevsky [Watch online!]
GARDENING TIPS FOR HOUSEWIVES (14 min.) dir. Jessica Weigmann
(Best Short Film, 2004 Gen Art Film Festival)
THE PLAYGROUND (a.k.a. CONTAGIOUS) (12 min.) dir. Alison Marek
RED WAGON (13 min.) dir. Alison Marek [Watch on Google video
THE DYING COLOR (15 min.) dir. Jackie Stone
ELTON FICTION (10 min.) dir.  Daniel Marracino
LA LIBERTE! (10 min.) dir. Ken Webb
UN LECCION (8m.) dir. Olga Rozanova
LIFE'S LINES (33 min.) - dir. Prudence Zdravkovic
POTATO ON 23RD STREET (5 min.)  dir. Tarun Shetty
AN OPEN POSITION(20 min.)  dir. Michael Manese
THIS MODERN LOVE (6 min.)  dir. Andrew Koenig  [screen online!}

AS ASSISTANT / ORCHESTRATOR

YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH (121 min.) dir. Francis Ford Coppola (Additional orchestrations and music preparation; Additional Music ("Middle Village"); Assistant to Osvaldo Golijov) [Trailer coming soon!]
THE FOUNTAIN (96 min.) dir. Darren Aronofsky (Score Transcriber) [Watch the trailers!]

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Reviews

This self-released debut recording from 27-year-old Russian-born Lev Zhurbin (aka Ljova), one of New York's fastest-rising composers and instrumentalists, is something special... Ljova continually delights
---Anastasia Tsioulcas, Billboard

Rustic dances and evocative soundscapes, all crafted from ... the gorgeously grainy purr of his fiddle.
---Steve Smith, Time Out New York

Eclectic with an ear for texture...Throaty melodies supported by pizzicato rhythms, lush chordal figures and counterpoint.
---Allan Kozinn, New York Times

Though he was born in the string quarry of Russia and refined in the purifying precincts of Juilliard, Zhurbin turned out to be a lover of gritty hybrids. The music he writes and plays is full of Brahmsian tone, Bartók lines, hiccupping Hungarian rhythms, Klezmer soul and the sexy plaintiveness of tango and the blues.
---Justin Davidson, Newsday

Best of June 2006 New Releases
---John Schaefer, host of WNYC's New Sounds and Soundcheck

Like many younger musicians, this leader has absorbed a panoply of music and gleefully undermines rigid notions of genre.
---Sean Patrick Fitzell, ALL ABOUT JAZZ

From the poignant to the jolly... a superb player and composer, a Brilliant Debut. (Top 10 Jewish Records of 2006)
---George Robinson, THE JEWISH WEEK

No barriers...Fluid stylistic grace...
---Ken Smith, GRAMOPHONE Magazine

The off-kilter rhythms he favors ... tug and pull at you in strange and mysterious ways, as do Ljova's melodies, which have the tuneful, emotive quality of good pop.
---Alexander Gelfand, JAZZIZ Magazine

Proves that an integration between seemingly different cultures is possible, inevitable, and fruitful
---Osvaldo Golijov, composer