Indie Film Music Matters with Jason Rivera

2025-05-06

Episode 212: This episode was recorded April 27, 2025 and published May 6, 2025. Feels good to be back with you and publishing episodes again. The 14th Annual International Mobile Film Festival took place April 25-27 in San Diego. During the festival, we scheduled the recording of this episode with a live in-person audience. Jason Rivera began composing music when he was 4 years old. He’s been on the show several times, and was at the festival, where we met, in April 2023. This recording took place in the later afternoon at th...

Episode 212: This episode was recorded April 27, 2025 and published May 6, 2025.

Feels good to be back with you and publishing episodes again. The 14th Annual International Mobile Film Festival took place April 25-27 in San Diego. During the festival, we scheduled the recording of this episode with a live in-person audience.

Jason Rivera began composing music when he was 4 years old. He’s been on the show several times, and was at the festival, where we met, in April 2023.

This recording took place in the later afternoon at the festival. We enjoyed recording with an audience. Thankful to everyone who attended our special session during the festival.

Things we discussed:

Why indie film music matters more than you may realize
How good music and audio can give your indie film an edge
Why unique music is important

EP 149 with Jason Rivera July 2023
https://mobilefilmmaking.podbean.com/e/music-in-film-tells-the-story-with-jason-rivera/

*I mentioned panelists from "Fade In To Film" and missed mentioning Erica "ET" Taylor who is my guest in Episode 211.

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