Scoring “PROPAGANDA – The Art of Selling Lies; Larry Weinstein returns to Toronto Ravel to talk about the process of scoring his latest documentary which premiered recently at Hot Docs. As can happen with co-productions, Larry was presented with the composing team by his German co-producers. He will talk about the process of shaping a unique film score with composers with whom he had never worked, and whose music he initially did not like…. (the team was Andreas Schafer and Raffael Seyfried)

Larry Weinstein  is a Canadian film director of theatrical and television documentaries, performance films, and dramas. The majority of his films centre on musical subjects and the depiction of the creative process, while his other subjects range from the horrors of war to the pleasures of football.Weinstein’s directorial debut came in 1984’s Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short and won the first-ever Best Documentary Gemini Award in Canada. Best known for classical-music projects such as Ravel’s Brain, Beethoven’s Hair and Mozartballs, Weinstein has made almost 40 films that have garnered dozens of awards from around the world, including three International Emmy Awards (and several other Emmy nominations) and 12 personal Canadian Screen/Gemini Awards, as well as major awards in Canada, the United States, France, The Czech Republic, Mexico, and Australia.