| In 2024, Marcel Barsotti made his debut as a film director with the short film “TRANSFORMATION”, a dystopian elaborate science fiction production that deals with the question of the extent to which life can find peace in this universe or whether living beings are fundamentally capable of doing so. The movie will start at autumn worldwide to international festivals. Barsotti began working as a music video director on various projects in 2020 and received the David Award (2023) for his electronic music video “The New Human” and the Onkyo Award (2023) for “Fields”.
Barsotti‘s numerous more than 80 wins & nominations include the German Record Critics Award, Rome & Madrid International Movie Award, New York Cinematography Award, Goldspire International Film Award, Atlantis Moondance Award, nominations at the Cannes World Film Festival, International Sound & Film Music Festival, Next Generation Indie Film Awards, Global Film Festival Los Angeles, German Television Award, German Film Academy Award, German Film Critics Award and the German Music Authors Award. Since 1995 Barsotti has composed the scores for more than 100 national and international movies & commercials. During these years he worked with famous directors and producers like Sönke Wortmann, Günter Rohrbach, Caroline Link, Luc Besson-Production, Carl Schenkel, Josée Dayan, Eberhard Junkersdorf and Hark Bohm. From 1982 – 1988 he studied composition, piano, conducting and clarinet at the Conservatory of Munich in Germany. He is also contributing to the worldwide ethnic Sample Library Ethno World. In 2017 he founded the production music company Tunesformovies. From 2019 – 2022 Barsotti released his first electronic solo albums Transpicuous, Earth & YOX, as well as the orchestral cycle Americana. In 2023 Barsotti started with his first orchestral concert tour.
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