PAH-FEST Judges
andy hill
Andy Hill has devoted more than two decades to the craft of scoring music for the screen, working closely with film music legends like Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, Hans Zimmer and Danny Elfman. Although he has studied composition throughout his career, his contribution to the craft is not as a composer but as a producer, mentor, and teacher. Hill served for nine years as a VP of Music for Walt Disney Studios, overseeing the production of five Oscar-winning scores, including “The Lion King.” Following this, he worked as an independent music supervisor and executive music producer on films such as “Ed Wood,” “Hoodlum,” and “Message In A Bottle,” earning a Grammy Award in 2000 as producer of the music for “The Adventures Of Elmo In Grouchland.” In 2004, he developed and taught the first of the Columbia College Chicago Semester In L.A. Film Scoring Workshops, a role which led directly to his present engagement as director of the college's new MFA program in Music Composition for the Screen. He is the author of two published novels, The Last Days of Madame Rey (Carroll & Graf 2007) and Enoch’s Portal (Champion Press 2002), and two screenplays, "Tesla," and "Little Red Book," and is represented by the Reece Halsey Agency. Hill is a graduate of the film program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.