Manners McDade’s Harry Escott Releases ‘Retablo’ Soundtrack

Directed by Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio, the film follows 14 year old Segundo in rural Peru, whose father (Noé) is training him in the family tradition of designing and building religious retablos. But when Segundo discovers a secret his whole world shatters and he has to deal with everything happening to him, in silence.

The film has recently been nominated for a 2020 BAFTA Award and has also won feature film prizes at film festivals including Berlin International Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, Frameline San Francisco Film Festival and Toronto Inside Out Film Festival.

Harry Escott first came to prominence in 2005 with his score to David Slade’s influential psychological horror film, ‘Hard Candy’. His recent includes Paddy Considine’s boxing drama ‘Journeyman’, Fox UK’s drama ‘Deep State’ and 2017 British drama film ‘Dark River’, which was penned and directed by Clio Barnard, starring Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley and Sean Bean. Harry also scored successful BBC One 6-part drama ‘River’, created and written by Abi Morgan, starring Stellan Skarsgård, which was awarded the 2016 Music and Sound Award for best TV original score. Harry also scored Michael Winterbottom’s most recent film ‘Greed’, (starring Steve Coogan, Isla Fisher, David Mitchell and Asa Butterfield), due to be released on 21st February.