Into The Wild Screening with ASCAP Composer Michael Brook

(l-r): Jay Cassidy, ASCAP's Pamela Allen, composer Michael Brook, ASCAP's Nancy Knutsen, the SCL's Laura Dunn, and ASCAP's Jeff Jernigan

On Wednesday, Oct 3rd, ASCAP and the SCL presented a screening of the film Into The Wild followed by a Q&A with composer Michael Brook and film editor Jay Cassidy. The film, directed by Sean Penn, tells the story of Christopher McCandless (aka Alexander Supertramp), who leaves behind his possessions and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness, meeting people along the way that help shape his life. Composer Michael Brook came onto the project after his work on the Academy Award winning Al Gore documentary An Inconvenient Truth, for which he also produced the soundtrack.