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CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: WORLDS AWAY 3D (2012)PRODUCTION NOTESIn film, Jutras composed the soundtrack for Cirque du Soleil's Journey of Man, an IMAX featurefilm and co-production with Sony Pictures Classics, and Alegria, The Film, Cirque du Soleil's firstfeature film produced by Franco Dragone. The score garnered Jutras Quebec's La Soiree des Jutra(Jutra Award) for Best Score, a Canadian film award for talent and achievement. He also shared anomination for the Genie Award for Best Original Song with Cirque du Soleil composer ReneDupere. Jutras also composed the soundtracks for Robert Lepage' The Far Side of the Moon (2003)and Lyne Charlebois' Borderline (2007) and is credited with music on Rachel Talalay's The Wind inthe Willows (2006), a television feature co-produced by the BBC and CBC.Recently, Jutras composed and produced the music for the show A Museby Les 7 doigts, whichopened in Mexico City. He also composed the score for The House of Dancing Water, whichopened in Macau in 2010 at the City of Dreams.In 2008, he composed three pieces to be included in the celebrations for Pope Benedict XVI's visitto Yankee Stadium in New York. That year, he was asked to write the music for Six Flags' Glow inthe Park Parades, presented in the United States, New England, and Mexico.In 2005, Jutras composed the music for Le Reve, a show presented at the theater of the Wynn Hotelin Las Vegas. Five years earlier he scored the music for Francesco il Musical, an Italian productionbased on the life and times of Saint Francis of Assisi. This work was presented in Assisi to mark thearrival of the new millennium.In 1998, Benoit wrote the music for The Hunger TV series which starred David Bowie and wasnominated for a primetime Emmy.In 1995, he wrote a few pieces and acted as musical director for the special Cirque du Soleil performancefor the G7 Summit in Halifax. He also worked with Rene Dupere on composing the musicfor Cirque du Soleil shows Mystere and Fascination.Jutras became co-composer and musical director for We Reinvent the Circus' European tour in1990. He joined the team of We Reinvent the Circus in 1987, where he spent three years working asmusical director.He holds a master's degree in composition from the Conservatoire de Musique de Montreal and hasreceived two major awards from this institution.Stephen Barton (composer for additional music, arranger), a versatile composer who has scoredmusic for more than three dozen feature films, videogames and television projects, marks his fourthcollaboration with director/writer/producer Andrew Adamson on Cirque du Soleil Worlds Away.They previously teamed on such award-winning and commercial hits as Shrek 2, The Chronicles ofNarnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. OnShrek 2, he co-wrote a song with Cirque du Soleil Worlds Away producer Aron Warner on the platinumselling soundtrack.Barton left his native London and moved to Los Angeles in 2002. Since then he has composed andarranged music for 20 feature films and television productions. His credits include the BAFTAnominatedBritish thriller Exam, Sir Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven, Tony Scott's Deja Vu andMan on Fire, The Six Wives of Henry Lefay, Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone, Bridget Jones: TheEdge of Reason, The Number 23, Flushed Away and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. He was the© 2012 Paramount Pictures17