About The Movie "One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world." Malala He Named Me Malala is an intimate portrait of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai, who was targeted by the Taliban and severely wounded by a gunshot when returning home on her school bus in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The then 15-year-old (she turned 18 this July) was singled out, along with her father, for advocating for girls' education, and the attack on her sparked an outcry from supporters around the world. She miraculously survived and is now a leading campaigner for girls' education globally as co-founder of the Malala Fund. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker and Academy Award®-winner Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for Superman) shows us how Malala, her father Zia and her family are committed to fighting for education for all girls worldwide. The film gives us an inside glimpse into this extraordinary young girl's life from her close relationship with her father who inspired her love for education, to her impassioned speeches at the UN, to her everyday life with her parents and brothers.
About The Music The soundtrack features a new song, "Story to Tell" performed and written exclusively for the film by Grammy Award®-winner Alicia Keys and produced by Rick Rubin. Thomas Newman is one of the more respected and recognized composers for modern film. He has scored over fifty feature films in a career which spans nearly three decades. Newman has received a total of twelve Academy Award® nominations on such diverse scores as Road to Perdition, Finding Nemo, Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events, Wall-E, and Steven Soderbergh's The Good German. Most recently, he s received Academy Award® nominations for Saving Mr. Banks and Skyfall. He has won three Grammy Awards®, an Emmy® and has been nominated for three Golden Globes®.
Wow! I had no idea about this one. The movie looks very moving, and a documentary score from Newman seems like the perfect counterpoint to his upcoming action and thriller scores.
This score is basically SAVING MR BANKS FROM THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL. Still, if you like Thomas Newman music, while it may be a bit 'by the numbers', it's bloody great nevertheless!
