Igor Stravinsky lived in the heart of Hollywood from 1939 until shortly before his death in 1971  longer than in any other single place. He came expecting to find lucrative work composing for the movies. Although initially attracted to the cultural imprimatur of Stravinsky’s reputation, the Hollywood Studios soon discovered that what they couldn’t control, they couldn’t use. And as quickly as they sucked him in, they spat him out.

STRAVINSKY IN HOLLYWOOD is a docu-mentary film that explores the short-lived film career of this legendary composer, it is the story of his trials and tribublations with the Hollywood Studios, the story of an “old school” European artist knocking heads with the brash New World.

The film will use a combination of existing archival footage (some of it never before seen), contemporary interviews with experts in the field and living movie composers, and scenes from several big studio films of the 40s brought together – for the first time – with the music which Stravinsky wrote for them.