RISEN: About the Cast & Crew

He has also designed: Exorcist-The Beginning, The Nativity Story, Borgia (television series, 24 episodes), and other movies and television shows.

In January 2015 he started designing The Little Mermaid, to be directed by Sofia Coppola and currently on hold.

He lives in Rome with his family.

STEVEN MIRKOVICH, ACE (Editor) Risen adds to Steven Mirkovich's more than forty feature film credits as a film editor. His career includes earlier cult classics like John Carpenter's, Big Trouble in Little China, and blockbusters such as, The Other Guys, Con Air, Broken Arrow, The Ghost and the Darkness, and I Know What You Did Last Summer. Before joining Risen, Steven edited Hardcore, touted as the world's first action POV movie. Hardcore, directed by Illya Naishuller and produced by Timur Bekmambetov was selected to be run in one of the coveted Midnight Madness slots at the 2015 TIFF. Reviewers singled out Steven's outstanding editing on 16 Blocks, a Richard Donner film. He is un-credited on many high profile features where his experience is used to doctor films.

Born in Oceanside, California, to a Marine Captain who worked in the film unit, his first job was in the mail-room at Warner Brothers, where he worked his way into the editing department. By his early twenties he was an assistant to some of the top editors of the day, and was credited as film editor on his first feature film by age 29. Steven is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences/Film Editing Branch and the American Cinema Editors.

ROQUE BAÑOS (Music by) Roque Baños was born in Jumilla (Murcia) in 1968. He began his musical education at the "Conservatorio Superior de Música de Murcia" where he finished elementary level, specializing in saxophone, obtaining Honors in both Music Theory and in Saxophone. Later on, in 1986, he moved to Madrid, completing his studies at the Madrid Royal Conservatory of Music with honors and several merit mentions, earning degrees in Saxophone, Piano, Music Theory, Harmony, Counterpoint, Composition and Conducting.

In 1997 he joined the Spanish Army as an officer musician and worked there for 11 years. Mr Baños also developed a career as a concert saxophone player performing in a number of concerts in Spain and abroad, both as a soloist and as part of various chamber ensembles, premiering works by Spanish and foreign composers. His path, however, was always directed towards composition and conducting, finding in these fields his principal occupation. He has premiered and directed his own scores at the National Auditorium in Madrid, the Reina Sofia Auditorium, the Cultural Circle of Fine Arts Hall, the Alicante Festival of Contemporary Music amongst other concert halls and events across Spain.

In 1993, after receiving a grant from the Ministry of Culture, he moved to Boston to study at Berklee College of Music, majoring in Music Composition for Film and Jazz. At Berklee he received the "Robert Share Award" for demonstrating the highest musical- dramatic level in the area of film music composition, and the "Achievement Award" for his outstanding performance abilities. He graduated "Summa Cum Laude" in the fields of Film Scoring and Performance in 1995.

Since 1998 when he scored his first film Secondary Roads directed by Emilio Martinez Lazaro, he has worked with Spain's most renowned directors such as Alex de la Iglesia, Daniel Monzon, Carlos Saura, Emilio Martinez Lazaro, or Santiago Segura to name a few, and other internationally acclaimed directors such as Jonathan Glazor, Brad Anderson, Marcelo Piñeyro or Gerard Junot amongst others.

It should be noted, among his latest works, Evil Dead directed by Fede Alvarez and produced by Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi and Oldboy by Spike Lee.

He was commissioned to compose an overture for the opening of "Casino de Murcia" which has been really well received, and has been named "Distinguished Son" from his Hometown. His film score suites have been widely performed with great success in many concerts and auditoriums all around Spain and abroad. He conducted performances of his film music suites at the "Real Teatro de la Maestranza" in Seville with Seville ́s Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, at the "Cordoba Grand Theater", at the "Theater de la Axerquía of Cordova" and "Cabra Auditorium" with Cordoba's Symphonic Orchestra and the Ziryab Chorus (This collaboration resulted in the publication of a double CD + DVD containing the concert from the "Teatro de la Axequia" of Cordoba). Other concert halls where his film music has been performed include the "Auditorio de Badajoz" and "Roman Theater Auditorium", both in Merida with Extremadura's Symphonic Orchestra, the "Auditorio de Murcia" and "Vico Jumilla's Theatre" with Jumilla's Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Ziryab, the National Auditorium of Madrid with Filarmonia Orchestra and Chorus, as well as in the Ubeda Film Music Festival's symphonic concerts, the "Heineken Greenspace" with the Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus of Valencia, the Katoviche National Theatre (Poland) with the Orchestra and Camerata Silesia Auks, amongst many others.

His latest works are In the Heart of the Sea directed by Ron Howard, which will premiere in December of 2015 and Regression directed by Alejandro Amenábar which also will be released this year.

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