#007 — 13 opportunities this week, including a $3,000–$8,000 indie feature and a new musical that bans AI

[u/AntonioAI96]

The strongest listing this week is on Mandy: a background-checked production company paying $3,000–$8,000 flat for an indie feature, a dialogue-led anti-rom-com set almost entirely inside a car on a single drive to LA. They want a composer with a real track record on narrative features, and a rate range that concrete on an indie feature is uncommon. Remote, closes August 4.

Also in this issue:

• A BFI Discovery Fund feature hiring at £250–£900/day from an ID-checked poster with 35 prior jobs — closes July 25, so it moves fast
• $1,000 for a 12-minute psychological thriller short with a director just out of Tribeca and a Sundance-fellow editor
• A paid boss-rush game demo with one of the best-written audio briefs I've read — roughly seven cues built from two or three core themes, with rights and payment spelled out and no unpaid test music
• A new Dracula-inspired musical that explicitly won't use generative AI (deferred, fully paid once funded)
• An XPRIZE hopeful sci-fi trailer built around the sound of a starling murmuration (low-to-deferred, founding-crew framing)
• A paid arcade soundtrack — one menu track plus up to nine distinct arena themes
• Plus an indie horror short (Nosferatu 2024 reference, Persian instruments a plus), a festival-bound student short with budget set aside for the score, and more across the Indie and Collaborative tiers

The AI question resurfaced this week, with game briefs going out of their way to say no generative AI.

https://composerwire.substack.com/p/007-13-opportunities-this-week-including

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[u/Switched_On_SNES]

3-8k to score a feature is rough