FIMUCITÉ’S third edition, Tenerife International Film Music Festival, held from July 20th until the 26th 2009, will pay tribute to Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), one of the most prolific film music composers. Filmoteca Canaria joins this initiative along the month of June offering a season of films that gather some of Goldsmith most famous soundtracks like: Papillon, Chinatown, Freud: The Secret Passion, The Other, The ballad of Cable Hogue y Capricorn One.

Goldsmith studied composition with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and attended the music master classes given by well-known Miklós Rozsa at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His first works caught the attention of composer Alfred Newman, who gave him his first important commission for a film in 1962: the western Lonely are the brave. Since then he started writing music for varied film genres. One of the directors with whom Goldsmith worked the most was Franklin J. Schaffner, in films like The planet of the Apes,Patton, Papillon and the Boys from Brazil. Goldsmith was nominated for the Hollywood Oscar 17 times, getting his award in 1976 forThe Omen