François "Franc" Tétaz is an Australian film composer and music producer, who won the Australasian Performing Right Association

Australasian Performing Right Association

The Australasian Performing Right Association is a copyright collective representing New Zealand and Australian composers, lyricists and music publishers. The association's head offices located in Sydney Australia, and it has branch offices in Auckland, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth...

 (APRA) / Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) 2006 'Feature Film Score of the Year' Award

APRA Awards

The APRA Music Awards are several award ceremonies run in Australia and New Zealand by Australasian Performing Right Association to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually....

 for Wolf Creek

Wolf Creek (film)

Wolf Creek is a 2005 independent Australian horror film written, co-produced and directed by Greg McLean. The story revolves around three backpackers who find themselves held captive by a serial killer in the Australian outback...

(2005).

Biography

In 1992, François Tétaz with Charles Tétaz and Darrin Verhagen formed Shinjuku Thief as a Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

-based industrial and experimental music group. They released four albums by March 1994. François Tétaz and Verhagen formed the record label, Dorobo Records, to release their latter albums including Tétaz' solo album, The Motionless World of Time Between or the Drunken Taxicab of Absolute Reality in 1997. The label ceased operations in mid-2004.

Discography

Film scores

• Hard Word (2002) (co-credit with David Thrussell)
• I Love U (2002)
• Under the Radar (2004) (co-credit with David Thrussell)
• Thunderstruck
  Thunderstruck (film)
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  (2004) (co-credit with David Thrussell)
• Wolf Creek
  Wolf Creek (film)
  Wolf Creek is a 2005 independent Australian horror film written, co-produced and directed by Greg McLean. The story revolves around three backpackers who find themselves held captive by a serial killer in the Australian outback...
  
  (2005)
• Rogue
  Rogue (film)
  War is a 2007 American action thriller film, directed by Phillip G. Atwell who makes his film debut, with fight choreography by Corey Yuen. The film was released in North America on August 24, 2007 and stars action film actors Jet Li and Jason Statham, making their second collaboration after the...
  
  (2007)
• The Square
  The Square (film)
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  (2008)
• Miracle Fish
  Miracle Fish
  Miracle Fish is a 2009 Australian short film. It was written, directed, and edited by Luke Doolan, and produced by Drew Bailey. The film stars Karl Beattie, Brendan Donoghue and Tara Morice. It was nominated for Best Live Action Short at the 82nd Academy Awards.-Plot:The film tells the story of 8...
  
  (2009)
• Hesher
  Hesher (film)
  Hesher is a 2010 American dark comedy/drama film written and directed by Spencer Susser and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rainn Wilson, and Natalie Portman. First screened at the Sundance Film Festival January 22, 2010, the film was released in the United States on May 13, 2011...
  
  (2010)

Known recordings:

• The Motionless World of Time Between... (Dorobo Records, 1997)
• Bloody Tourist (November 1992, Extreme Records)
• The Scribbler (May 1993, Dorobo Records)
• The Witch Hammer (October 1993, self-release)
• The Witch Hunter (March 1994, Dorobo Records)