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Peter Salett has been both movie scoring and writing songs for film, both within the studio system and for independent movies.
In 2008 he wrote, arranged and produced songs for the Universal Pictures romantic comedy "Forgetting Sarah Marshall", executive produced by
Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, Superbad), which was released in the spring of that year.
Salett also wrote and performed songs on screen in David Wain's Universal Pictures film "Role Models", starring Paul Rudd, Sean William
Scott and Elizabeth Banks, which was released in the fall of 2008. His song "Broken and Bent" was composed for a montage scene at a key
moment of the film.
In 2009 Peter scored the intense documentary "21 Below" which was broadcast on the UK station More4 in December. He also has a song on the
HBO doc "By the People" soundtrack - released in January of 2010. Peter's song, written specifically for the soundtrack, is alongside songs
by Bruce Springsteen, Sheryl Crow, John Mayer, and many other well known artists.
In 2007 Salett wrote and performed an end title song for David
Wain’s film “The Ten”, starring Winona Ryder,
Famke Janssen, Paul Rudd, Jessica Alba and many more. As
well he co-scored Harris Fishman's feature length documentary
for HBO "Cat Dancers", which won a Special Jury Prize
after its premiere at SXSW in March of 2007, and will be shown
on HBO in 2008. In 2006 Peter scored David Jacobson's "Down in the Valley", starring Edward Norton and Evan Rachel Wood. Five of Salett's songs, written for the movie, are featured as well, including the opening title. When "Down in the Valley" was released in May 2006, Salett received press from around the country for his unique contribution. "Peter Salett's song score is haunting" - Houston Chronicle. "The movie starts to float away on its longueurs, propped up by a lovely soundtrack of Peter Salett's acoustic ballads " - Boston Globe. ATO Records released the soundtrack. In 2005 he contributed 3 songs to Michael Showalter's IFC film "The Baxter," a collaboration that includes Salett's end title song for Showalter and David Wain's cult classic, "Wet Hot American Summer", which starred Janeane Garofalo. Salett's 2000 release "Heart Of Mine" was the main theme of "Keeping The Faith," a film directed by and starring Edward Norton, with a remix by T Bone Burnett on a Hollywood Records soundtrack that included Tom Waits and Elliott Smith. Salett also scored Bittersweet Place, starring Seymour Cassel, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2005. Other films that have featured Salett’s music include two songs in Salma Hayek’s Showtime film “Maldonado Miracle”, (with Peter Fonda and Mare Winningham); Dan McCormack’s “Other Voices” (2000, with Campbell Scott) in which Salett’s epic song “Only Mine” was used on the closing credits in a collaboration with Lili Haydn and the Russian National Symphony; and 1997 Sundance Audience Award winner “Hurricane Streets” for which Salett co-wrote (with noted composer Theodore Shapiro) and sang the song “Beautiful Dream” for the end title. "It's easy to understand why the accessible sounds of Peter Salett often serve as cinematic backdrops. On songs of loneliness and love lost, Salett proves that less is indeed more, letting his rich vocals soar over a sole piano accompaniment or spare acoustics. His every yearning and pang feels like your own." - Entertainment Weekly
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