Since its launch in the 2020-2021 academic year, our Back Room Project has paired over 75 film students in the undergraduate and masters programs at the University of Georgia with composition students at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in a unique, long-distance (very long!) working partnership. Besides the specific, intended outcome of the creation of original scores for original films, the Back Room has enabled these film students to learn to work with composers, and these composers to learn to work with filmmakers, as each group will need to do throughout their careers. It has, happily, also led to personal and professional connections among this talented group of emerging creators.​ This summer, due to the increased number of film students interested in participating in the Back Room, we added student composers from the Music Department at Sapir Academic College to the project