You're choosing a tough row to hoe!! My ex-husband is a composer, and also does music for film, theatre, TV etc. It's a very pressure-filled life, you're working to deadlines, you're working to a brief, 18-hour days, 7 days a week if you're successful. You'd better have the stamina of a cart-horse!!! This is a bit of a gloomy post, don't mean it to be. I just hope that you have a definite strategy. There are probably publishing companies that specialise in film music (though all publishing companies should go after work for you, once you're signed to them). But publishing companies are buggers - if you're not successful immediately they don't bother their arses looking for work for you, and you have to end up paying them a percentage for work you got yourself. My ex-husband (I speet on his name), far as I know he doesn't have a publishing company, just built up a network of clients over the years, and manages his own publishing. The Performing Rights Society collects all royalties, all that publishing companies do is they collect them for you, but you can do that yourself. So be careful of signing with a publishing company unless they can guarantee to get you work. They're bullshitters, that's their stock in trade. Oops, I'm in the Bryce forum. But now that I've gone to the trouble of typing all this I'm gonna post it!