Paul Hepker ( b. Harare , Zimbabwe ; 17 December 1967 ) - South African composer , musical director , pianist , best known for composing the score ( with Mark Kilian ) for the film Tsotsi , which won the Academy Award for Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards in 2005 . Hepker and Kilian also wrote the score for Rendition , the Gavin Hood film starring Jake Gyllenhaal , Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep amongst others . Hepker and Kilian also co-composed the score for " The Bird Ca n't Fly " by Dutch director Threes Anna . Hepker wrote the music for the AIDs documentary " Into the Light " which featured the voice of Kenyan artist Ayub Ogada
78th Academy Awards
78th Academy Awards
Paul Hepker