Composers

ELYSSA SAMSEL

KATE ANDERSON

ANTONIO GAMBALE

PATRIC CAIRD

JEREMY NATHAN TISSER

JACOB SHEA

MODERATED BY KAYA SAVAS

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Central Park  (Samsel & Anderson)

In this animated musical comedy, Owen Tillerman (Leslie Odom Jr.) and his family live an unconventional life in New York’s bustling Central Park, which Owen manages. Now, they’ll have to fend off a wealthy hotel heiress who wants to turn the park into condos. TV-14 | 30min | Apple TV+

Unorthodox  (Gambale)

A Hasidic Jewish woman in Brooklyn flees to Berlin from an arranged marriage and is taken in by a group of musicians – until her past comes calling. TV-MA | 60min | Netflix

The Order  (Caird)

Out to avenge his mother’s death, a college student pledges a secret order and lands in a war between werewolves and practitioners of dark magic. At Belgrave University, the bad blood between werewolves and magicians reaches a breaking point — until a greater evil threatens to destroy them all. TV-MA | 60min | Netflix

We Stand Corrected: Dannemora (Tisser)

This documentary examines the causes and effects of the 2015 escape from Clinton Correctional Facility in New York. Told from those on the inside, it’s an alternate narrative to that which was told by the media. TV-MA | 1 hour, 13 minutes | House of Mirrors Entertainment/Gravitas Ventures

Seven Worlds, One Planet (Shea)

Millions of years ago incredible forces ripped apart the Earth’s crust creating our seven continents – each with its own distinct climate, its own distinct terrain, and its own unique animal life. From the colorful paradise of South America to the scorching heat of Africa, Seven Worlds, One Planet showcases the true character of each continent in turn and reveals just how it has shaped all life there. TV-PG | 60min | BBC

Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson are the Annie Award-nominated songwriters behind Disney Animation’s Olaf’s Frozen Adventure. Most recently, they served as in-house songwriters for Apple TV’s hit series Central Park, an animated musical from the minds of Loren Bouchard and Josh Gad, for which they created songs featuring the voices of Gad, as well as Kristen Bell, Daveed Diggs, and Leslie Odom Jr. They are developing a feature film for Warner Brothers loosely based on Rip Van Winkle starring Cynthia Erivo.

Antonio Gambale is an Italian and Australian composer based in Paris, France. He most recently scored Netflix’s international hit limited series, Unorthodox, which Film Music Magazine praised as a “breakthrough score.” Antonio’s career spans decades, including a long and fruitful collaboration with Parisian composer Nathaniel Méchaly, with whom he worked on the Taken film franchise as programmer, additional music composer and score producer. His other credits include the Tribeca horror-comedy film Stung (co-scored with David Menke) and NBC’s Taxi Brooklyn.

Award-winning Canadian composer Patric Caird most recently scored Season 2 of Netflix’s horror drama series The Order. He’s best known for scoring Cartoon Network’s Ed, Edd n Eddy for which he won several Leo Awards, and he’s also composed for popular TV series including SYFY/Netflix’s Ghost Wars, Showtime’s Emmy-winning series The Outer Limits, and USA’s The Dead Zone. Patric has won numerous awards including a Genie Award, two SOCAN Music Awards, several Leo Awards, he was nominated for Canada’s Gemini Award for Best Musical Score, and a Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Song.

In less than 10 years, Jeremy Nathan Tisser has scored nearly 70 projects in film, TV, games, and new media. In addition to his recent work writing the original music for We Stand Corrected: Dannemora, Jeremy also collaborated on the end credit song with Grammy-winning percussionist MB Gordy, Grammy-nominated guitarist Greg Karas and Grammy-nominated vocalist Tommy Rogers of the metal band Between the Buried and Me. Additionally, Jeremy scored Disney’s animated short Hair Jitsu, and he’s the go-to Virtual Reality composer of today. He most recently scored two Survios’ VR games, Battlewake and Raw Data.

BAFTA and Emmy-nominated composer Jacob Shea is a Principal Lead Composer at Bleeding Fingers Music. He most recently scoredBBC Earth’s Seven Worlds, One Planet, and his other TV credits include co-scoring BBC’s Planet Earth II, for which he received an Emmy and BAFTA nomination, as well as Blue Planet II, and Sky’s German series Pagan Peak. On the film side, Jacob has contributed to the Transformers and the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchises. He has won 2 BMI awards for Mountain Men and 4 additional BMI awards for Alaskan Bush People.

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