Spot the Composer

In 2024, Mateus Alves composed the soundtrack for the film The Secret Agent, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, and for Salomé, directed by André Antônio. In 2023, he composed the soundtrack for Retrato de um Certo Oriente, directed by Marcelo Gomes, and in 2019, he wrote the music for the film Bacurau, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival . In 2016, he licensed music for the film Aquarius, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho. In 2013, he became a Master in Composition at the Royal College of Music, London (UK).

Olivier Arson is a French composer whose music is distinguished by a plastic research of timbres and the constant exploration of narrative structures. With great creative freedom, he arranges without restriction for acoustic ensembles of different sizes, the human voice or electronic experimentation to build a unique and singular universe for each project. He has composed nearly twenty original soundtracks and his collaboration with director Rodrigo Sorogoyen on El Reino and As Bestas earned him two Goya Awards for Best Original Music, in 2019 and 2023 respectively.

Arthur Decloedt is a composer based in São Paulo. His wide range and versatile style has given life to rich and eclectic pieces of work. He has created music for movies, television, games, advertising, performing arts and podcasts. He composed the soundtrack for featured films such as Night Stage, Perfect Endings, Raquel 1:1.He has worked for severals series from Netflix: The Girl from Ipanema, Sintonia, Kissing Game, Omniscient, and he also composed for the Netflix series Pedaço de Mim, global success which reached the world’s top 5 non-English language series in 2024.

Acclaimed with three Emmy nominations and a win for The Reason I Jump, Nainita Desai is also a BIFA, Critics Choice and Cinema Eye Honors nominee. Her recent notable scripted series include the BBC action thriller Crossfire, ITV drama The Tower, SKY drama Funny Woman, and feature film Something In The Water for Studiocanal. Amongst her work on various BAFTA and Academy Award and Emmy acclaimed feature docs such as 14 Peaks Nothing Is Impossible, For Sama, and The Deepest Breath, Nainita’s current projects include Nautilus, the 10 part series for Amazon/Disney.

Singer-songwriter Audrey Ismaël has the panache of a self-taught musician, an innate sense of rhythm and a visceral connection to music and polyrhythms, which she owes to her roots in Reunion Island. She made her film scoring debut with Vanessa Filho’s Angel Face. She scored TV shows like Grown Ups, Germinal or Vortex and won twice the Best Music Award at the FFTV. In 2023 and 2024, she scored The Consent, The Path of Excellence, Wild Diamond and The Kingdom, playing with the possibilities offered by cello. Also in 2024, The Arcs Festival awarded her the “Révélation de la compositrice de musique de film”.

Delphine Malausséna is currently composing the score for the HBO Max series Merteuil, directed by Jessica Palud. In 2024, she composed for Le Roi Soleil by Vincent Cardona. Nominated for Best Original Score at the César Awards for Chien de la casse by Jean-Baptiste Durand, she also scored Cassandre by Hélène Merlin, Oxana by Charlène Favier, and Hiver à Sokcho by Koya Kamura. In 2023, she received the Revelation of the Year award at the Arcs Film Festival and co-composed Laroy (Grand Prix, Deauville). She won the Best Score award at La Baule and the Michel Legrand Revelation Prize for En plein feu by Quentin Reynaud, as well as the U2C Young Talent Award for 5e Set by Quentin Reynaud.

Born in Macau, Nga Weng Chio is a game and film composer residing in Los Angeles. She is the composer the highly anticipated RTS game Stormgate, developed by veterans from StarCraft II & Warcraft III. Her music for Stormgate – Celestial Armada received tremendous positive feedback from the community, entering the World Soundtrack Awards longlist. Recently, she received the Harold Arlen Award from the ASCAP Foundation, honoring aspiring film & TV composers. Her work also includes scoring the feature film The Deserving, released on Apple TV, and the TV series The Divination Gossip Club on Viu TV.

Ré Olunuga is a Nigerian composer of multi-genre orchestral and experimental music. With a unique approach to instrumentation that imbues his music with a stirring quality and an unmistakable sense of engagement and tactility, Ré’s work spans across film & TV soundtracks to ambitious art pieces and even a dalliance with the mainstream through collaborations with commercial recording artists.

Jean-Baptiste de Laubier, aka Para One, is a French composer whose music is deeply tied to cinema. After studying at La Fémis, he focused on music but quickly scored Céline Sciamma’s Water Lilies, becoming her go-to composer, including for Portrait of a Lady on Fire. His 2021 album SPECTRE doubled as the soundtrack for his debut film. He has since worked on various projects, from Tout Va Bien to Niki and, most recently, Crois Pas Qu’On Dort.

Born in Barcelona, Joan has been active in the film music scene since 2012. He is known for his work on the feature films Y todos arderán, Quién eres, Noah, Tú no eres yo, Performing Kaoru’s funeral, Verano Rojo, Desmuntant Leonardo and more than 30 short films, some of them multi award-winning and Oscar’s qualifying short films as Dana or Mystic Tiger. He is a Terror Molins International Horror Film Festival winner for Y todos arderán, Hollywood Music in Media Award Winner for Quién eres and a Jerry Goldsmith Award Winner for Macarrones con tomate, among other international recognitions.