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Film Scores:
My Neighborhood (2012)
Dir. Julia Bacha
The Iran Job (2011)
Dir. Till Schauder
Budrus (2010)
Composer
Just Vision, Directed by Julia Bacha
• Winner, Panorama Audience Award Second Prize, Berlin International Film Festival, 2010
• Winner, Audience Award, San Francisco International Film Festival, 2010
• Winner, Special Jury Mention, Tribeca Film Festival, 2010
The Mosque in Morgantown (2009)
Composer
V1 Productions/PBS; Directed by Brittany Huckabee
• 2010 News & Documentary Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Individual Achievement In A Craft: MUSIC & SOUND
Amreeka (2008)
Composer
First Generation Films; Directed by Cherien Dabis
• Nominated for Best Picture 2009 Gotham Awards
• Winner FIPRESCI Prize (International Critics Award) Cannes 2009
• Official Selection of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival
Kemo Sabe (2006)
Composer
Directed by Rana Kazkaz; produced by Julio Caro
• Official selection at Shorts Corner/Cannes Film Festival
Encounter Point (2006)
Composer
Just Vision; Directed by Ronit Avni & Julia Bacha
• Winner of the Best Musical Score Award at 2006 Bend International Film Festival (Bend, OR)
The Letter (2003)
Additional Music/Composer
Hamzeh Mystique Films; Directed Ziad Hamzeh
Border (2002)
Composer
Directed by Annette Solakoglu
• Best Short Film Award 2002 Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Undressed (2001)
Additional Music/Composer Episodic TV
MTV Productions
Shadow Glories (2000)
Composer (Feature Film)
Hamzeh Mystique Films; Directed by Ziad Hamzeh
The Two Of Us (2000)
Orchestrator (Feature Film)
Paramount Pictures
Me, Myself & Irene (1999)
Orchestrator (Feature Film)
“Where He Can Hide”
Fox Pictures; Song by Tom Wolf
Beggars & Choosers (1999)
Orchestrator (Episodic TV)
Showtime-Granada Entertainment
Cold Feet (1999)
Orchestrator (Episodic TV)
NBC Productions
My Little Assassin (1999)
Orchestrator (Feature Film)
Lifetime Network
Hopes On The Horizon (1999)
Composer (Documentary)
Blackside Productions
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998)
Additional Music/Orchestrator (Feature Film)
Muse Productions
Selected Discography:
2011 Budrus Original Soundtrack
Composer
Just Vision Inc.
2010 The Boston Children’s Chorus This is the sound of Harmony
Featured composition “Hot Tea, Mint & Olives”
2009 Damascus Festival Chamber Players Syrian Contemporary Music
Featured composition “Buhur”
2008 Encounter Point Original Soundtrack
Composer
Just Vision Inc.
2008 Emel komm in mein leben
Composer, producer, arranger & performer
TBA Music, Zurich, Switzerland
2007 Beyonce’ B’day [Deluxe Edition”
Arranger
Sony Music
2006 The Psalms of Ali Ufki
Performer (Oud)
Dunya Music
2005 The Boston Camerata “A Mediterranean Christmas”
Performer (Oud & Guitar)
Warner Brothers Classics Label
2005 Sharq Arabic Music Ensemble “Revival”
Producer/Arranger and Performer (Oud)
2004 El-Zafeer Ensemble “Almitra’s Question”
Fuller Street Music
Composer, Producer, Performer (Guitar)
2003 Chicago Classical Oriental Ensemble “The Songs of Sayyed Darweesh:
The Soul of a People”
Xuaen Music
Producer, Arranger, Performer (Oud)