Composer Filmmaker Accelerator

Aurélie has worked with filmmakers and artists from around the world, expanding into animation, documentaries, audio dramas, and experimental dance. Her work includes the 2025 Disney Nature feature Guardians of the Galapagos, providing additional music for composer Raphaëlle Thibaut, the 2023 Netflix docuseries Heart of Invictus, where she contributed additional music alongside Emmy-nominated composer Patrick Jonsson, and the hit 2022 podcast What Happened in Skinner, which won Best Indie Podcast at The Ambies. In 2022, the documentary Here to Stay, with original score by Aurélie, won a Student Academy Award and a silver medal at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. She was also honoured with a nomination for Best Original Score at the 2023 Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival for her work on the short film Mars Falling.

Emily Hawkins is a British-German film and media composer, who works across a broad range of mediums, combining orchestral and electronic elements. From films and library music to dance projects, podcasts and children’s TV, her work ranges from playful and quirky to deeply moving and evocative, never failing to enhance storytelling and elicit strong emotions.

She is currently working with Epix Soundworks on the animated kids’ series Stomp! Stomp! Rhinos! Emily also teaches composition with ThinkSpace Education.

EmmoLei Sankofa is an American composer, producer, and creative entrepreneur. In 2024, she earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Original Score for Film/TV for Hulu’s The Other Black Girl. Her credits include the Hulu feature Three Ways, Disney+’s Project CC, The Threads of Legacy: House of Aama PBS documentary, and Lizzo’s Emmy-winning Watch Out for the Big Grrrls, alongside a growing slate of narrative and documentary projects. EmmoLei shapes the emotional architecture of story through cultural intuition, strategic insight, and a spirit of collaboration — partnering with visionary filmmakers to craft music that feels alive, personal, and enduring.

Haibei Wang is a versatile Chinese composer whose work spans film, musical theater, video games, and the concert stage. Blending orchestral, electronic, jazz, and Eastern folk influences, her recent credits include additional music for Panda Plan (starring Jackie Chan) and Honey Money Phony (starring Jin Chen and Sun Yang). Her first feature as lead composer, Liar Liar, Love is on Fire, premiered in China in 2025, while two of her short films debuted at SXSW the same year. A 2024 ASCAP NY Film Scoring Workshop recipient and 2025 AWFC mentee studying with Jay Wadley, she has also served as a panelist for the Manhattan Arts Grants, the Queens Arts Fund, and as a judge for the Collision Awards. Currently, she is composing for the Chinese production of the musical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, premiering November 2025, alongside several upcoming short film projects.

Josh Santos is quickly emerging as one of Vancouver’s most exciting new voices in film music. He has scored over 40 films in under two years and is most known for his work on Hoorah 99, starring NYC rap icon Ja Rule. His work has screened at the American Black Film Fest, TINFF, VAFF, Vancouver SketchFest, Sundar Prize Film Fest, and Whistler Film Fest. Santos draws from a unique breadth of musical influences combining an ARCT diploma in classical piano from the RCM, jazz study under Roland Rácz, SCGC mentorship under composer Lodewijk Vos, and electronic music production alongside Grammy-winning producer Ian Prince. He has collaborated with over 30 artists and producers worldwide, and his work on Your Energy landed a #1 placement on Apple Music’s ‘FutureFunk’ editorial. His current slate includes three features, spotlighting local Vancouver talent in Karak and Encore, alongside the Telefilm-funded New Diamond Restaurant.

Justin Delorme is a Red River Métis screen composer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Recognized by Variety as one of 10 Canadians to Watch, Justin has established a diverse and extensive credits list that includes 13 feature films, 250 episodes of television, and a wide range of short films and documentaries. His musical identity is defined by its emotional depth and versatility, combining acoustic and electronic palettes, elevated by his multi-instrumentalism and over a decade of experience in music production.

Recent projects include The Nest (HotDocs 2025), and three TIFF Official Selections: Blood Lines (2025), a Queer Métis feature drama, The Knowing (2024), a 4-part documentary series, and Aberdeen (2024) a feature drama.

In addition, Justin has received significant recognition for his compositions, earning a Canadian Screen Award nomination in 2019 for his work on the true crime series Taken, as well as five Canadian Screen Music Award nominations since 2023.

Kevin Whyms is an Irish composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, creating bespoke music for use in TV, Film. Games & Advertising.

In the 20+ years he has been composing music, Kevin continues to develop the art of fusing the organic with the power of the synthetic. By combining guitar, clarinet, orchestral and choral arrangements with digital/analogue synthesis and modern sampling techniques, he sculpts a unique soundscape and sonic palette with which to trigger emotion and imagination. His music has appeared on Disney Interactive, Netflix, PBS, BBC, Virgin Media, RTE. He also composed and produced a closing film credit sequence featuring the late Sinead O’Connor. Kevin likes to work closely and collaboratively with visual creatives and story tellers to provide exclusive quality music that stirs the imagination and ultimately enhances the project. Kevin is a founding member of The Screen Composers Guild of Ireland where he currently sits on the board.

Marcin Mazurek is a Polish composer for film, television and games based in London, UK. He composed music for projects showcased at numerous international festivals and recognised at major industry awards, including the BAFTAs (winning Best Short Film 2025 with Rock, Paper, Scissors), Festival de Cannes (3rd Prize at La Cinef with Bunnyhood), One World Media Awards (1st Prize with Knife’s Edge), IDA Documentary Awards, Sundance, Tribeca, Grierson Awards, and more. His score for Rock, Paper, Scissors was nominated at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards, and his work on Bunnyhood was nominated for the Peer Raben Music Award at Soundtrack Cologne. Marcin’s works frequently feature innovative, live-recorded textures, processed in creative ways to craft unique, story-driven soundscapes. Full of experimentation, his compositions push boundaries to create immersive auditory experiences that enhance the emotional core of each project.

Micaela Carballo is an Argentine composer and conductor based in Los Angeles. Her latest films are the animated feature film Norbert (Disney-Spain), the Argentine film Hermanados, the film La Inmensidad, recorded in London and mixed in Abbey Road Studios, the documentary film Jaguar Spirit premiered by the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica. Her music won awards for best original soundtrack at international film festivals and were premiered and recorded with international orchestras. She composed the music for the MARVEL’s I am Groot live in Concert for the Tito Puente 100 show premiered with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Puerto Rico.

She also produced the albums The Hollywood Collection I and II, recorded at at Warner Bros Studios. She currently works as a teacher at CSUN (California State University Northridge). Micaela completed two masters degree in Film Scoring, at ESMUC, Spain and at the Royal College of Music in London.

Riwal is a composer and pianist from France. He has studied music privately and later attended the Bill Evans Piano Academy in Paris to concentrate on jazz piano/composition. He attended Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California and studied classical composition at an applied music program. Later he studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts on a scholarship where he focused his studies on Film-Composition at the world renowned undergraduate Film-Scoring program and graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree. His recent credits include: several singles released on music streaming platforms as a producer/composer, writing the score of independent shorts and feature film screened in the US and U.K and composing for production music companies. His music has been featured on Hulu, Disney+ and Prime Video. He is a member of BAFTA Connect North America.

Yemi Kanmi is a Nigerian American composer hailing from the greater Philadelphia area. Known for possessing musical experience that spans a wide range of disciplines, genres, and idioms, Yemi has served on the music team for Disney TV Animation’s The Owl House, Kiff, and StuGo, and has most recently contributed score to R. Cadell Cook’s Perfectly Us (2025), along with scoring for several web series in development for independent animation studio Shockwave Animation. Yemi holds a Bachelor’s Degree of Music from the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University’s Music for New Media program, and is an alum of the Vittadini Conservatory of Pavia’s Screen Music Program. During and following these studies, Yemi has scored over a dozen projects that have premiered at the Cleveland International Film Festival, Animaze Montreal International Animation Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, and beyond.

Yuri Kwag is a Seoul-born, LA-based composer who creates music designed not just to be heard, but to be experienced. With her music, she aims to support the emotional thread of a story with care and empathy, working to uncover the quiet force of implicit truths. She hopes her work creates space for reflection, connection, and feeling. Yuri’s palette often features intimate piano and strings, ambient electronic layers, and subtle acoustic colors, balancing timeless sounds with modern technology and sensibility. Drawing on classical orchestration, experimental synthesis, and hints of traditional Korean music, Yuri creates scores that defy genre and classification, creating new sound worlds to serve narratives. Her work includes the acclaimed feature Fairy and League of Legends Champions Korea. She has also worked closely with composer Rob Simonsen on major studio productions including Elio, Deadpool & Wolverine, and It Ends With Us.