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Ivor Novello nominee and Royal Television Society award winning composer, Nainita Desai was the Discovery of the Year winner at the World Soundtrack Awards 2021.
Her company Soundology are trailblazers in the world of film & TV who have scored hundreds of acclaimed films.
A double BIFA, Cinema Eye Honors nominee; BAFTA Breakthrough Brit, and IFMCA Breakthrough Composer of the year 2019, Nainita was described by Empire magazine as one of the top 5 composers to watch for 2022.
Her recent projects include Oscar nominated and BAFTA and Cannes winning feature documentary For Sama, Sundance and BIFA winning feature The Reason I Jump, an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity. Other recent credits include BBC dramas Unprecedented and Maryland, Bafta nominated American Murder [Netflix’s most watched documentary of 2020], ITV crime drama series The Tower (Mammoth Screen; Gemma Whelan), as well as Netflix hit 14 Peaks : Nothing Is Impossible (exec: Jimmy Chinn), Kevin Macdonald’s The Story Of Us and Interactive film / video game Telling Lies, the acclaimed release by Annapurna Interactive.
2022 projects include BBC One action thriller Crossfire (Dancing Ledge; Keeley Hawes), Sky drama Funny Girl (Rebel Park, Potboiler, Gemma Arterton) and major feature documentaries for John Battsek, Misfits, and Rory Kennedy amongst landmark series Earthsounds for Apple TV+ and Predators for Sky/Netflix plus video games for Electronic Arts and Interactive film-game Immortality for release summer 2022.
Nainita moves seamlessly between working with orchestras to song writing. With her musical foundations rooted in world music, she composes using her collection of custom-made instruments, electronics and found sound. This innate musical ability, coupled with a background in sound design and technical innovation, has fuelled her powerful and emotive scores.
Her original approach to composition involves deeply researched collaborations to find those voices that are not usually heard, creating sounds that are truly unique, and ensuring that she is one of the most sought-after composers for both scripted and non-scripted.
Soundology's CV
View our composer's list of TV and film credits here.
| 2023 - Global Refugee Crisis | Directed By Rory Kennedy | Moxie Films | |
| 2023 - Untitled Digital Privacy film | Directed By Kate Stonehill | BFI / Doc Society / Tribeca / CAA | |
| 2022 (forthcoming) - The Blue Hole | Directed by Laura McGann John Battsek | Ventureland / A24 | |
| 2022 (forthcoming) - Body Parts | Dir: Kristy Guevera-Flanagan | Tribeca Film Festival premiere 2022 | |
| 2022 (forthcoming) - Sweepstakes Hero | Directed by Clair Titley | Misfits Entertainment / MRC | |
| 2022 (forthcoming) - Villeneuve & Pironi | Directed By Torquil Jones | Noah Media / Sky Studios | |
| 2022 - The Wall: Climb For Gold | Directed by Nick Hardie | Windfall Films / Amazon | |
| 2022 - Delikado | Directed by Karl Malakunas; Exec: Daniel J. Chalfen | Premiere: Hotdocs 2022 | |
| 2022 - Boycott | Premiered: SXSW 2022 | Dir: Julia Bachen / Just Vision | |
| 2019 - For Sama | Directed by Waad Al-Kateab and Ed Watts | Channel 4 / PBS Oscar Nominee | BAFTA + Cannes winner | |
| 2020 - My Family, The Holocaust and Me - View project | Wall To Wall for BBC One | |
| 2021 - The Reason I Jump | Directed By Jerry Rothwell | Met Films / Picturehouse / BFI / Vulcan | |
| 2021 - 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible | Theatrical feature doc | Noah Media | Dir: Torquil Jones | Exec: Jimmy Chinn, Elisabeth Chai Noah Media / Little Monster Films / Netflix | |
| 2021 - Persona | Directed by Tim Travers Hawkins Dorothy St Pictures / HBO Max / CNN Films | |
| 2021 - Look Away | Directed By Sarah Cunningham | SKY / Top Hat | |
| 2021 – The Story Of Us | Directed by Kevin Macdonald | Doscsville Studio / ITV | |
| 2020 - American Murder: The Family Next Door | Directed By Jenny Popplewell | Netflix [most watched doc of 2020] | |
| 2019 - Darkness Visible | Directed by Neil Biswas BFI / Protaganist | |
| 2018 - Enemy Within | Directed by Gabriel Robertson 27Ten Productions | |
| 2018 - The Life After | Directed by Brian Hill | BBC / Irish Film Board / Century Films | |
| 2016 – Mumbai High – A Musical | Directed By Brian Hill | BBC / Century Films | |
| 2015 - The Confessions of Thomas Quick | Directed by Brian Hill | BFI / Century Films / Picturehouse / Film4 |
| 2022 (forthcoming) - Funny Woman | Dir: Oliver Parker | Rebel Park / Potboiler / SKY / 6x60min | |
| 2022 (forthcoming) - Crossfire | Directed by Tessa Hoffe | Dancing Ledge Productions / BBC One | |
| 2022 (forthcoming) - Maryland | Dir: Brian Hill / Lucy Kirkwood | BBC2 / BBC Films | |
| 2022 (forthcoming) - The Disappearance of Patricia Hall | Directed By Sam Hobkinson Amazon Prime | |
| 2021 - The Tower | Directed by Jim Loach | Mammoth Screen / ITV | |
| 2021 – One Cup, A Thousand Stories | Series Producer Matthew Springford | BBC Studios / MIGU 6x60min | |
| 2022 - Murder In The Alps | Directed By Catey Sexton | C4 / Blast Films / 3x60min | |
| 2021 - Sophie: A Murder In West Cork | Dir: John Dower | Lightbox / Netflix / 3x60min | |
| 2021 - High: Confessions of an Ibiza Drugs Mule | 6x30min | BBC |Blink Films | Drama-Doc | |
| 2021 - Patrick Kielty: 100 Years of Union | 1x60 for BBC One | Produced by Dragonfly | |
| 2020 - Bad Boy Billionaires: India | Directed by Dyan Mohan Gray & Johanna Hamilton | Minnow Films / Netflix / 4x60min | |
| 2020 - Unprecedented: Real Time Theatre from a State of Isolation | Directed By Brian Hill | BBC / Century Films / Headlong | |
| 2020 – Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson | Directed by Simcha Jacobovici | Cornelia Street Productions / 6x60min |
| 2023 (forthcoming) - Earthsound | Directed by Sam Hodgson Apple TV+ / Offspring Films / 12x30min | |
| 2022 (forthcoming) - Predators | Director: Dan Smith | True To Nature / Sky / Netflix / 6x60min | |
| 2020 - Fierce Queens | Series Producer | Tuppence Stone BBC Studios / Quibi | |
| 2019 - Untamed Romania | Directed by Tom Barton-Humphries | Off The Fence / European Nature Trust / Auchan | |
| 2019 - Walking With Elephants | Directed By Alexis Girardet C4 / October Films / 3x60min | |
| 2018 - Extraordinary Rituals | Series Producer Tuppence Stone BBC NHU / 4x60min | |
| 2018 - Earth’s Natural Wonders | Directed By Jobim Sampson | BBC Studios / 3x60min | |
| 2018 - Equator From The Air | Exec Prod Ruth Shurman | Dragonfly / BBC / 3x60min | |
| 2018 - Wild Africa: Rivers of Life | Directed by Gavin Maxwell & Ben Wallis | Lion Mountain Media / 7x60min | |
| 2016/17 - Tribes Predators and Me | Series 1&2 | BBC NHU / Ted Oakes / 6x60min |
| 2022 - (forthcoming) Untitled | Silver Rain Studios / Electronic Arts | |
| 2022 – (forthcoming) Immortality | Half Mermaid Productions | |
| 2019 - Telling Lies | Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid Productions / Annapurna Interactive |
| 2022 Girls On Film Awards | Winner Best Composer | |
| 2022 ASCAP Composer Choice Awards Best Documentary | Nominee (14 Peaks Nothing Is Impossible) | |
| 2022 Empire Magazine | Top 5 Film Composers to Watch | |
| 2021 World Soundtrack Awards | Winner (Discovery of the Year) | |
| 2021 World Soundtrack Awards | Nominee (Film Composer of the Year) | |
| 2021 World Soundtrack Awards | Nominee (Public Choice Award) | |
| 2021 HMMA Awards Documentary Score | Nominee(14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible) | |
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RTS CRAFT+DESIGN AWARDS 2020 | WINNER: Best Music - Original Score: FOR SAMA |
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BIFA (British Independent Film Awards) 2020 | NOMINEE: Best Music - Original Score: THE REASON I JUMP |
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CINEMA EYE HONORS 2020 | NOMINEE: Outstanding Achievement – THE REASON I JUMP |
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IVOR NOVELLO AWARDS 2020 | NOMINEE: Best Original Film Score: FOR SAMA |
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IFMCA Awards 2019 | WINNER: Breakthrough Composer of the Year | NOMINEE: Best Documentary Score: UNTAMED ROMANIA |
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RTS CRAFT+DESIGN AWARDS 2019 | NOMINEE: Best Music – Original Titles EXTRAORDINARY RITUALS |
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BIFA (British Independent Film Awards) 2019 | NOMINEE: Best Film Score: FOR SAMA |
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HOLLYWOOD MUSIC IN MEDIA AWARDS 2019 | NOMINEE: Best Original Music for a Video Game Trailer: TELLING LIES |
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JERRY GOLDSMITHS AWARDS 2019 | NOMINEE: Best Documentary Score: EXTRAORDINARY RITUALS |
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MUSIC+SOUND AWARDS 2019 | WINNER: Best Original Music for a Video Game Trailer: TELLING LIES | NOMINEE: Best Original Music for a TV Programme Titles: EXTRAORDINARY RITUALS | NOMINEE: Best Sound Design for a Short Film : SLEEPER |
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NatureVision Film Festival, 2019 | WINNER: BEST FILM SCORE: Untamed Romania |
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GOPO Romanian Film Awards Nominee 2019 | NOMINEE: BEST FILM SCORE: Untamed Romania |
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RTS WEST AWARDS 2019 | NOMINEE: BEST TV SCORE: Extraordinary Rituals |
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ASIAN WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019 | NOMINEE: ARTS+CULTURE AWARD |
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ASIAN ACHIEVERS AWARDS 2017 | NOMINEE: CONTRIBUTION TO ARTS+CULTURE |
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MUSIC + SOUND AWARD UK 2016 | WINNER: BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE FILM SCORE: The Confessions of Thomas Quick |
| WOMEN IN SYNC AWARDS, NYC, USA 2016 | WINNER: BEST MUSIC IN A FEATURE FILM: The Confessions of Thomas Quick | |
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TMT NEWS MEDIA AWARDS 2016 | WINNER: BEST MEDIA MUSIC COMPOSER – EUROPE |
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