Composer, Nainita Desai (Telling Lies, For Sama)

TSAP S03E10 Sam chats with composer Nainita Desai about her
career, working on Telling Lies, For Sama, and more! 


Special thanks to Callum Tennick for
editing. 


Intro Track: "Midnight" from Telling Lies
 
Outro Track: "Leaving Home" from For Sama 


Working at the forefront of a new wave of emerging
artists, RTS and BIFA nominated
composer Nainita is a BAFTA Breakthrough
Brit, and is the International Film
Music Critics Association Breakthrough Composer of
2020. She has scored countless BAFTA, Oscar, Emmy
acclaimed productions. The PRS placed Desai at No 2
in their Top 10 female writers whose work was
most used in Film & TV through 2018. She has also been
awarded Best Original Music at
the Music+Sound Awards
2019 and Naturvision Film Festival
2019.


Nainita’s most recent feature releases include OSCAR
2020 nominated and BAFTA, Cannes,
BIFA, SXSW winning feature doc For
Sama which was also nominated for Best
Music at the BIFAs 2019. Other recent projects
include Untamed Romania, the most successful
Romanian non-fiction film of 2018, WW2 period
drama Enemy Within, psychological
horror Darkness Visible [BFI], and
Interactive game / video game Telling
Lies one of the top critically acclaimed releases
of 2019 by Annapurna
Interactive including Scala Radio’s
Top 5 Video Game Scores of the
Year and Music+Sound
Award winning Title track.


Her 2020 projects include feature film The
Reason I Jump (Sundance World Cinema Doc
Audience Award winner), upcoming Netflix
original series Bad Boy Billionaires and
innovative Quibi | BBC Studios series Fierce
Queens.


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