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Nainita Desai
Composer Nainita Desai is the RTS 2020 winner for Best TV score and 2021 World Soundtrack Awards winner for Discovery of the Year. She is a trailblazer in the world of film + TV who has brought her unique voice to the scores of hundreds of acclaimed films.
Not only did she win a Music+Sound Award last year for her incredible score on the feature The Reason I Jump, she is also an Ivor Novello (2020), double BIFA, and Cinema Eye Honors nominee; a BAFTA Breakthrough, and the IFMCA Breakthrough Composer of the year 2019.
Amongst various BAFTA, Oscar and Emmy acclaimed productions, Nainita’s recent projects include Oscar nominated and BAFTA, BIFA & Cannes winning feature doc For Sama, Sundance and BIFA winning feature The Reason I Jump, Bafta nominated American Murder [Netflix’s most watched documentary to date], ITV crime drama series The Tower (Gemma Whelan), BBC drama series Unprecedented (James Norton, Olivia Williams), and Interactive game / video game Telling Lies, the acclaimed release by Annapurna Interactive.
Current scores include Amazon and Apple TV feature: The Wall – Climb For Gold, Netflix: 14 Peaks (exec: Jimmy Chinn) as well as upcoming drama series for BBC1, SKY, Disney+ and NBC, forthcoming shows for ITV, Apple TV+ and a video game for Electronic Arts.
Following a degree in Maths and studying sound for film at the NFTS in the UK, Nainita began her career as a sound designer on feature films for directors including Werner Herzog and Bertolucci, as well as assistant music engineering for Peter Gabriel.
She moves seamlessly between working with orchestras, to creating scores that incorporate electronics, ethnic elements and found sound, all of which has informed herexperimental and deeply immersive approach to composition.
