2023 JUROR
Raphaelle Thibaut
Composer // Film + TV
France
Raphaelle was enrolled in piano lessons from age 4 and she graduated from the music conservatory of Lille, France in 2002 and eventually landed a marketing position with Google, which she left in 2015 after a life-changing event at Abbey Road Studios which inspired her to pursue her lifelong passion for music and film scoring.
In just a few short years, her music has been featured in a diverse set of films and tv series.
2021 was a landmark year for Raphaelle in which she scored the Emmy award-winning Disney+/National Geographic nature docuseries Secrets of the Whales, produced by James Cameron and narrated by Sigourney weaver. A cinematic, live-in-concert symphony orchestra experience for the series is forthcoming which will tour venues around the United States.
Recent scoring credits include the feature documentary Introducing, Selma Blair, which was honored with the special jury award at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival, Fantastic Beasts: a Natural History for Warner bros. & the BBC, the feature documentary Mama’s Boy: A Story from Our Americas, produced by Amblin & LD Entertainment for HBOMax, and Three Mothers, Two Babies and A Scandal for Amazon Prime.
Upcoming for Raphaelle is the thriller feature ClearMind and the BBC documentary Operation Satanic: The Sinking of The Rainbow Warrior.
French composer Raphaelle Thibaut was nominated as a Breakthrough Composer of the Year by the International Film Music Critics Association.
