Profile Details
- Country: Canada and United States
- Province/State: Arizona, California, and Quebec
- City: Chambly
- How do you Identify?: as a women composer
- Experience Level: Mid-Career
- Field of Work: Fiction/Scripted, Comedy Series, Drama Series, Kids, Animation, Narrative Film, and Documentary
- Union: Non-Union
- Interested In: Other
- Recent Credits: Bump in the night (2020)/ USA/Short fiction/ Ben Smith • Mum's the Word (2020)/Toronto/ Sound Design/Feature Documentary/Colin Scheyen/Ontario Arts Council and Canada Arts Council. • Fissure (2019)/Montreal/Short documentary/Elie Jean Tahchi/INIS
- Favourite Movies: Back to the future, LOTR, Arrival, Koyaanisqatsi Joker, Gladiator, the Godfather, Forest Gump, Red violin
- Favourite TV Shows: THE OFFICE, the Handmaid's tale, Outlander, Stranger things, Baking shows!
- Authorized to work in the USA?: Yes
- Contact Information: shamelintomala@gmail.com
- Link: http://www.stephaniehamelintomala-filmmusiccomposer.com/
Bio
Stephanie Hamelin Tomala is a composer, violinist, pianist and singer with a dual citizenship (American and Canadian). She is part Libanese, part Latina (ECUADOR) and part French canadian! Versatile composer, she can write in any musical genres. She has written music of over 60 short films, 2 feature documentaries, a feature TV show and a TV movie. Area 51(Austin film festival), What’s Within, Final Curtain, Orboros, Fermata (FNC), My invisible Mother (TIFF TOP TEN), With a thousand eyes(International film festival of Aubagne) and Femmes sourdes dites-moi…/Death women told me… are movies for which Stephanie has composed the music and they have made their mark in film festivals around the world. She also won 4 AWARDS with the SOCAN foundation in 2018 and 2019 for best original music for the animation film Area 51 and best original music for the fiction film What’s Within in 2018, For best original score for the fiction Final Curtain and best original score for the animation film Orboros in august 2019. Final Curtain was also a WINNER in the music score category at the Burbank International film festival, California, in 2019.
Her music was noticed in festivals and competitions like SOCAN Foundation, String Quartet SmackDown competition in Texas, Accès Arkéa, Open Ears Festival in Ontario, the Intercultural Orchestra of Montreal competition and the courts métrages 3/4 de Cinéma à la Scène Nationale de Valenciennes competition (France) in 2016 where she won best music. Some of her arrangements and compositions have been featured on network television such as Radio-Canada, Canal Savoir and Unis Tv.
Intro
Hi everyone!!!
My name is Stephanie Hamelin Tomala and I was born in Quebec, with Lebanese, Ecuadorian and French blood in my veins as my mom is an immigrant from Ecuador! I have a dual citizenship (American and Canadian). My diversity is part of me and I love it as I think it makes me unique as a composer. I take all these different cultures in my veins and put it into music. I was determined to become a film composer very young, after hearing the Lord of the Rings soundtrack. So i’m in search of cool projects that can reflect different cultures! I am currently working on 2 short animation films with the National film board of Canada that will be released this late fall and also a short horror film called Bump in the night directed by Benjamin Smith.
Reel/Clips
Documentary reel:https://vimeo.com/393787733
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Animation reel:https://vimeo.com/393764047
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Fiction reel:https://vimeo.com/388369799
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Music piece ''A tribute to Krakow'' for orchestra, recorded at the Warner Bros Studios: