Nathan Halpern is a Brooklyn-based composer, recently named one of Indiewire’s “15 Composers to Watch.” His score for Rich Hill, winner of the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary, was praised as “one of the best non-fiction scores we’ve heard in years” (Indiewire). He composed the score for The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present (HBO Films). In 2015 he re-teamed with Rich Hill co-director Andrew Droz Palermo for the Kiernan Shipka-starring supernatural thriller One and Two (IFC Films), which Variety called “hauntingly scored.” In 2016 he re-teamed with Rich Hill co-director Tracy Droz Tragos for Abortion: Stories Women Tell (HBO Documentary Films), which premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. Early 2016 saw the Sundance premiere of The Lovers and the Despot (Magnolia Pictures), praised by Indiewire for Halpern’s “excellent score.”
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