Independent Film Composer | Indie Film Composer Samples | Monica Dillon Music
As an Independent/Indie Film Composer, I love the challenge of taking a raw film or moving image and making it tell yet another story. It’s so exciting to see the interaction between the moving image and the music behind it. It’s like a marriage, I think. And the more in sync the two are, the better the experience.
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I have always loved film and music. I dare say since I was in the womb. I love musicals, even the patriarchal madness of Oscar Hammerstein. My challenge is to let the world know that women are as capable composers and men and we bring our own gifts to the scoring table as well.
I’m always happy to hear about other female composers out doing their thing. I hope you enjoy the samples below from the films I worked on last year. It continues to be my pleasure and privilege and I look forward to working with you too!!!!
In 2007, I scored a few really cool projects. Below are links to samples from each film as well as some trailer extras. I hope you enjoy them. If you’d like additional samples or would like to have me score your special project or film, please contact me with your request here.
I look forward to working with you soon.
Recent Original Film Scores:
Breaking Silences: A Supplemental Guide To NO! The Rape Documentary
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Breaking Silences: A Supplemental Video to NO!™ The Rape Documentary features selected in-depth excerpts from the thirty plus hours of footage that didn’t make it into the award winning, internationally acclaimed NO!™ The Rape Documentary.
This comprehensive video is compartmentalized into five individual segments, which feature compelling messages from women and men violence prevention advocates/activists and riveting testimonials from women who are multiple survivors of sexual violence.
My challenge with this film was to take a very heavy subject, hold the intensity, yet give folks the opportunity to occasionally take a break and not miss a single word of this very important film.
Belly Of The Basin
Belly of the Basin, produced and directed by Sisters Eye On Media, headed by filmmakers, Roxana Walker-Canton and Tina Morton is a powerful documentary about the untold stories of survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Filmed over the course of two and a half years, the film follows the progression or lack of progression in the city of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
My challenge with this film was to disconnect, reconnect, and then disconnect some more. Personally impacted by Hurricane Katrina, scoring this film was indeed a challenge and yet a wonderful opportunity to have my say musically perhaps even after Katrina has had her final say.
Black Womyn: Conversations With Lesbians of African Descent
Produced by filmmaker, producer, & director Tiona McClodden, black./womyn.:conversations is a feature-length documentary focusing on the lives and views of lesbians of African descent living in the United States. The documentary is structured by interviews—“conversations”—the director had with each of the women.
It features candid interviews with black lesbian women discussing coming out, sexuality and religion, love and relationships, marriage, patriarchy, visibility in media, discrimination and homophobia, activism, gender identity, Black lesbian youth and elders, balancing gender/race/sexuality, and, finally, what it means to call oneself a Black lesbian today.
The directors instructions were simple: I want piano…jazz piano…keep it simple. And here are some of the results.
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