JESI NELSON Composer

Jesi Nelson is Korean born, Wisconsin raised, based composer for film & media. She is an alumna of the highly competitive Sundance Film Music & Sound Design Lab (2017) held at Skywalker Ranch and was the recipient of the Sundance Institute and Time Warner Foundation grant, where 11 diverse independent artists were chosen from different Sundance labs, in its continued efforts to discover and support independent artists from diverse backgrounds. She is also an alumna of the prestigious ASCAP Composers Workshop with Richard Bellis (2018).

Jesi won the film & media community’s heart with her music that played over 2018’s Sundance Film Festival promo trailer that preceded every film at the festival that year. She assisted composer Michael Kramer from 2015-2017, where she wrote additional music for the Emmy nominated series Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures and Emmy nominated series Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu, under his lead. She continues to write additionally for an array of projects in film and television, while continuing her own projects.

As a result of the Sundance labs, she scored the award-winning feature film JINN, directed by Nijla Human, which had its premiere at the 2018 SXSW film festival to great acclaim, and won the Special Jury Award. JINN had a theatrical and nationwide release later in the 2018 year.

Jesi’s recent credits include Seasons 1 & 2 of Playmobil’s animated series Novelmore, the trailer music for ’s Dota: Dragon’s Blood (TV Series) as well as additional music for the series, and Lucasfilm’s VR & Series Star Wars: Biomes and Star Wars: Vehicle Flythroughs. Jesi was Lucasfilm’s first female BIPOC hired to work on their projects as lead composer.

VR CREDITS

Star Wars: Biomes Producers: Daniel Cavey & Laura Moore Lucasfilms & Disney+

FILM CREDITS

Jinn The Moon and the Night (Ka Mahina a Me Ka Director: Nijla Mumin Po) (Short) Confluential Films Director: Erin Lau *Winner Special Jury Award at SXSW

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Gone Are the Days (Music Preparation) Saving Brinton (additional music) Director: Mark Landre Gould Directors: Tommy Haines & Andrew Sherburne Oculi Entertainment Bocce Balls Films Composer: Kubilay Uner Dead Roses (Short) (additional music) Faded (Short) Director: John Fuentes Director: Pongkarnda‘Kik’ Udomprasert Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Chapman How 2 Get Big (Short) University Director: Scott Wilson Columbia College, Chicago Anyuta (Short) Director: Clemy Clarke Get the F K Outta Paris (Short) (Music Preparation) Valmora Productions Director: Greg Emetaz Composer: Andrew M. Edwards Valley of Bones (Music Coordinator) Director: Dan Glaser Bad Medicine Films Composers: Michael Kramer & Corey Wallace

TELEVISION CREDITS

Star Wars: Vehicle Flythroughs (TV Series) Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures Producers: Daniel Cavey & Laura Moore (additional music) Lucasfilms & Disney+ Executive Producers: Torsten Jacobsen, Bill Motz, Bob Roth, Jill Wilfert & Erik Wilstrup Dota: Dragon’s Blood (TV Series) (additional The LEGO Group music) Producers: Eugene Lee, Steven Melching & Ashley Miller Teen Wolf (additional music) Netflix Animation Executive Producers: Tim Andrew, Joseph P. Genier, Rene Composer: Dino Meneghin Echevarria, Marty Adelstein, Tony Disanto, Liz Gateley, Michael Thorn, Keith Birkfield, Christopher Ottinger Novelmore (TV Series) (co-composer) MGM Television Producers: David Flack & Louise Barkholt Executive Producer: Erik Wilstrup Playmobil/Wil Film APS

Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu (additional music) Executive Producers: Torsten Jacobsen, Irene Sparre Hjorthoj, Erik Wilstup, Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman, Kieth Malone, Robert May & Jill Wilfert Wil Film

LOCATION

Los Angeles, CA

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WEBSITE

http://www.jesinelson.com

REPRESENTATION:

Rochelle Sharpe at Incite Management Inc. P: (818) 223-9307 E: [email protected]

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