Suad Bushnaq (b.1982)

Suad Bushnaq, a dual Canadian-Jordanian citizen of Bosnian, Palestinian and Syrian heritage, is a four-time Canadian Screen Awards nominated, and Hollywood Music in Media Award-winning composer whose versatile style spans a number of genres. With more than 40 film credits to date, she has scored award-winning features and shorts that have screened at festivals including La Biennale di Venezia, Locarno, Hot Docs and Edinburgh. She was competitively selected for the Festival de Cannes ‘Spot the Composer’ programme, and the SESAC film scoring residency in Los Angeles where she was mentored by composer Christophe Beck. Other awards Bushnaq has received include a Best Original Score at the Fine Arts Film Festival in Los Angeles.

She holds a Bachelor in Music Composition from Canada’s top music school, McGill University, and is an alumna of the Canadian Film Centre Slaight Music Residency. Suad was recently nominated for a Canadian Screen Award (Canada’s equivalent to a BAFTA) for her score for the feature film Jasmine Road directed by Warren Sulatycky, and recently scored Hanging Gardens, a feature film by Ahmed Yassin Al-Daradji, which had its world premiere at the 79th edition of La Biennale di Venezia 2022.

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