Nainita Desai

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Acclaimed with three recent Emmy nominations and an Emmy win in 2022, Nainita Desai is a Royal Television Society award winning composer. She won the World Soundtrack Awards Discovery of the Year 2021. As well as being a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit, double BIFA, Cinema Eye Honors, Ivor Novello nominee, Nainita won the Women In Film & TV Award for Creative Technology 2022.

Her recent projects include an epic 10 part fantasy action adventure series for Disney+, Oscar winner John Battsek’s feature The Deepest Breath (A24, Netflix), Oscar nominated and BAFTA and Cannes winning feature documentary For Sama, Sundance and BIFA winning feature The Reason I Jump, an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity. Other recent credits include, BBC1 Action thriller Crossfire (Dancing Ledge / Keeley Hawes), Bafta nominated American Murder [Netflix’s most watched documentary of 2020], ITV crime drama series The Tower (Mammoth Screen; Gemma Whelan), as well as Netflix hit 14 Peaks : Nothing Is Impossible (exec: Jimmy Chinn), Predators for Sky/Netflix, and the iconic Call of Duty video game franchise for Activision.
Upcoming projects include landmark natural history series Earthsounds for Apple TV+, the ITV crime drama show The Tower s3 (Mammoth Screen / Gemma Whelan), feature docs for Universal, Netflix, as well as premium series for James Cameron / Nat Geo, and a video game for EA Originals.

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