Bio

Samantha Williams is a film and media composer born and raised in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her recent experience includes custom trailer work and music production for Olivier & Tony award-winning company AF creative media. She recently wrapped a project with RedBull media house, being selected as a composer/producer on their album release “The Orchestrals II”. She was flown to Vienna, Austria to record at the world-renowned Synchron Stage and produce the track. “Helix” was further mixed in Dolby Atmos with and is released on all streaming platforms as well as licensed to BMG production music for sync purposes.  Samantha has numerous credits writing original music for nature documentaries some of which include : PBS, NOVA special “Sea Change: The Gulf of Maine” and PBS, Nature "Tusker: Brotherhood of Elephants".

 

Nominated for best score for her work on “Juno: The Graveyard of Memories” (Dir. Tariq Stone) at the Berklee Film Scoring Network Festival, Samantha has created her compositional foundation working on various short films and creative projects from film schools across the country. She’s worked on Films from California College of the Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rhode Island School of Design, Mass Art, Emerson College, San Francisco State University, and Maryland Institute College of Art. Through her close collaborations with film directors and artists, Samantha has established herself as a composer that’s “pushing creative boundaries’’ and dedicated to achieving excellence in her work.

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​Credits

• Tusker: Brotherhood of Elephants (dir. Allison Argo) - Composer

• Sea Change: The Gulf of Maine (dir. Brian Skerry) - Composer

• Juno The Graveyard of Memories (dir. Tariq Stone) - Composer

• Oh Honey Take me Away! (dir. Theo Garvey) - Composer

• The Babysitter (dir. Liane Catsburrow Linnet) - Composer

• Dreaming of Carhartt (dir. Tariq Stone) -

• Composer Jeager (dir. Code Arnaud) - Composer

• The Decisive Moment (dir. Box Chen) - Composer

 

Awards

• Red Bull Scoring Challenge Winner - 2025

• Nomination, Best Score “Juno: the Graveyard of Memories”

• Berklee Film Score Network Festival - 2024

• Berklee “World Tour” Scholarship for Piano performance - 2021

 

Fact Check

Home Turf:

Silver Spring, Maryland

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Education:

B.M Berklee College of Music

 

Instruments:

Piano

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Musical Influences:

Thomas Newman, Olafur Arnalds, Max Richter, Steve Reich, Hania Rani