Suad Bushnaq MAD Celebrity
Suad Bushnaq MAD Celebrity
Suad Bushnaq MAD Celebrity

Suad Bushnaq

Biography
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Hailed as an ‘incredible artist’ by the legendary Hans Zimmer, Suad Bushnaq is a multi-award-winning film music composer whose versatile style spans a number of genres, and whose music, described as “reflective and touching” by the BBC, has moved listeners to their core.

With more than 40 film credits to date, she has scored award­-winning features and shorts that screened at festivals like La Biennale di Venezia, Locarno, Hot Docs, and Edinburgh. She was also competitively selected for the Festival de Cannes’ Spot the Composer Program and the SESAC’s Film Scoring Residency in LA, where she was mentored by A-list composer Christophe Beck.

Her awards include a Hollywood Music in Media Award for her Orchestral piece Tomorrow, and Best Original Score for the feature film Jasmine Road from the Fine Arts Film Festival in LA amongst others. In terms of education, Suad holds a bachelor's in music composition from Canada’s top music school, McGill University, and is an alumna of the prestigious and highly competitive Canadian Film Centre Slaight Music Residency.

A Canadian Jordanian citizen of Bosnian, Palestinian, and Syrian roots, Suad is currently working on releasing her AFAC-supported album The Edge of Life: Soundtracks from Arab Cinema. She was also recently nominated for a Canadian Screen Award (Canada’s equivalent to a BAFTA) for her score for the feature film Jasmine Road 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 the Biennale di Venezia.

Suad also participated in the International Women in Music Program organized by UN Women in cooperation with United Voices for Peace Network on the sidelines of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67) as part of the celebrations of International Women's Day 2023, where the United Nations Symphony Orchestra played the song Tomorrow.

Suad’s latest work includes Netflix’s original series CRASHING EID, as well as Hani Khalifa’s long-awaited film CAIRO-MECCA and Fatima Al Banawi’s directorial debut BASMA.

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Filmography
  • Soon Cairo-Mecca
  • Soon Mountain Boy
  • Soon Basma
  • 2022 Hanging Gardens
  • 2022 Montréal Girls
  • 2022 Incorrigible
  • 2022 Salma's Home
  • 2021 Aswat Acherim
  • 2020 In Her City
  • 2020 Connecting the Dots
  • 2020 Jasmine Road
  • 2020 I Do, or Die - A Killer Arrangement
  • 2020 Hockey Mom
  • 2018 The Borrowed Dress
  • 2016 Twice Upon a Time
  • 2015 The Curve
Short Films
  • 2022 Corvine
  • 2022 MP3
  • 2022 Road to El Kef
  • 2021 Lovesick in the West Bank
  • 2021 The Algorithm
  • 2021 Night
  • 2021 Body Politics
  • 2020 Coming Home!
  • 2019 A Very Important Appointment
  • 2019 Colors of Resistance
  • 2018 Sand. Rock. Palm.
  • 2018 Greta Follows Rivers
  • 2018 Yasmina
  • 2018 Tight Spot
  • 2018 The Dead Die Once
  • 2017 Setback of the Spirit
  • 2017 (Out)caste
  • 2016 Stadt, Licht & Bewegung
  • 2015 About Her
Tv Series
  • 2023 Crashing Eid
  • 2022 The Nature of Things
  • 2021 Qata'ef
  • 2019 Ashbridge
  • 2019 16 Hudson
  • 2013 Peeta Planet
Awards & Honors
Awards
  • 2022 Hollywood North Film Awards|Best Original Score for Incorrigible
  • 2022 Ontario Arts Foundation|Kathleen McMorrow Music Award|2021 Recipient
  • 2021 Fine Arts Film Festival of the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art |Best Original Score for Jasmine Road
  • 2021 Hollywood Music in Media Awards|Exceptional Orchestral Performance for Tomorrow
  • 2019 Artemis Women in Action Film Festival - Los Angeles|Best Foreign Score for The Borrowed Dress
  • 2019 Beyond Foundation Music Creativity Award presented by Larry Klein for Born Today