Jongnic Bontemps

Jongnic Bontemps also known as JB is a composer and musician who has worked on over 50 projects in film, shorts, documentary films, TV series and video games.[1] He is the music director for 2016 skateboarding-focused drama film The Land[2] The soundtrack features collaborations with Erykah Badu and Nas including the song "This Bitter Land". He also wrote the music for the 2018 roller skating documentary United Skates.[3][4] The hip hop influenced documentary premiered in the Tribeca Film Festival.[5]

Bontemps is a classically trained composer with roots in the church and jazz world as a pianist. Coming from Brooklyn, New York he studied music at Yale University, Berklee College of Music and the University of Southern California.[6] becoming a graduate of the Scoring for Motion Picture and Television program at USC.[5] He worked as a software developer and startup executive in New York City and later Silicon Valley before specializing in music. He was selected as a Sundance Lab Composer Fellow in 2013 and received a Time Warner Artist Fellowship in 2014. Bontemps' film Faith Under Fire, premiered on Lifetime in January 2017.[1] His work has been heard in various award winning films at Cannes Film Festival, Warsaw International Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival, American Black Film Festival, as well as on television networks like HBO, BET, Disney and in various cinemas worldwide.[1]

Filmography
Films
  • 2016: Sharia
  • 2016: The Land
  • 2017: Faith Under Fire
  • 2018: United Skates (documentary)
TV series
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gollark: > I disagree. The model of the solar system, galaxies, orbits and all that is even more complex.The flat earth needs that too if they want to explain stars and stuff neatly.
gollark: Sorry, orbital *brain improvement* lasers.
gollark: Alternatively, orbital mind control lasers.
gollark: Force people into psychiatry or something if they hold the !!BAD!! opinion to make them not believe it. What could possibly go wrong.

References
  1. United Skates film team: Jongnic Bontemps - Music Producer bio page
  2. Indiewire: Sundance Exclusive: Listen To Jongnic Bontemps’ “All Gone” From ‘The Land’
  3. Medium.com: 3 Questions With ‘United Skates’ Composer Jongnic Bontemps
  4. xlr8r.com: Jongnic Bontemps 'Skate Celebration'
  5. Amsterdam News: Composer brings hip-hop elements to new doc ‘United Skates’ at Tribeca Film Fest
  6. Los Angeles Sentinel: Music Composer Jongnic Bontemps Brings His Silicon Valley Tech Brilliance and Hip-Hop Rhythmic Elements to “United Skates”
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