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Kareem Roustom

Kareem Roustom

composer - performer

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Film Credits

 

Film Scores:

Love Sick (2015)
Dir. Priya Giri Desai & Ann Kim

1913: Seeds of Conflict (2014)
Dir. Ben Loeterman

May In The Summer (2013)
Dir. Cherien Dabis

My Neighborhood (2012)
Dir. Julia Bacha

The Iran Job (2011)
Dir. Till Schauder

Budrus (2010)
Composer
Just Vision, Directed by Julia Bacha
• Winner, Panorama Audience Award Second Prize, Berlin International Film Festival, 2010
• Winner, Audience Award, San Francisco International Film Festival, 2010
• Winner, Special Jury Mention, Tribeca Film Festival, 2010

The Mosque in Morgantown (2009)
Composer
V1 Productions/PBS; Directed by Brittany Huckabee
• 2010 News & Documentary Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Individual Achievement In A Craft: MUSIC & SOUND

Amreeka (2008)
Composer
First Generation Films; Directed by Cherien Dabis
• Nominated for Best Picture 2009 Gotham Awards
• Winner FIPRESCI Prize (International Critics Award) Cannes 2009
• Official Selection of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival

Kemo Sabe (2006)
Composer
Directed by Rana Kazkaz; produced by Julio Caro
• Official selection at Shorts Corner/Cannes Film Festival

Encounter Point (2006)
Composer
Just Vision; Directed by Ronit Avni & Julia Bacha
• Winner of the Best Musical Score Award at 2006 Bend International Film Festival (Bend, OR)

The Letter (2003)
Additional Music/Composer
Hamzeh Mystique Films; Directed Ziad Hamzeh

Border (2002)
Composer
Directed by Annette Solakoglu
• Best Short Film Award 2002 Santa Barbara International Film Festival

Undressed (2001)
Additional Music/Composer Episodic TV
MTV Productions

Shadow Glories (2000)
Composer (Feature Film)
Hamzeh Mystique Films; Directed by Ziad Hamzeh

The Two Of Us (2000)
Orchestrator (Feature Film)
Paramount Pictures

Me, Myself & Irene (1999)
Orchestrator (Feature Film)
“Where He Can Hide”
Fox Pictures; Song by Tom Wolf

Beggars & Choosers (1999)
Orchestrator (Episodic TV)
Showtime-Granada Entertainment

Cold Feet (1999)
Orchestrator (Episodic TV)
NBC Productions

My Little Assassin (1999)
Orchestrator (Feature Film)
Lifetime Network

Hopes On The Horizon (1999)
Composer (Documentary)
Blackside Productions

I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998)
Additional Music/Orchestrator (Feature Film)
Muse Productions

Selected Discography:

2011 Budrus Original Soundtrack
Composer
Just Vision Inc.

2010 The Boston Children’s Chorus This is the sound of Harmony
Featured composition “Hot Tea, Mint & Olives”

2009 Damascus Festival Chamber Players Syrian Contemporary Music
Featured composition “Buhur”

2008 Encounter Point Original Soundtrack
Composer
Just Vision Inc.

2008 Emel komm in mein leben
Composer, producer, arranger & performer
TBA Music, Zurich, Switzerland

2007 Beyonce’ B’day [Deluxe Edition”
Arranger
Sony Music

2006 The Psalms of Ali Ufki
Performer (Oud)
Dunya Music

2005 The Boston Camerata “A Mediterranean Christmas”
Performer (Oud & Guitar)
Warner Brothers Classics Label

2005 Sharq Arabic Music Ensemble “Revival”
Producer/Arranger and Performer (Oud)

2004 El-Zafeer Ensemble “Almitra’s Question”
Fuller Street Music
Composer, Producer, Performer (Guitar)

2003 Chicago Classical Oriental Ensemble “The Songs of Sayyed Darweesh:
The Soul of a People”
Xuaen Music
Producer, Arranger, Performer (Oud)

© 2006–2025 Kareem Roustom, Layali Music