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Jongnic Bontemps, also known as JB is an American composer and musician who has worked on over 50 projects in film, shorts, documentary films, TV series and video games. He is the music director for 2016 skateboarding-focused drama film The Land 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. The hip hop influenced documentary premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Bontemps is a classically trained composer with roots in the church and jazz world as a pianist. He was born in Brooklyn to a Jamaican mother and a Haitian father, who met in New York in the 1970s. He studied music at Yale University, Berklee College of Music and the University of Southern California. becoming a graduate of the Scoring for Motion Picture and Television program at USC. 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. 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.
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Last Night in Rozzie
2021-03-20
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Red
2013-06-20
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Wedding Season
2022-08-04
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Ten Million Throwaways
2021-09-21
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Voodoo Macbeth
2021-12-09
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Reopening Night
2021-12-20
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The Barber of Little Rock
2023-07-21
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Actors Anonymous
2017-03-05
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Second Team
2020-01-30
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The Land
2016-07-29
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
2023-06-06
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Where My Memory Began
2024-02-09
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World's Best
2023-06-23
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Candid
2017-11-30
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A Different Tree
2013-06-19
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Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story
2020-04-29
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Mr. Talented
2018-08-11
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The Zoo
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19 Weeks
2020-04-30
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My Name Is Pauli Murray
2021-09-17
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Sharia
2016-02-12