Pru
Montin
Composer
Australian born, LA based composer and sound designer Pru Montin is fast creating a name for herself as a dynamic and inventive composer of film and media scores. With a gift at sampling, she sculpts evolving sonic worlds from any sound source (discovered means, electronic, traditional or ethnomusical) into meticulously orchestrated emotional musical journeys. Her unique approach and freshly relevant sounds have led to features by ASCAP as a “Composer to Watch” and APRA’s World IP Day Innovator in 2018. Pru won the coveted biannual APRA AMCOS Professional Development Award for Film and Television in 2019 and was the 2016 recipient of the prestigious Brian May Scholarship.
Whilst in the US she has fast become a sought after collaborator having worked with Hollywood composer’s Cliff Martinez (The Neon Demon , Drive), Adam Peters (Icarus, Snowden), Michael A Levine (Cold Case, Siren) and Andrew Hewitt (The Double, Villains). She has also collaborated with acclaimed directors Mary Lambert (Pet Sematary , Like a Virgin) and Richard Elfman (Forbidden Zone). Her film music has screened internationally (including the award-winning black comedy Heck! at Cannes and Palm Springs) and can be heard currently on the Australian ABC shows, Dream Gardens, Club Arak and feature Moon Rock for Monday.
In 2012, Pru received significant funding from the Australian Film Television and Radio School to develop a full size interactive music game myOrchestra, an exploration into creating an environment that uses gesture to compose through the conductor-like control of an orchestra using timbre, structure and dynamics as its main parameters. A beta version was presented at conferences including AGSC and APRA’s Glories of the Score in 2013.
Selected Credits
FILM
Villains (Additional Music)
Gunpowder & Sky
Director: Dan Berk, Robert Olsen
Producers: Garrick Dion, Allan Mandelbaum, Tim White, Trevor White
Starring: Bill Skarsgard, Maika Monrie, Jeffrey Donovan
5 (Documentary)
Director: Phillip Gladkov
Producers: Phillip Gladkov , Francis Agyapong
Suite for Fleur Suite For Fleur
Director: Ron V. Brown, Ruth Brown
Producers: Rebecca Ann Brown, Ron V. Brown
Starring: Luke Jacobz, Patrick Flynn, Jessikah Brown
Sunshine and Shade
Indivisual Films
Director: Ana Tiwary
Producers: Ana Tiwary
SERIES
SLUT (Composer, Sound Designer)
Director: Louise Alston, Rain Fuller
Producers: Melissa Chapman, Rain Fuller, Nicole Dixon
Starring: Rain Fuller, Ali Tehrani, Betsy Sodaro
Siren (Additional Music)
Freeform
Director: Nick Copus, Joe Menendez, Steven A. Adelson
Producers: Matt Morgan, Eric Wald, Dean White
Starring: Alex Roe, Eline Powell, Fola Evans-Akingbola
Dream Gardens
Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Producers: Jo Wathen
Starring: Michael McCoy
Bromance
Art City
Director: Greg Contaldi
Producers: Brian Alevis
Starring: Brian Alevis, Greg Contaldi, Robert Zaia
SHORT FILM
Wet. Warm. Dribble (Upcoming)
Director: Aaron Peterson
Producers: Sarah Linton Pru Montin Composer, Sound Design
Cold Hearts
Director: Danielle Baynes, Yolanda Ramke
Producers: April Tafe
Starring: Marcus Graham, Yolanda Ramke, Danielle Baynes
For Quality and Training Purposes
Shann Studios
Director: Shannon Browning
Producer: Martin Theobald
Starring: Robin Royce Queree, Caroline McQuade
Treasure
Director: Lucas Sachs
Producers: Edward Sampson, Katie Schiller
Starring: Paul Glover, Wayne Hapi, Andrew Monro
SHORT FILM (CONTINUED)
E.very D.ay
Writer In The Dark Productions
Director: Jordan Hidalgo
Producers: Misha Osherovich, Angelica Santiago
Starring: Josh Bonzie, Giuliana Carr, Rob Moretti
Delicious Poison
Director: Amanda Michelle Tenney
Producers: Essi Virtanen
Starring: Amanda Michelle Tenney, Ben Michael Brown, William Guirola
Ordinary Gods (Additional Music)
USR Digital
Director: Pascui Rivas
Producers: David Brooks, Colby Gottert, Leandro Ipina
Starring: Oliver Burke, Gaston Guruceaga, Emanuel Mammana
Club Arak
Red Seeds
Director: Fadia Abboud
Producer: Alissar Gazal
Our Brother Jordan
Director: Kaitlin Sophia Sprague
Starring: Kaitlin Sophia Sprague
3 Minutes
Shann Studios
Director: Shannon Browning
Producers: Gita Irwin
Starring: Lauren Hamilton Neill, Joseph Westwood, Nicholas Linehan Pru Montin Composer,
Oasis (Composer, Sound Designer)
Director: Joshua Longhurst
Producers: Annmaree Bell, Craig Boreham
Starring: Chris Dingwall, Alex Packard
I Remember You
Director: Ramon Samson
Producers: Ramon Samson
Starring: Martin Estridge, David Lewis, Paul Anthony Rogers
School Zone
Director: Barry Gamba
Producers: Barry Gamba
Starring: Alice Ansara, Rayan Elrihani, Wassim Hawat
Broken Time
Director: Barry Gamba
Producers: Barry Gamba
Starring: Nisrine Amine, Enrique Corea, Dilber Hussain
Kettle (Composer, Sound Designer)
Director: Maximilian Homaei
Producers: Renae Louise Moore
Starring: Kelly Butler, Christian Byers, Jai Koutrae
Ravage
Director: Jaime Lewis
Producers: Leonie Rothwell
Starring: Joshua Longhurst, Heather Mitchell, Ash Ricardo
Moth
Director: Meryl Tankard
Producers: Suzanne Mackay
Starring: Sophie Lowe, Beatrice McBride, Madeleine Madden
SHORT FILM (CONTINUED)
Percy
We Did This Pictures
Director: Belinda Fitzpatrick
Producers: Belinda Fitzpatrick, Kate Talbot
Starring: Reg Gorman Pru Montin Composer, Sound Design
Mugged
Director: David Hawkins
Producers: Kate Talbot
Starring: Richard Davies, Daniel Daly, Bryce Hardy
Progress
Director: David Hawkins
Producer: Kate Talbot
Starring: Craig Annis, Debbie Zukerman, Ian Dixon
The Perfect Place
Director: Christopher W. Bailey
Producers: Christopher W. Bailey, Eleni Bailey
Starring: Hailey McQueen, Luke Edward Smith, Kirryn Zerna
Heck
Director: Tanya Goldberg
Producers: Lisa Hoppe, Bobbie Waterman
Starring: Robina Beard, Lester Morris
Making Tracks (Additional Music)
Director: Megan Riakos
Producer: Megan Riakos
Starring: Amber Lawrence
The Kings
Director: Leonie Savvides
Producer: Leonie Savvides
The Traveller
Director: Vijay Boothalingam
Producer: Priya Rajkumar, Priyadarshini Rajkumar
Starring: Adam Allsop, Sid Bose, Chary Iyer
Todd’s Story (Composer, Sound Designer)
Director: Belinda Fitzpatrick
Producer: Belinda Fitzpatrick
Thimbles
Director: Justin Olstein
Producer: Justin Olstein
Starring: Diana Greentree, Bojan Seles Pru Montin Composer, Sound Design
SOUND MIXING AND EDITING
5
A Good Girl
Be Famous
Ben and Mimi – Mimi and Ben
Blood Pulls a Gun
Bound by Blue
Broken Time
Club Arak
Dr. Salt
Fatland
For Quality and Training Purposes
Gone Out
Grandfather Paradox
Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens and Geeks
The Astronaut
The Boondi War
The Hoarding