Samuel Jones
Composer
Between composing scores for film and television, producing and engineering for artists, and performing as a member of indie art-rock band DYAN, Samuel Jones has been a part of the vibrant Los Angeles music scene for over a decade.
Sam’s scoring work has encompassed a wide range of projects from Netflix’s 2018 animated feature Next Gen – featuring a 65 piece orchestra recorded at London’s AIR Lyndhurst – to six seasons of TNT’s hit drama series Animal Kingdom. As solo artist and prolific collaborator, Sam has contributed music ranging in style from electronic minimalism to lush orchestral to over 15 feature films, as well as TV, documentaries, video installations for internationally renowned artists, and advertising campaigns.
Apart from the film and TV world, Sam has lent technical expertise and creative skill as a producer, recording engineer, and mixer to a variety of artists and music projects, including saxophonist Sam Gendel, experimental singer-songwriter-producer Katie Gately, jazz pianist Richard Sears, and avant-garde composer Ethan Braun. His production and guitar work with DYAN has resulted in the Looking For Knives album and Absence EP, both of which have been mined by music supervisors for major network TV and streaming placements.
Sam was born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, where he studied guitar and film scoring at University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. He spends his time away from the studio devouring films from around the globe, reading literary fiction and philosophy, and roaming the hills of Silverlake.
Selected Credits
FILMS
* With Alexis Marsh
Next Gen*
Netflix
Directors: Kevin R. Adams, Joe Ksander
Producers: Jeff Bell, Patricia Hicks, Charlene Logan Kelly
Starring: James Franco, Jason Sudeikis, Michael Peña
Ingrid (Documentary) *
Director: Morrisa Maltz Producer: Morrisa Maltz
Target Zero (Documentary)
Director: Mary Posatko Producer: Mary Posatko Starring: Elisa Gabrielli
At All Costs (Documentary) *
New Man Media
Director: Mike Nicoll Producer: Ian Ward
Equity Broad Street Pictures
Director: Meera Menon
Producers: David Alan Basche, Frank Thomas
Starring: Anna Gunn, Carrie Preston, James Purefoy
* 2016 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Competition
Looking at the Stars (Documentary) *
Elo Company
Director: Alexandre Peralta Producers: Alejandro Ernesto, Melissa Rebelo Kerezsi, Corina Maritescu
Delinquent LKD Films
Director: Kieran Valla
Producers: Alvaro Baquero Benedetti, Daniel Marks, Levi Smock
Starring: Kim Director, Erin Darke, Bill Sage
20 Years of Madness (Documentary) *
Director: Jeremy Royce
Producers: Kaveh Taherian, Jerry White Jr.
Starring: Jerry White Jr., Joshua Tate, Joe Hornacek
Lila & Eve *
A+E Studios
Director: Charles Stone III
Producers: Darrin Reed, Sara Risher, Julius Tennon
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Viola Davis, Andre Royo
*2015 Sundance Film Festival World Premiere
FILMS (CONTINUED)
You See Me (Documentary) *
Director: Linda Brown Producer: Linda Brown
We’ll Never Have Paris *
Bifrost Pictures
Director: Simon Helberg, Jocelyn Towne
Producers: Robert Ogden Barnum, Simon Helberg, Katie Mustard
Starring: Melanie Lynskey, Maggie Grace, Zachary Quinto
Preservation *
Present Pictures
Director: Christopher Denham
Producers: Jennifer Dubin, Cora Olson
Starring: Pablo Schreiber, Aaron Staton, Wrenn Schmidt
Half Brother *
InvisiFilm
Director: Anthony Grippa
Producers: Stephen Paratore
Starring: Elizabeth Masucci, Casey Biggs, Jenny Dare Paulin
Sex(Ed): The Movie (Documentary) *
Circus Road Films
Director: Brenda Goodman
Producer: Brenda Goodman
Intersection R3 International
Director: Tim French
Producers: Rick Irvin
Starring: Hoyt Richards, Anabella Casanova, Johnny Williams
I Am I *
Present Pictures
Director: Jocelyn Towne
Producers: Jennifer Dubin, Cora Olson
Starring: Simon Helberg, Jason Ritter, Kevin Tighe
Farah Goes Bang *
Farah Goes Bang Productions
Director: Meera Menon
Producers: Danielle Firoozi, Erica Fishman, Laura Goode
Starring: Michael Steger, Kate French, Lyman Ward
SERIES
Animal Kingdom *
TNT
Producers: John Wells, Llewellyn Wells, Jonathan Lisco
Starring: Ellen Barkin, Scott Speedman, Jake Weary
The House: A Hulu Halloween (Mini-Series) *
Hulu
Producers: Louis Gropman, Daniel Marks, Levi Smock
Starring: Lisa Marie Summerscales, Lary Hankin, Noa Drake
SELECTED SHORT FILMS
Aleppo *
Made By Me *
The Raw Truth *
Polar Opposites *
Odyssea *
In Passing *
The Caretaker *
Adán *
Wini + George *
Ojala *
Dr. Gutman’s Eulogy *
Alaska Is A Drag *
Kalifornija *
Paying For It *
Record Breaker *
The Owl Who Had a Wish Tangled To Its Foot *
The Bride Of Frank *
WEBSERIES
As It Lays *
Creator and host: Alex Israel *