Biography

Stephanie Hamelin Tomala is a composer, violinist, pianist and singer with a dual citizenship (American and Canadian). Versatile composer, she can write in many musical genres. Area 51(Austin film festival), What's Within, Final Curtain, Orboros, Fermata (FNC), My invisible Mother (Tiff Top Ten), With a thousand eyes and Death women told me... are movies for which Stephanie has composed the music and they have made their mark in film festivals around the world. She also won 4 Awards with the Socan foundation in 2018 and 2019 for best original music for the animation film Area 51 and best original music for the fiction film What's Within in 2018, For best original score for the fiction Final Curtain and best original score for the animation film Orboros in august 2019. Final Curtain was also a winner in the music score category at the Burbank International film festival, California, in 2019. She has written music of over 60 short films, 2 feature documentaries, a feature TV show and a TV movie.

Her music was noticed in festivals and competitions like Socan Foundation, String Quartet SmackDown competition in Texas where she was the winner 2 consecutive years (2019-2020), Accès Arkéa, Open Ears Festival in Ontario, the Intercultural Orchestra of Montreal competition and the short films 3/4 Cinéma at la Scène Nationale of Valenciennes competition (France) in 2016 where she won best music. Some of her arrangements and compositions have been featured on network television such as Radio-Canada, Crave, Super Écran, Telus Storyhive, Canal Savoir and Unis Tv.
- IMDb mini biography by: Stephanie Hamelin Tomala

Stephanie Hamelin Tomala is Canadian Screen Award nominated, SOCAN award winning composer with Ecuadorian and Lebanese origins and a dual American and Canadian citizenship. Stephanie's recent projects include the feature documentary directed by Nadia Zouaoui which aired on TV5 in 2024 and the fiction film ''Jedo's dead'' directed by Sara Nimeh which was a winner at 2024 SXSW, 3 collaborations with director Huda Razzak on award-winning animated short "The Ocean Duck", and 2 animated shorts featured on an episode of "Sesame Street » in season 54-55. She also scored the feature documentary My friend Omar which aired on CBC in 2024. She has composed music for productions with the National Film Board of Canada since 2020 and her score for the feature documentary "I Lost My Mom", awarded Best Canadian feature documentary at HOTDOCS 2023, was nominated for best documentary score at the 2023's CASMA Awards and 2024's Canadian Screen Awards.
- IMDb mini biography by: Stéphanie Hamelin Tomala