Biography
Paul Brill is an American composer, songwriter, and producer based in Brooklyn, New York.
Brill is a three-time Emmy Award nominee who has scored feature films, television series and NPR Radio Themes, most notably: Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, The Devil Came on Horseback, The Trials of Darryl Hunt, Freakonomics, Full Battle Rattle, Page One: Inside the New York Times, Better This World, and No Woman, No Cry, among others. Brill scored the HBO film Burma Soldier, on which he collaborated with Rock legends U2 - composing a new string arrangement for an acoustic version of their classic song, "Walk On." He won the first-ever Best Music Award at the International Documentary Awards (IDA) for his score to "Better This World" and was nominated for a Golden Reel Award for his work on the hit Netflix docu-series, Bobby Kennedy for President.
He recently made his Off-Broadway debut, composing the score for Gabriel Jason Dean's Terminus, which featured stage legend Deirdre O'Connell and premiered to great acclaim at The New York Theatre Workshop, and his music was performed and featured by Phoenix Chamber Music Society in the Spring of 2018.
His additional notable work includes the Sundance Festival-winning films Gideon's Army, Trapped, and Love Free or Die, and the Emmy, DuPont and Peabody Award-winning, 6-hour PBS documentary, Many Rivers to Cross: The African Americans, with noted historian Henry Louis Gates and additional musical contributions from Wynton Marsalis. He scored Abigail Disney's directorial debut, the Emmy Award-winning The Armor of Light, Liz Garbus' Peabody Award-winning HBO documentary A Dangerous Son, and wrote the Theme and incidental music for the Peabody Award-winning NPR Podcast, Believed.
His recordings of original songwriting have been hailed as "stunning" by Paste magazine and "A testament to the enduring potency of classical pop songwriting," by Pitchfork Media. In addition to composing films and television specials for HBO, Showtime, History, A&E, National Geographic, SundanceTV and MTV, Brill is the ongoing composer for the popular A&E series The First 48, now in its 17th season. In 2001, he founded Scarlet Shame Records, a small record label that has released recordings by The Wingdale Community Singers, The Flying Change, Amber Rubarth and his own records.Brill also owns and operates a recording and production studio, Sterling Society Social Club in Brooklyn, New York. He is also a mediocre softball player (ha).
Filmography
all 73
Movies 71
TV Shows 2
The Lady Bird Diaries (2023)
My So-Called High School Rank (2022)
Crossings (2022)
What We Do Next (2022)
The Conservation Game (2021)
Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer (2021)
Takeover (2021)
Vernon Jordan: Make it Plain (2020)
Love & Stuff (2020)
Represent (2020)
Call Your Mother (2020)
Screenagers Next Chapter: Addressing Youth Mental Health in the Digital Age (2019)
Kingdom of the White Wolf (2019)
No Small Matter (2019)
Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story (2019)
Our Time Machine (2019)
If the Dancer Dances (2019)
Paris to Pittsburgh (2018)
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook (2018)
Reversing Roe (2018)
A Dangerous Son (2018)
Bobby Kennedy for President (2018)
The Providers (2018)
Intelligent Lives (2018)
Perfectly Normal for Me (2017)
One Big Home (2017)
haveababy (2017)
One October (2017)
It's Criminal (2017)
Trumped: Inside the Greatest Political Upset of All Time (2017)
The End: Inside The Last Days of the Obama White House (2017)
Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing (2016)
The Student Body (2016)
Death by Design (2016)
See Memory (2016)
Winning (2016)
Check It (2016)
Screenagers (2016)
Trapped (2016)
The Armor of Light (2015)
In My Father’s House (2015)
Sweet Micky for President (2015)
The Republic of Two (2013)
Branded (2013)
The Other Shore: The Diana Nyad Story (2013)
The Only Real Game (2013)
Stuck (2013)
Gideon's Army (2013)
Alias Ruby Blade (2012)
Knuckleball! (2012)
Love Free or Die (2012)
Sexy Baby (2012)
Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron (2012)
Duke 91 & 92: Back to Back (2012)
CatCam (2012)
Sex for Sale: American Escort (2012)
The First Season (2012)
Happy New Year (2011)
Page One: Inside the New York Times (2011)
Better This World (2011)
It's Good to Be the President (2011)
American Call-Girl (2011)
Burma Soldier (2010)
No Woman, No Cry (2010)
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010)
JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America (2009)
Right America: Feeling Wronged (2009)
Do No Harm (2009)
Full Battle Rattle (2008)
The Trials of Darryl Hunt (2007)
The Devil Came on Horseback (2007)
Way Off Broadway (2001)
National Geographic Explorer: Guerilla Gold Rush
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GenderMale
Birthday1950-01-01 (74 years old)
Birth PlaceUnited States of America, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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