NAINITA DESAI is one of the UK’s leading award winning composers and a BAFTA BREAKTHROUGH BRIT
Nainita Desai is a recent winner of the Music+Sound Award for Best Feature Film Score, a Women in Sync Awards 2016 Nominee, RTS Craft Award 2014 Nominee for Best Original Music and RTS Scotland Awards 2014.
Her musical foundations are rooted in documentary where she has forged an enviable reputation, working with leading film makers on hundreds of projects that have garnered OSCAR, BAFTA, EMMY awards and nominations, including Oscars, Emmys, Baftas, RTS (Best Music 2014 "The Day Kennedy Died"), and MUSIC + SOUND AWARDS 2016 win for Best Feature Film score for "The Confessions of Thomas Quick".
Nainita has recently completed scoring the Brian Hill Doc Musical "Mumbai High-The Musical" (BBC), and has worked with directors such as Werner Herzog, Bertolucci and Peter Gabriel amongst other well known artists.
Her current projects include the feature films The Reason I Jump (BFI / Met Films), 5 Years in Love and War (C4) by Emmy award winner Ed Watts, Darkness Visible (BFI) and WW2 drama Niihau.
Her latest projects include the features Untamed Romania, the most successful non-fiction film ever released in Romania that world premiered at Transylvania Film Festival 2018, The Life After (BBC / Irish Film Board) world premiering at Galway Intl Film Festival 2018, dramas Anemone (BBC Film | Film London), Exit Eve exec prod: Camille Gatin (The Girl With All the Gifts), and Interactive movie / video game Telling Lies for Annapurna Interactive (Phantom Thread) and multi-Bafta winning director Sam Barlow.
Ni’iHau – new feature film commission
April 17, 2017Nainita has been commissioned to score WW2 feature film Ni-ihau. Synopsis: When a pilot crash-lands on...
DARKNESS VISIBLE – new BFI Feature Film commission
April 17, 2017Nainita is scoring Darkness Visible – a BFI feature film currently in post production. The...
RITUALS – a major new series from the BBC NHU
April 16, 2017RITUALS, from the makers of Human Planet, will immerse the viewer in the spectacular and...
EARTH’S NATURAL WONDERS – new landmark BBC1 series
April 16, 2017A major new commission for BBC1 – EARTH’S NATURAL WONDERS – a 3 part series. Across...
HUNTING THE KGB KILLERS-9pm C4 Mon 17th Apr
April 16, 2017Radio Times: “fascinating, disturbing documentary” Financial Times: “a fantastic detective story” From BAFTA winning directors...
ALL MY CHILDREN – new BBC film renowned poet Simon Armitage
April 16, 2017All My Children, in collaboration with Simon Armitage CBE, Century Films and Director Sam Benstead,...
TRIBES, PREDATORS and ME- BBC series re-commissioned for S2 !
April 16, 2017Following on from the success of series 1, the multi award nominated series Tribes, Predators...
THREE NEW BBC TRAVELOGUE SERIES WITH A TWIST
April 16, 2017Soundology are scoring three major series for the BBC with new and established presenters: THE...
IN THIS CLIMATE
April 16, 2017Global cultural diplomats Liberatum will be releasing an impactful documentary titled “In This Climate” a powerful new film...
THREE new ITV and BBC commissions- momentous events
April 16, 2017Soundology have been commissioned to score three projects marking three major historical moments in history. DIANA:...
LOST IN LEBANON-Theatrical premiere
April 16, 2017Following a World Premiere at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2017, an International Premier...
LONDON’S BURNING new ITV series
April 16, 2017Soundology are scoring a new 3x60min ITV series for Mentorn Media. The series gives an...
AFRICA RIVER WILD-flagship Animal Planet series
April 16, 2017Made by Warehouse 51 and Aquavision, Soundology have scored this new blue-chip 7x60min series AFRICA RIVER WILD...
THE MURDER OF SADIE HARTLEY – ITV
April 16, 2017A Broadcast Award 2017 Nominee and RTS Award winner 2017 for Best Documentary, The Murder...
FIRST LADIES REVEALED – new Smithsonian commission
April 16, 2017Made by the same team that produced the hit Smithsonian series Million Dollar Princesses, this...
THE BIG FOOD RESCUE – BBC1 daytime commission
April 16, 2017A brand new daytime series that hit BBC1 recently: THE BIG FOOD RESCUE. Click HERE...
BRITAIN AT LOW TIDE – C4 new history series
April 16, 2017Every day, on a sandy beach or a rocky foreshore, fascinating evidence of our island...
B Is For Book – 1x60min BBC | Century Films
April 16, 2017The extraordinary story of a journey each of us only ever takes once…learning to read....
BAFTA BREAKTHROUGH BRIT 2016!!
October 26, 2016Nainita is incredibly honoured and humbled to have been selected to be a Bafta...
WINNERS OF BEST FILM SCORE at MUSIC+SOUND AWARDS 2016
March 4, 2016We are thrilled to announce that Nainita won the Siren Award for Best Original Composition:...
THE DETECTIVES 3x60min ITV
February 23, 2016A major new series for ITV THE DETECTIVES: INSIDE THE MAJOR CRIMES STEAM is now showing...
ICE TOWN: LIFE ON THE EDGE
February 23, 2016Soundology are writing music for the new series Ice People: Life on the Edge, coming...
TRIBES, PREDATORS & ME BBC NHU on BBC
February 23, 2016This major new BBC NHU series will air from March 20th on sunday nights. ‘TRIBES,...
BURMA’S SECRET JUNGLE WAR with JOE SIMPSON BBC2 series
February 23, 2016Work is nearing completion on this epic new series for BBC2 made by Arrow Media....
THE DAY HITLER DIED ITV / Smithsonian
February 23, 2016Directed by Craig Collinson and produced by Lorraine KcKechnie for Finestripe Productions, this unique ITV docu-drama...
HER STORY – flagship 4x60min BBC WORLD series
February 23, 2016Soundology are very proud to have scored this amazing and very relevant flagship series...
INTO THE WILD with Gordon Buchanan BBC 5x60min
February 23, 2016Soundology have been contributing titles and incidental music to this new series about to hit...
CAMERAMAN TO THE QUEEN – ITV TX Xmas Day 3.10pm
December 20, 2015Coming up on Christmas Day 3.10pm immediately after the Queen’s Speech is a one...
INTO THE WILD with Gordon Buchanan 5x60min BBC2
December 20, 2015Soundology have contributed the titles and original music to this major new series for BBC2....
MUMBAI HIGH – A DOCUMENTARY MUSICAL BBC
December 20, 2015Mumbai High is a dizzying and unique musical extravaganza. Set in a school in Dharavi,...
HER STORY 4x60min TX on BBC starting February 20th
December 20, 2015Soundology are proud to have scored this flagship series for BBC World News – HER...
THE DAY HITLER DIED 26th Dec Boxing Day USA TX
December 20, 2015Showing in the US on Dec 26th Smithsonian Ch 6pm,The Day Hitler Died is a...
DINOSAUR BRITAIN August Bank Holiday special
December 20, 2015Terrifying dinosaurs are brought back to life to trample across Britain in this amazing two-part...
BRITAIN BIGGEST ADVENTURES WITH BEAR GRYLLS
December 20, 2015Soundology have written an epic orchestral score for this brand-new three-part series for ITV that aired...
BBC INDIA SEASON September 2015
December 20, 2015This summer the BBC ran the India Season of programmes across it’s channels. Soundology wrote...
HUNTERS OF THE SOUTH SEAS-BBC2
December 20, 2015HUNTERS OF THE SOUTH SEAS – 3x60min BBC2 Series Producer: Jamie Balment / Will Lorimer...
LIVING WITH NOMADS with Kate Humble
December 20, 2015Visit the series website: CLICK HERE to find out more and watch some clips. The three...
THE CONFESSIONS OF THOMAS QUICK
March 21, 2015Work has recently completed on the Brian Hill / BFI / Film4 Theatrical Feature Doc The...
THE MEKONG WITH SUE PERKINS NEW BBC SERIES
July 7, 2014Just finished work on this new epic BBC series with the 'Great British Bakeoff' star...
SHEFFIELD DOC FEST SESSION + PANEL
July 7, 2014We ran a session about 'Music for Docs' and the inaugural Breakthrough Pitch to help...
RTS BEST MUSIC AWARD NOMINATION
July 5, 2014Proud to have been nominated for 'The Day Kennedy Died'....
XTREME ENDURANCE WITH RICHARD PARKS-CH5 SERIES
July 4, 2014M+N have just completed scoring all the music for an epic series for Channel 5...
NEW C4 SERIES-JOHN BARROWMANS PET HOSPITAL
July 3, 2014Look out for this new 15x30min TV series that delves into the world of pets...
JUDGING THE EMMYS
June 10, 2014We are proud to be on the jury for the Emmy's for this september !...
THE DAY THEY DROPPED THE BOMB – ITV & SMITHSONIAN
June 10, 2014We have Just completed this flagship Doc - a harrowing film to mark the 70th...
