Hunter Hanson

Hunter Hanson

History

Hunter Hanson is a composer and songwriter based in New York City whose music spans concert works, film and video game scores, songwriting, and music production and technology. He received his bachelor’s in music composition from Northwestern University and his master’s in Screen Scoring at NYU Steinhardt where he was awarded the Elmer Bernstein Award in Film Scoring. Hanson is currently an adjunct instructor in the Screen Scoring program at NYU. Hanson primarily scores and sound designs films and video games. He scored the horror film Dead Tongues which won “Best Feature Film” at the Portland H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and also works as a score technical assistant and music editor on projects such as Netflix’s Mixtape (2021), After Sherman (2022), and Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023).

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Hunter Hanson

Movies

Little Richard: I Am Everything
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Music Editor
Little Richard: I Am Everything tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n' roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator - the originator - Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard's complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon's life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions.
Dead Tongues
Dead Tongues
Original Music Composer
Following the mysterious suicide of her former lover, a woman teams up with his estranged twin brother to unearth the uncanny events preceding her ex-boyfriend's death. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's short story, "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family.”