Stephanie Hamelin Tomala

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.