Louis Gentile is an internationally-accredited composer and sound designer. He has contributed music for Netflix's 'Insatiable’, CBS’ ‘The Amazing Race’, TLC’s ‘Here Comes Honey Boo Boo’, HULU internet, Amazon Video on Demand, E!’s ‘Chelsea Lately’, Martha Stewart Living, Discovery, The Science Channel and The Learning Channel. Louis has also scored or contributed scoring for over two dozen films. Legendary composer Angelo Badalamenti has referred to Louis Gentile as "a composer, arranger, orchestrator of very high quality". His awards and honors include the SCL NY Composer Mentor Program, the Society of Composers and Lyricists (LA) Songwriter Sing Out!, the BMI Film Composer Workshop, Manhattan Producers Alliance Emerging Talent and the ASCAP Composer Showcase for the ASCAP/Columbia University Film Composer's Workshop.
As a guitarist, Louis has performed in Disney’s ‘High School Reunion: The Musical’, Godspell - 30th Anniversary revival (w/Stephen Schwartz), ‘Summer 69', the Musical Happening’, ‘Honky-Tonk Angel, The Story of Patsy Kline’ and Broadway at Bryant Park Shows, as well as backing up hundreds of people along the way.
Louis holds a B.A. in Theory and Composition/Performance and has studied music scoring and technology at NYU and Columbia University. He is an adjunct professor of music and has taught advanced audio recording, midi/synthesis and music theory, among others.
Unique traits: Speaking voice.
HULU internet
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Internet
Composer
Amazon Video on Demand
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Internet
Composer
EL GANZO
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Film
by Steve Balderson (Comedy and Romance)
Additional music Tells the story of a brief and intense companionship between two travelers: a struggling artist on the verge of a break-through (Anslem Richardson) and a mysterious woman with a hidden and unknown past (Susan Traylor). EL GANZO won the Best Feature Film Award at Salento International Film Festival held in Tricase, Italy 2015.
"BLAME"
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Film (short)
by Tyler Chatel (Drama)
Score Composer After the loss of their child, Mark and Allison must discover if there is anything left of their relationship to salvage.
Chelsea Lately
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Television
by E! Entertainment Television (Talk-Show)
Contributing Composer
Here Comes Honey Bo Bo
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Television
by The Learning Channel (Reality-TV)
Contributing Composer Reality television series that aired on TLC featuring the family of child beauty pageant contestant Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson.
"Death of Wales"
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Film
by Hawkeye Farms Films (Western)
Score Composer, Film Editing Intense, stylish tribute to Sergio Leones and Italian cinema during the 1960's.
THE AMAZING RACE-THE COW KICKED ME
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Television
by CBS Broadcasting Network (Reality-TV)
Contributing Composer THE AMAZING RACE is a multi-Emmy Award-winning reality series. Teams embark on a trek around the world. At every destination, each team must compete in a series of challenges, some mental and some physical, and only when the tasks are completed will they learn of their next location. The first team to arrive at the final destination winning THE AMAZING RACE and the $1 million prize.
THE AMAZING RACE-SHE’S A LITTLE SCARED
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Television
by CBS Broadcasting Network (Reality-TV)
Contributing Composer THE AMAZING RACE is a multi-Emmy Award-winning reality series. Teams embark on a trek around the world. At every destination, each team must compete in a series of challenges, some mental and some physical, and only when the tasks are completed will they learn of their next location. The first team to arrive at the final destination winning THE AMAZING RACE and the $1 million prize.
IMPACT: STORIES OF SURVIVAL-HIT BY A TRAIN
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Television
by The Science Channel (Action, Adventure and Reality-TV)
Contributing Composer Impact: Stories of Survival is a reality show based on actual life-threatening cases where the victim goes through a sudden moment of impact. The show allows viewers to fully understand the victim fights against all odds by using their will to survive.
“Project Greenshores”
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Film (short)
by Carrie Hunter (Documentary)
Song/Score Composer
"Suicide Note Translator"
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Radio
by Sandip Mahal (Mystery)
Opening and Closing Theme Composer
Melting the Snowman
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Film (short)
Composer - Closing Credits It's 1974 and Caroline Jamieson, a political columnist at the Los Angeles Times, has just been fired. To make matters worst, that evening Caroline must attend the the sixtieth birthday of her father, George, a prominent novelist. Throughout the night Caroline is ridiculed by siblings, has strange encounters with party guests, and is constantly prided by her father as she struggles to break the news to him. Will Caroline find the strength to come clean, despite the consequences?
2016 SCL (Society of Composers and Lyricists) Composer Mentorship Program
(2016)
2015 Society of Composers and Lyricists (LA) Songwriter Sing Out!
(2015)
2014 Composer Showcase for the 2014 ASCAP/Columbia University Film Composer's Workshop
(2014)
BMI Film Composer Workshop
(2011)
Manhattan Producer's Alliance "Emerging Talent"
(2010)