Miriam Cutler is an American composer best known for her documentary film work.
Life and career
Cutler is a Los Angeles-based film composer, scoring and performing music for over 20 years. She began her musical career as songwriter and clarinet player with The New Miss Alice Stone Ladies Society Orchestra; she then joined the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo as a clarinetist, and later founded the group Swingstreet. Due to her love of jazz, she was a co-producer on albums by the likes of Joe Williams, Nina Simone, Marlena Shaw, and Shirley Horn.[1] Miriam has served on a number of film festival juries including the first-ever World Cinema Documentary category at Sundance, The Film Independent Spirit Awards, The International Documentary Association Awards, and the AFI Film Festival Awards. She is a long-term board member of the Society of Composers & Lyricists and has served as an advisor in the Sundance Institute's Composers Lab in 2003, 2008, and 2010, and 2012.[2][3]
Miriam has also been the long-time composer for Circus Flora, based in St. Louis, MO.
On June 26, 2013, Miriam was voted into the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[4]
Scores
- Blue to Trancas (1988)
- Harry and the Lady Next Door (1988)
- Harry and the Dirty Dog (1988)
- Earth and Beyond (1989)
- Hollywood: A Town Remembered (1989)
- Ode to a Bit Player (1989)
- Orangutans: Grasping the Last Branch (1989)
- Prison of the Streets (1989)
- What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Cancer (1989)
- Getting Lucky (1990)
- Time Barbarians (1990)
- Witchcraft II: The Temptress (1990)
- Under Crystal Lake (1990)
- Cause of Death (1991)
- Witchcraft III: The Kiss of Death (1991)
- Pushed to the Limit (1992)
- Apollo 13: The Untold Story (1992)
- Shattered Lullabies (1992)
- Witchcraft IV: The Virgin Heart (1992)
- Beyond Fear (1993)
- Divorce Law (1993)
- Alien Intruder (1993)
- Witchcraft V: Dance with the Devil (1993)
- Eyes of the Serpent (1994)
- Streets of Rage (1994)
- Hot Line (1994) TV Series
- Body Parts (1994)
- Cause of Death (1994)
- The Dent (1994)
- Love Street (1994) TV Series
- Married People, Single Sex (1994)
- Witchcraft VI (1994)
- Night Fire (1994)
- Revenge of the Calendar Girls (1995)
- Superior People (1995)
- Witchcraft 7: Judgement Hour (1995)
- Close to Home (1996)
- The Death Pages (1996)
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- Searching for God in America (1996)
- Bikini House Calls (1996)
- Witchcraft VIII: Salem's Ghost (1996)
- Licensed to Kill (1997)
- Fender Philosophers (1997)
- I Stare at You and Dream (1997)
- Lost Borders (1997)
- Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Castro (1997)
- Deadlock: A Passion for Murder (1997)
- Girl Crazy (1997)
- Holes in Heaven (1998)
- Death: A Love Story (1999)
- Silent Scream (1999)
- The Double Like of Ernesto Gomez-Gomez (1999)
- God's Army (2000)
- Slender Existence (2000)
- Scout's Honor (2001)
- Amy's Orgasm (2001)
- Lost in La Mancha (2002)
- Downside Up (2002)
- Pandemic: Facing AIDS (2003)
- Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines (2004)
- One Wedding and a Revolution (2004)
- Divining the Human: The Cathedral Tapestries of John Nava (2004)
- War of Their Minds: Voices of American Kids (2005)
- Grief Becomes Me (2005)
- Positively Naked (2005)
- Stolen Childhoods (2005)
- China Blue (2005)
- Out of Faith (2006)
- The New Los Angeles (2006)
- California and the American Dream (2006)
- Absolute Wilson (2006)
- Thin (2006)
- Absolutely Safe (2007)
- Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007)
- The Longing (2007)
- View from the Bridge: Stories from Kosovo (2007)
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