SCGC awards SOCAN CEO Jennifer Brown for service to screen composer industry

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The Screen Composers Guild of Canada has honoured SOCAN CEO Jennifer Brown with the 2025 SCGC Award for Distinguished Service to the Industry, which recognizes individuals or companies whose outstanding contributions have made a lasting impact on the screen composer ecosystem in Canada.

In a statement, the SCGC said, “Jennifer’s leadership has had a meaningful and lasting impact, through her commitment to collaboration and open communication. She’s demonstrated what it means to lead with purpose and integrity, and as a result, has strengthened our organizations and the members we represent. As SOCAN’s CEO, Jennifer Brown is a strong voice for music creators, striving every day to  build a more equitable, transparent, and creator-focused music community in Canada.”

The award was presented during the fourth edition of the Canadian Screen Music Awards (CASMAs), held at El Mocambo, in downtown Toronto, on Sept. 10, 2025.

Other winners at the event were:

Best Original Main Title Theme Music (sponsored by SOCAN)
Suad Bushnaq, for Al Batal (The Hero)

Best Original Song (Sponsored by Music Publishers Canada)
Matthew O’Halloran, Steph Copeland, and Kibra Tsegaye, for  Trapped in the Spotlight

Best Original Score, Animated Series or Special
Spencer Creaghan for Hot Wheels Racerverse – The Complete STAR WARS + Hot Wheels RacerVerse Saga!, Episode 106

Best Original Score, Comedy Series or Special
Caleb Chan and Brian Chan, for North of North – Episode 108, “Bad Influence”

Best Original Score, Documentary, Factual, Reality Series or Special
Zachary Greer, for Into the Fray – Episode  3, “All the Quiet Voices”

Best Original Score for a Documentary Feature Film
Justin Delorme, for The Nest

Best Original Score, Dramatic Series or Special (Sponsored by DGC National)
Steph Copeland and Michelle Osis, for Mord Auf Der Inka-Pfad (Murder on the Inca Trail) – Episode 4, “Truth”

Best Original Score for Games and Interactive Media
Shaun Chasin, for The Electric Forest

Best Original Score for a Narrative Feature Film (Sponsored by Orchestral Tools)
David Parfit and Marc Junker, for The Worlds Divide

Best Original Score for a Short Film (Sponsored by Cinesamples)
Spencer Creaghan and Chris Reineck, for Spaceman

Best Original Score for a Television Movie
Andrés Galindo Arteaga, for Trapped In The Spotlight

The CASMAs were held in the evening, after a full day of events at the fourth annual Screen Composers Summit, presented by the SCGC, in partnership with SOCAN and the Alliance of Women Film Composers (AWFC), during the 50^th annual Toronto International Film Festival.

Those gatherings included the AWFC Film Music’s Beyond the Glass Ceiling, a candid conversation moderated by Jennifer Brown, with screen composers Sarah Slean, Steph Copeland and Alexandra Petkovski, and industry representatives Trish Klein (CORE Music Agency); and Heather Gardner (Guild of Music Supervisors Canada); Scoring Starts Here, an educational session that included SOCAN L.A. Ambassador Robert Kraft ; Unlocking the Mysteries (and Money) Behind Production Music,  that included screen composer Janal Bechthold and Hard Music CEO Ross Hardy; Composing Through the Storm, sponsored by SOCAN, that featured Brown and SOCAN General Counsel Andrea Kokonis; and a  CASMAs panel, Stories Behind the Cue, during which CASMA nominees Justin Delorme, Erica Procunier, Suad Bushnaq, Andrés Galindo Arteaga, and Caleb and Brian Chan shared cues, production stories, and collaboration insights.