SOCAN Foundation announces 2025 Award recipients for Emerging Screen Composers

The SOCAN Foundation has announced that it will distribute $25,000 among the 12 award recipients of 15 prizes in the 2025 edition of its annual Awards for Emerging Screen Composers.

“SOCAN Foundation believes in celebrating the achievements of young emerging artists,” said Charlie Wall-Andrews, SOCAN Foundation Executive Director. “These awards help support and foster the development of talented young SOCAN members across Canada.”

These awards showcase Canadian screen composers aged 30 or under for original themes or scores created exclusively for an audiovisual medium (television, film, Internet, etc.). Prizes were awarded in each of the competition’s five categories, and the works submitted were evaluated by juries comprised of several prestigious Canadian screen composers.

RECIPIENTS

Best Original Score – Animation
1^st Prize – Rachel McFarlane, for The School Bell
2^nd Prize – Nicolas Stackhouse, for Margo and Froggy: A Game of Hide and Seek (Episode 7)
Honourable Mention – Ethan Churchill, for Bytowne

Best Original Score – Fiction
1^st Prize – Braden Koksal, for For God’s Sake Wake Her Up
2^nd Prize – Abèle Kildir, for Les météorites
Honourable Mention – Andrés Galindo Arteaga, for Trapped In The Spotlight

Best Original Score – Non-Fiction
1^st Prize – Jad Orphée Chami, for Bleu Tango
2^nd Prize – Ethan Lawrence, for First Light
Honourable Mention – Abèle Kildir, for Lettre à nos corps

Best Original Theme (Opening or Closing)
1^st Prize – Kalaisan Kalaichelvan, for BET
2^nd Prize – Andrés Galindo Arteaga, for Murder She Toked
Honourable Mention – Ethan Churchill, for Bytowne

Best Original Score – Videogame
1^st Prize – Bruno Ouellet, for Royal Vermin
2^nd Prize – Tony Rosenberg, for Espionage Activity
Honourable Mention – Julien Guillemette, for A New World Awaits

SOCAN and SOCAN Foundation congratulate the winners on these great achievements!