Scott Hallgren

Scott Hallgren has an extensive list of film, TV, music video, and gaming work as a sound designer, boom operator, and composer, including the Emmy-nominated civil rights documentary "We Shall Not Be Moved: the Nashville Sit-Ins" which also won him both a 2011 Silver Telly and Golden CINE Award; "Sith'd", Best Comedy at the 2006 Comic-con; the 2017 award winning APT/PBS documentary “Perfect 36: How Women Won The Vote”; and 2020’s “Frank”, which won Best Music at the Independent Horror Movie Awards. In 2023, he won Best Original Score at the Paris Film Awards for "The Resistance”.

He is the author/editor of PERFORM: Composing for the Screen by Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

In a previous life, Scott was a touring, live event, and studio musician for artists such as: Donna Summer, Sir Elton John, Aaron Neville, Andrae Crouch, Gloria Estefan, Ricky Skaggs, The Wilkinsons, Eddy Arnold, David Foster, Larry Gatlin, Steve Wariner, Marc Antony, and Margaret Becker. For 8 years he was a Grammy voter and committee member in the Nashville chapter. His first album for Magnatune, “Live… in Studio C” has gained almost two million plays on Spotify.

Mr. Hallgren is an affiliate member of the Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild, an AVID Certified Instructor for ProTools, and a Dolby Developer. He has also been selected to be a Design/Innovation Team Member, focusing on surround sound, storytelling, and virtual reality in the D/I Hub. He has served as a panelist or on the selection committees of the Seattle, Nashville, Cleveland, and Highland Square (Akron) film festivals, and was an Oscar qualifying short films juror for the 46th Cleveland International Film Festival. He serves on the Advisory Board for the Seattle Film Institute and as Board President of Mind Balloon Films.

His classes include: Sound for Picture, Post Production Sound, Music in Film/TV/Games, Sound Design, Scoring for Picture, and Production II (capstone).                        

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