Music on Film Social Mixer

With a passion for music and collaboration, Catherine Joy is a composer for film, media, and live performance. Early in her career, she won Best Documentary Score for the uplifting feature documentary Gold Balls. Catherine then scored the documentary Naughty Books (Hulu), featuring narration by Aisha Tyler, Allison Tolman, and Aimee Garcia, resulting in an ASCAP Composers Choice Award nomination. Her narrative feature, Potato Dreams Of America, had its world premiere at SXSW 2021. She also scored the documentary Prognosis: Notes on Living, which is about the final journey of Oscar-winning social justice filmmaker Debra Chasnoff.

Leah Meyerhoff wrote and directed the magical realist feature film I Believe in Unicorns starring Natalia Dyer and Peter Vack, which was released theatrically after premiering at the SXSW Film Festival, winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Atlanta Film Festival and additional awards from Tribeca Film Institute, San Francisco Film Society, Woodstock Film Festival, and the Adrienne Shelly Foundation. A New York Times critic’s pick, I Believe in Unicorns, was described as “an honest, complicated portrayal of adolescent female sexuality on film” and “a beautiful 16mm nightmare and one of the most visually accomplished feature debuts of late.” Meyerhoff’s previous short films and music videos have been screened in over 200 film festivals and aired on IFC, PBS, LOGO, and MTV. Nominated for a Gotham Award, Meyerhoff is a fellow of the IFP Narrative Finishing Labs, Tribeca All Access Labs, and Emerging Visions program at the New York Film Festival. Meyerhoff is also the founder of Film Fatales, a non-profit organization that advocates for gender parity and supports hundreds of women feature filmmakers worldwide. Meyerhoff holds a BA in Art-Semiotics from Brown University and an MFA in Directing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. ICM Partners represent Meyerhoff.

Starr Parodi first came on the scene playing keyboards as part of the house band on the hit late-night Arsenio Hall Show and has performed or recorded with artists from Carole King, Al Green, Mavis Staples, Ray Charles to Mariah Carey. As a composer, Starr’s illustrious credits span feature films, episodic television, (The Starter Wife, Transformers: Rescue Bots, The Division, G.I. Joe: Renegades), concert works and hundreds of iconic movie trailers (James Bond, Harry Potter, Dreamgirls…) . Her solo piano artistry has been featured on NPR, KCRW, The BBC ,and iHEART Radio and has won numerous awards. A trailblazer onstage and in the studio, Starr is the current president of the Alliance for Women Film Composers and is widely recognized as a leader in expanding the reach of women in the arts as a composer, producer, performer and cultural visionary.