RAY SISTERS

A film composer and co-director, Austin Ray grew up on the Californian/Mexican border. Musically, her natural style is cinematic and atmospheric, yet melody-driven. It evokes images of hidden pathways, wide-open spaces, and forgotten history using a blend of real instruments and electronics. She has scored commercials for BMW, Amazon, United Nations, Wildlife Conservation Society, etc. Her original music can be heard in “Into the Silent Sea” (dir. Andrej Landin) and “Chiaroscuro” (dir. Daniel Drummond), which have won the Student Academy Award and BAFTA Student Film Award, premiered at Telluride Film Festival and Palm Spring Int’l Short Festival, Vimeo Staff Pick, among others. In the documentary realm, she has composed shorts starring NBA basketball star Blake Griffith for Players’ Tribune, along with Island Earth, a feature documentary on the issue of GMO’s. Her co-directorial debut, “The Listening Box”, which she additionally composed, was honored by the Directors Guild of America and was a Semi-Finalist at the Student Academy Awards, along with the Austin Film Festival [Audience Award Winner] and Savannah Film Festival [HBO Best Student Short Winner]. In 2019, she received the Kinsale Shark Award for Best New Music Composer and was selected for The Society of Composers & Lyricists’ 2020-2021 Mentor Program. In late 2022, her debut instrumental Artist EP "Minerals" released, inspired by the natural landscapes and elements that ground us and artists akin to Ólafur Arnalds, Ludovico Einaudi, Enya, and Hania Rani. In collaboration with Canadian neoclassical label enjou, she’s released multiple singles, including “Océan” and “Voix de Gaïa”. Austin is a member of AWFC and SCL.