Jeronimo Restrepo

Colombia

Jeronimo is 24 years old, was born in Colombia and is now based in Vienna, Austria. From a young age, he learned to play the piano, saxophone, drums, and violin. He has also been part of different choirs throughout his life, starting with the Vienna Boy's Choir, the choirs of the Vienna Choir School and the Neue Wiener Stimmen. Later on, he discovered his passion for film and composition, and his first experience as a film composer was for an Austrian film that went on to be screened at the Diagonale Film Festival in Graz. Though he enjoyed filmmaking as a whole, he decided to focus on contributing to films in the best way he could; creating the music. Having graduated in Theatre, Film and Media studies, he embarked on the MFA degree at the Film Scoring Academy of Europe, in which he had the opportunity to work with three different directors for the films 'Her', 'One Last Laugh' and 'Bird and Whale'. As a musician, he also pursues a solo artist career and is the lead singer of an Austrian Metal band.

Shawn Karpinka

United States

Shawn Karpinka is a composer, musician, and songwriter from Saskatoon, SK, Canada. He is one half of acclaimed duo The Karpinka Brothers, whose last album was recorded by Howard Bilerman (Leonard Cohen, Arcade Fire) at his legendary Hotel2Tango studio in Montréal. Shawn studied film scoring through London's Guildhall School prior to enrolling in the FSAE Online Graduate Diploma program. He is a lover of film and television, and film scoring is his passion. He often attends films on opening night with his friends, and his wedding took place in a historic movie theatre.

Andrés Walker

Chile

Andrés Walker is a Chilean/American film composer and producer. He has specialized in scoring for animation, collaborating with several animation studios, including the Oscar winners Punkrobot. Clients include Funko (shorts for Disney, Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel), Disney Jr. and Cartoon Network. He is currently writing music for some exciting new projects. He has scored many ads for Coca-Cola, Trivento, Chevrolet, and Concha y Toro, among many others. With an eclectic musical voice, Andrés’ goal and mission has always been to empower great stories with his music and to support and extend the director’s creative goals. Andrés holds a MM in Film Scoring from New York University. He was the recipient of the NYU Steinhardt Graduate Scholarship and the Chilean National Scholarship.