ABOUT
Mandy Hoffman is a visionary composer who has been writing for various mediums for over a decade, and is a member of The Academy of Motion Pictures. She has scored numerous films, series, advertisements, and art installations that have appeared in theaters, top film festivals, television networks and galleries all over the world. Recently her music has moved to the concert stage, with works premiered by The Orchestra Moderne at Lincoln Center (2019) and The Hollywood Chamber Orchestra at The Wiltern in Los Angeles (2018).
Her collaborations with director Azazel Jacobs have garnered critical acclaim, and her orchestral score to A24's The Lovers (2017) not only received abundant praise from the press, but it ended up on Film Music Magazine's Top Ten Best Scores of 2017. It was also called "..a stealth contender for one of the finest film music of the century so far" by The Moveable Fest, and The Hollywood Reporter dubbed it "an uncommonly crucial score".
She worked with director Minhal Baig and executive producer Jada Pinkett Smith on the poetic feature Hala (Overbrook Entertainment), which premiered at Sundance 2019 and then on Apple TV+. Shapeless, a genre-pushing horror feature directed by Samantha Aldana, premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.
Hoffman teamed up with Joey Soloway on the lauded Amazon Studios series titled I Love Dick (2017), and her music can be found on a myriad of television shows. She scored the Anna Kendrick led comedy, Dummy on Quibi/Roku (2020) as well as multiple episodes of the hit Netflix documentary series Street Food (2022).
She has also collaborated with world-class artists including Marcos Lutyens (Mutually Assured Architectures) and Barbara Husar (Lidschlag der Libelle oder die Schädelnaht am Himmelszvelt) to present installations in distinguished galleries located in New York, Paris, Los Angeles, Vienna, Milan, Switzerland, amd Sweden.
She is a multi-instrumentalist with a keen understanding for dramatic nuance, and can write honestly in many musical styles and genres. She is both versatile and unique. After being told countless times that her music sounded “cinematic”, she pursued serious musical training, first as an multi-award winning student at Pasadena City College’s prestigious music program and then was certified at UCLA Extension’s celebrated Film Scoring Program.
She is active in the composing, filmmaking, and activist communities, and often appears on panels discussing her craft and ideas. She is an adjunct professor at Steinhardt's Screen Scoring Graduate Program (NYU), and is a repeat guest lecturer at Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema/Media Scoring (CUNY) and Sound Thinking (CAT). Hoffman is a board member at the Alliance for Women Film Composers and is passionate about amplifying the voices of those who may not be heard so loudly.
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