Paul Brill Composer (Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer)

February 03, 2022

Paul Brill is a three-time Emmy Award nominee. He collaborated with Rock legends U2 on the HBO film, Burma Soldier, composing a new string arrangement for an acoustic version of their classic song, “Walk On.” He won the first-ever Best Music Award at the International Documentary Awards (IDA) for his score to “Better This World” and was nominated for a Golden Reel Award for his work on the hit Netflix docu-series, Bobby Kennedy for President. His work includes the hit documentaries, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, the Sundance Festival-winning films, Gideon’s Army, Trapped, and Love Free or Die, and the Emmy, DuPont and Peabody Award-winning, 6-hour PBS documentary, Many Rivers to Cross: The African Americans, with noted historian Henry Louis Gates and additional musical contributions from Wynton Marsalis.