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Rebecca Everett

COMPOSER . SONGWRITER . FILM . TV

Composition

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Bespoke Songs

Rebecca Everett is a film composer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. She was recently nominated for a Canadian Screen Award and is a Juno nominated songwriter. Her diverse background as an orchestral violinist, in-house songwriter (Ole), jazz vocalist (iSpy), music producer and theatre sound designer bring an eclectic sensibility to her film composing and Bespoke songs for film & tv.

 

"Rebecca Everett is a proven songwriter with a unique talent to sing and deliver a performance that captivates and penetrates the heart and soul of life"

 

- Roman Klun (Sarah McLaughlin, Levon Helm, Ornette Coleman)

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Since being awarded the Slaight Music Residency as a composer at the prestigious Canadian Film Centre, Rebecca has composed on numerous feature films, musicals and TV projects.

 

She has recently garnered a CSA nomination for best song in the feature film Mother of All Shows featuring "genuinely snappy musical numbers" (Globe and Mail) starring Wendie Mallick (2024). You can hear the official soundtrack from her score here.

Rebecca is a JUNO nominated songwriter and was signed to OLE. She co-wrote songs in Canada, US and Europe for JUNO nominated albums, radio singles & TV and film placements.

 

Rebecca is also a board member for the Screen Composer Guild of Canada. The SCGC is Canada’s national association of professional composers and producers of music for film, television and media.

 

FILM

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Mother of All Shows

Mother of All Shows

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UNTETHERED by Rebecca Everett featuring throat singers Althaya Solomon and Echo Henoche

UNTETHERED by Rebecca Everett featuring throat singers Althaya Solomon and Echo Henoche

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The UR Enough Campaign: #loveURself

The UR Enough Campaign: #loveURself

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Records
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“This indie-rock noir goddess has entranced me with her beguiling sounds. Mix a little rockabilly with Portishead and The Doors and add a female singer with some serious moxie.”

A Little Bit of Sol

Swampy, Bond-esque rocknroll Telecaster driven record Seven Shades by Rebecca Everett & the Dead Ringers, has garnered many accolades, headlining at SXSW and featured in films

Rebecca also writes and sings for iSpy, a 5 piece jazz manouche band..swing & blue notes with soul & spaghetti Western twang. Their songs have been featured in film and television

Record Releases - Seven Shades Rebecca Everett & the Dead Ringers (SXSW Austin, TX), YoYo iSpy, Matter of Time Rebecca Everett

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Awards & Festivals

 

FESTIVALS include..'Best Of' at The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Calgary, Blood in the Snow, CUFF (Calgary Underground Film Fest), Hexploitation, Deep Cut, Inside Out LGBTQ, North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Fest,Austin, Edmonton, Canadian, Toronto Shorts International Film Fest

2024 Canadian Screen Award Nominee - Achievement in Music - Best Song

2021 SOCAN Emerging Screen Composer Lab

2017/2016  CFC - Canadian Film Centre Slaight Residency (Composer/Songwriter)

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The Christmas Witch Trial of La Befana  I am thrilled to share that the high priestess herself, Anjelica Huston, has signed on as the lead witch, La Befana in the upcoming feature I am scoring!! I am also co-writing the songs in the film with writers, Melissa D'Agostino and David Brock. The film is a hybrid combo using rotoscoping, 2D and 3D animation directed by Melissa D'Agostino & Matt Campagna, produced by Highball TV. More news to come!!

The Mother of All Shows "Genuinely snappy musical numbers" (Globe and Mail)

           

The Mother of All Shows theme song, MOTHERS and DAUGHTERS written by Rebecca Everett, Melissa D'Agostino and David James Brock is up for ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC-  BEST ORIGINAL SONG for the Canadian Screen Awards 2024! We were so happy to have Sarah Slean sing this beautiful, heartfelt song. What an honour to be nominated by my friends and colleagues in the film industry. The awards are are held on MAY 30th, 2024.

and...The Mother of All Shows  TORONTO friends! Mother of All Shows is coming to Toronto! Come and join us at HOT DOCS March 5th at 7:30pm. You can get your tix on the hot docs website - https://hotdocs.ca/whats-on/films/mother-of-all-shows
Can't wait!

 

Clickbait Unfollowed  Thanks to composer extraordinaire, Spencer Creaghan for having me do a super fun swampy, dreamy remake of the song This Little Light of Mine for this comedy/horror film. AND...congrats to the team!

The Mother of All Shows is having it's Canadian Premiere at the Kingston Canadian Film Festival MARCH 2nd, 2024! Get your Tix here.

The Mother of All Shows  It’s today at the Glendale Laemmle Cinemas in Cali!   Do NOT miss your chance to see the luminous Wendie Malick & Melissa D'agostino slay the stage in #MotherofAllShows - Now playing at the Glendale Laemmle Cinemas from Aug 4-10 

 

The Mother of All Shows  The theme song Mothers and Daughters (Daughters and Moms), is just released and available on streaming sites! SPOTIFY

Writing original songs for the film with Melissa D'agostino and David James Brock was wonderful and we're so excited to have the amazing Sarah Slean record our single "Mothers and Daughters". We had a blast writing this over-the-top, throwback ballad; hope you enjoy listening to it. We'll be releasing the full soundtrack later this year, so don't touch that dial!

The 39 Steps  Nice review from the Picton Gazette! They even mention the sound/music I did :)
Congrats to everyone! Amazing cast with Brandon McGibbon, Courtenay Stevens, Courtenay ChngLancaster, Helen Belay and Director Monica Dottor. County Stage and all the production crew!

 

The 39 Steps   County Stage Theatre Company Summer in Prince Edward County is pretty sweet! The show is up and running! A super fun adaptation by Patrick Barlow of the famous Alfred Hitchcock film, The 39 Steps. Vaudeville, Clown, Film Noir and 60's lounge music all wrapped up in silly. I'm happy to have created the Sound Design, written some original music and procured some vibey retro music in these styles I love. Here's a little review by The Intelligencer. It's running til August 6th 2023! Come join us in wine and food country and get your tickets here

 

 

The Mother of All Shows  Winner! The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival has not only won the 'Outstanding Narrative Feature Film' but also 'Outstanding Director of a Narrative Feature Film' at the 2023 @theartofbklyn Film Festival! Congrats Melissa D'Agostino, David Brock and Matt Campagna!

The Mother of All Shows  World Premiere at The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival

MOAS is coming to New York June 1st, 2023! We are happy to announce the world premiere is happening at The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival on opening night. Wendie Malick (Young Sheldon, Hot in Cleveland, Bojack Horseman) who stars in the film as the mother Rosa, will be joining us for the premiere and panel discussion. If you're in NY and in particular Brooklyn on June 1st and want to join us you can buy tickets here

The Mother of All Shows The Hollywood Reporter

Very excited to share the Exclusive by the Hollywood Reporter.

Cannes First Look: ‘Young Sheldon’ Star Wendie Malick in Musical Feature ‘Mother of All Shows’ (Exclusive). The film is directed by and also stars Melissa D’Agostino, who plays a woman coping with the impending death of her estranged mother and who retreats to a 1970s variety show in her mind...click here to read more...and more to come!

The Mother of All Shows What a ride! We are successfully wrapping the shooting of TheMOAS this week! I am so pleased to be part of this magical musical feature film written by Melissa D'Agostino and David Brock. The three of us have been writing the songs together, I'm finishing recording and mixing and then on to the score soon! The film is a funny, heartwarming and a little.bit.sad.story about a mother/daughter relationship...where the lead (Melissa/daughter) goes into her head to escape into a retro musical wonderland. Wendie Malick is a veteran actor who plays the sharp and witty (yet challenging) mother. The cast is excellent. There's singing, dancing and a whole lot of fun surprises. Stay tuned for more!! https://deadline.com

SOCAN Emerging Composers Lab I am honoured and happy to be selected as one of the participants for the Emerging Screen Composers lab! I’ll be working with director Pascal Plante and the amazing Janal Bechthold, in partnership with the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and Bell Media.

https://www.socanmagazine.ca/news

Marlene is a feature film by Wendy Hill-Tout. Marlene, one of Canada’s most famous stories that created uproar around the world. Check it out at the CIFF (Calgary International Film Festival) October 2020! It features two songs I wrote, Arrow (performed by iSpy) and Counting on the Rain (written/produced by Rebecca Everett & performed by iSpy)

 

 

Bring Your Swing! a short film featuring iSpy at the iconic Cameron House in Toronto. The film is a medley of two original songs by iSpy; Bring Your Swing (written by Rebecca Everett & iSpy) and L'Oiseau Qui Chante (written by Rebecca Everett), directed by Fernando Arrioja and produced by Josh Clapp. Members of iSpy (Rebecca Everett, Dan Mock, Tak Arikushi, Chris Kettlewell, Kyle Sullivan).

Bella Wild a comedy by Jim Allodi features my swampy rocknroll song Seven Shades, from the namesake album, Seven Shades by Rebecca Everett & the Dead Ringers

 

Christmas Mubarak is a Farsi film by Without a Flock, I co-composed the score on along with Spencer Creaghan. The World Premiere is coming up at 9pm July 26, 27th. Catch it on FCC.FILM/Watch-Nook!

Have You Seen Katy Keene?

A song I co-wrote, Run Away With Me is featured on Katy Keene, a Riverdale spinoff by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Riverdale, Sabrina, Glee, Supergirl) & Michael Grassi (Riverdale, Supergirl, Lost Girl, Degrassi, Schitts Creek). She is America’s Queen of pin-up and fashion from the Archie comics and which is right up my alley! It's airing on CW. I have to make note that I also have songs on Michael Grassi's shows Lost Girl and Degrassi...starting to feel like part of the family :)

 

I'm happy to say that a song I wrote called Arrow and performed with my band iSpy is in a weird and wonderful film by Director Chris Ross of Dark Pale Pics, called The Problem With Lady Werewolves is playing at 2 festivals Hexploitation Film Fest and Deep Cut Film Fest. Nice way to kick off 2020!

 

More news for Christmas Green the short I composed for Without a Flock and directed by Clare Altima; it made it into the Edmonton Film Festival 2019, an Academy Awards qualifying festival for the Oscars! 

 

Yay team Without a Flock! The film I co-composed on Soft Spotwon Best Canadian Short at the Inside Out LGBTQ Festival 2019. Soft Spot also made it into the North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2019!

If you've been following some of the films I've been composing on, Samanthology made it into Jelly Film Fest 2019

http://www.withoutaflock.com/shorts.html

More great news for Christmas Green, it's in the Canadian Film Festival 2019!

Great news! Christmas Green, a film I just composed on is in the Austin Film Fest this year. A beautiful two-hander short about loneliness, friendship and Weed, with Canada's own Sheila McCarthy and Alan Catlin, written and directed by Clara Altima and produced by Without a Flock

Christmas Green is one film in an Anthology of Christmas films I composed on for Without a Flock. Full release date TBA 2019

 

A new feature film by Alex Kaju, called We Came Here to Wreck Everything will be featuring a piece I wrote. Release date TBA

The Blyth Theatre Festival presents Judith - The Story of a Lady Pig Farmer. I'll be hanging out doing Sound Design in Blyth, ON this June 2018 for this ambitious and exciting new theatre show. 1st time writer and accomplished director Heather Davies and Canadian rocker, Murray Foster from Great Big Sea and Moxy Fruvous have written some country-folk tunes for the show

https://blythfestival.com/judith-memories-of-a-lady-pig-farmer-june-27-august-11-2018/

​I just finished composing on an anthology by Without a Flock media called Samanthology, it is a culmination of 9 short films co-composed by a group of five composers; Rebecca Everett, Spencer Creaghan, Neil Haverty, Aimee Bessada & Chris Reineck and blended together to create a feature film

http://www.withoutaflock.com/samanthology.html

I'm proud to be a part of and composed for Blackout Media's UR Enough campaignThe UR Enough campaign shares the personal truths of fifteen individuals in Toronto from different age groups, backgrounds, experiences and opinions. Speaking their truths on mental wellness, vulnerability, and self-love, their stories and struggles share a common theme. The campaign was launched this Valentines Day, 2018

https://vimeo.com/255723380

Just finished a song for CBC series, How to Buy a Baby

https://watch.cbc.ca/how-to-buy-a-baby/season-1/episode-8/38e815a-00d4265af29

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