Animation by Samuel Wright Smith
"Ascendancy"
Music and Artistic Direction by Carmen Lustik
CARMEN LUSTIK
CARMEN LUSTIK
Music for Film & Multimedia
The music of imaginative composer and trusted collaborator, Carmen Lustik, deepens narrative and amplifies the emotional impact in creative mediums including films, podcasts, and episodic content.
Having composed underscores for films featured in festivals across the globe, Carmen wrote, recorded and produced the score for Pure (streaming on HBO Max) directed by Natalie Jasmine Harris and starring Mikayla Bartholomew. The film was nominated for the HBO Max Best Narrative Short Film Award at the 2021 Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival and screened at Cannes the same year.
Carmen completed her Bachelor's Degree in Music Theory and Composition for Screen Scoring at New York University (2022) and was recently selected for The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) 2021-2022 New York Mentorship Program. At the end of her sophomore year, Carmen was selected as the Television Academy Foundation’s 2019 Music Intern and spent the summer in Los Angeles aiding writers and engineers at Bear McCreary’s music production studio, Sparks and Shadows.
Pure
a film by Natalie Jasmine Harris
Pure follows 17-year-old Celeste as she prepares for her local cotillion ball while grappling with her sexuality, her performability, and accepting the nuances of her character.
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Featured in The American Pavilion’s 2021 Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at Cannes
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Premier screening took place at The Academy Award Qualifying 2021 Pan African Film Festival
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Nominated for the HBO Max Best Narrative Short Film Award
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Director Natalie Jasmine Harris received the 2020 Directors Guild of America Student Film Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement
Unrestricted access to beaches is a public right in Texas. But for the little-known, magical, and untamed stretch of beach called Boca Chica, that right is curtailed when
SpaceX takes flight.
Boca Chica uncovers the mesmerizing beauty of this fragile coastline and the fight for free access for its longtime visitors whose memories and spirituality are rooted deep among the sandy shorelines.
Co-directed by
Ái Vuong and Samuel Díaz Fernández
Boca Chica
a film by TÁPI Story
Dani and Alexio are both guarded, complex characters
trying to find their place within society. Their paths cross unexpectedly
one night kickstarting a tumultuous odyssey and a dynamic friendship.
The Satchel and the Pink Wig stresses the importance of
the journey over the final destination through the
revival of one man's will to live and one girl's confidence in community.
Written & Directed by Savannah Braswell
BANGS
Ali is an insecure actress looking for her big break and who, in an effort to outdo her arch-nemesis and book a competitive role, makes the awful, rotten, impulsive decision to give herself bangs––the worst bangs in the history of bangs, to be exact.
Written by Zhara Astra
Directed by Sabrina Robinson
LabCast | NYU Production Lab
By the People, For the People: the Vote 2020 Initiative
Podcast episode "By the People for the People: the Vote 2020 Initiative" produced by the NYU Production Lab contains musical contributions from Carmen Lustik and explores the ways in which two NYU Professors worked to strengthen the U.S. democracy during the Fall 2020 elections.
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