Music Composed and Produced by Germaine Franco

Tierra Mestiza

Guajira Mexicana

Fiesta Norteña

El Mapa De La Vida

Árbol De La Alegría

Adelante Sin Vacilacíon

Tango De Las Mujeres

No Me Dejes Atras

Marriage Proposal

Margarita Buys A Ticket

OFF TO RIO!
The original Angry Birds have been kidnapped and taken to the magical city of Rio de Janeiro! They’ve managed to escape, but now they must save their friends Blu and Jewel – two rare macaws and the stars of the hit movies, Rio and Rio 2.

Music co-composed by Germaine Franco & Ari Pulkkinen

Angry Birds Rio Samba

Preview of upcoming soundtrack to the film Walk with Me: On the Road with Thich Nhat Hanh

Music co-composed by Germaine Franco & Jonathan Sacks

Antonio's Theme

Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!

Music by John Powell & Germaine Franco & Paco

Adelie Rap

Independent Feature Film. Directed by Cristina Kotz Cornejo. Produced by Wild Wimmin Films. Composed by Germaine Franco. Synopsis: When tragedy strikes, 16 year old, América Campos is sent to Argentina to live with her anti-American grandmother Lucía América. América struggles to find her place with a grandmother she has never known and to hold onto a friendship with Sergio, a neighbor twice her age.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0847204/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

3AM Opening Titles

3AM Cartonero 2

3AM Caja De Memorias

3AM Bike Chase

En Este Momento

Germaine Franco is an accomplished composer, orchestrator, and percussionist working in Hollywood today. Having worked on over forty feature film productions, Franco has extensive expertise in all stages of the music production process. Her body of work includes scoring feature films, documentaries, television, video games, and digital media.  She specializes in combining world music with orchestral film music to create a unique sound.  She holds a Bachelor Degree and Master Degree in Music from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music.

Recently, Germaine scored DOPE, directed by Rick Famuyiwa, produced by Forest Whitaker’s Significant Productions and Pharrell Williams’ iamOTHER Entertainment. Pharrell Williams wrote original songs for the film. The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Open Road and Sony Pictures will distribute the film.  It will be released in North American theaters on June 19, 2015.

Last year, Franco worked with Social Gaming Network’s creative team to compose and produce the music for the new Book of Life: Sugar Smash video game. The game is available at the Apple App Store.  In addition, she wrote additional music with Gustavo Santaolalla for The Book of Life film, released October 17th, 2014 by 20th Century Fox. Franco co-composed, arranged, and produced the original theme music for the popular game Angry Birds Rio for Fox Mobile and Rovio. The game sold more than 50 million copies worldwide.

Germaine’s dynamic score to the award-winning feature film Margarita, directed by Dominique Cardona and Laurie Colbert, received international attention. The film was released theatrically in Canada by Mongrel Films. Margarita, screened at many international film festivals and venues including The British Film Institute, The Palm Springs International Film Festival, The Prague International Film Festival, and The Washington D.C. International Film Festival.  Margarita currently airs on HBO Canada. The original soundtrack is available on iTunes.

Franco worked with film composer John Powell on over thirty-five feature films and international blockbusters, contributing additional music, orchestrations, music programming, arranging, session production, and percussion performance, on a wide range of films from The Italian Job,  Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, Happy Feet, Rio (1 & 2) to How To Train Your Dragon (1 & 2).  She worked with Randy Newman as a music programmer on Toy Story 3 and with Hans Zimmer and John Powell as an overdub music producer on Kung Fu Panda 2.  She completed original Spanish adaptations of songs created by Powell and Chris “Tricky” Stewart for Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax.

In addition to composing, Germaine performs classical, hand, and latin percussion with a variety of artists and ensembles.  Last year, she performed with The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra and Danny Elfman for his spectacular Danny Elfman’s Music From The Films Of Tim Burton Concerts at Nokia Theatre in LA and The Honda Center in Anaheim.  She worked with The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Jack Black, Judith Hill, Hans Zimmer, John Powell,  Harry-Gregson Williams, Rupert Gregson-Williams, and Lorne Balfe for the Dreamworks Animation 20th Anniversary Concert at The Hollywood Bowl. She was a guest artist with Sergio Mendes and Sheila E. at the “2013 New Year’s Eve Celebration” at Disney Hall in Los Angeles.


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