Nyla Smith

Potential Speaking Topics

• How to Survive and thrive as an Indie Film Composer
• Composing with an Artists Perspective
• Empowering directors more meaningful connections w/ composers and what that could mean creatively.
• Creative Collaboration in Storytelling
• How to Imagine Your Creative Career
• De-Westernizing Film Scoring (how directors and composers can find ways to innovate at the scoring Stage)
• Starting from the Bottom
• Active Listening (how to use music listening as a tool for learning)
• Black Creatives Paradox (How to connect with your identity while identifying spaces that are interested in WHO you are and not just WHAT)
• A Songwriters Guide To Film Scoring
• Pop Music for All: Uncovering the tools that make music so moving and accessible and how can we use those tools in media music