Miguel Bezanilla is a composer born in Seville, Spain, and based in Los Angeles. His latest score for Emmy Award-winning director Lorena Luciano’s documentary Nuns vs. The Vatican, a Sundance Institute-supported project, has been selected for festivals including TIFF, DOC NYC, and the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. He also recently scored the short-form documentary Paul’s Portrait, which was selected for Slamdance and Mountainfilm Festival.
He has written additional music for narrative titles including Netflix’s Sirens (2025), for which he received a 2026 ASCAP Screen Music Award; Na Hong-jin’s Hope, an Official Selection of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival; Disney’s Star Wars: The Acolyte (2024); MGM’s Landscape with Invisible Hand, an Official Selection of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival; Jordan Peele’s Nope (2022); Netflix’s Nightbooks (2021); and HBO’s Allen v. Farrow (2021).
His work as a composer is also informed by his background as a violist, which has given him a unique perspective as an orchestral musician. He performed with ensembles including the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under the baton of Daniel Barenboim at venues such as the Royal Albert Hall in London and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, as well as with the Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra.
Miguel is currently writing additional music for two feature films and a documentary. He studied viola and composition at the conservatories of Seville and Córdoba, respectively, and later specialized in Film Scoring at Columbia College Chicago.
