Keegan DeWitt

In 2013, Keegan DeWitt scored the Oscar Award-winning short documentary Inocente and took two films to the Sundance Film Festival, one of which (This Is Martin Bonner) would win the prestigious Audience Award. The second, Life According To Sam will air on HBO in the fall of '13.

Sundance again hosted two brand new films featuring original scores by DeWitt. Listen Up Philip, from director Alex Ross Perry (featuring Jason Schwartzman & Elisabeth Moss) was produced by Sundance Grand Jury-nominee David Lowery and the team behind Ain't Them Bodies Saints in association with Washington Square Films (All Is Lost, Wendy and Lucy, Margin Call). The second is Land Ho! by directors Aaron Katz & Martha Stephens, executive produced by David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Eastbound & Down, All The Real Girls).

DeWitt was raised in Portland, Oregon and attended SUNY Purchase for film direction, before transferring to the Atlantic Theater Company Acting Conservatory where he completed the 2 year professional program. Close friends since high school, DeWitt and filmmaker Aaron Katz have been longtime collaborators, bringing three separate films to SXSW: Cold Weather (IFC), Quiet City and Dance Party USA, the first two would be named as NY Times Critic's Picks.

DeWitt would go on to also score close friend Chad Hartigan's Sundance debut This Is Martin Bonner, after having already scored his first film Luke & Brie Are on a First Date. Along with these films, he has continued to bring scores to SXSW, Sundance, The LA Film Festival and more each year, all while working on a commercial level with Facebook, Merrell, Country Time Lemonade, Amtrak, Dolby, Save The Children and more.

In 2013, two of his scores for acclaimed documentarians Sean Fine and Andrea Nix-Fine released via HBO and MTV respectively. Their collaboration, Life According to Sam premiered as part of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.Keegan is also an established performer in his own right with a lengthy solo career and a LP with his band Wild Cub received acclaim from Spin, Paste, American Songwriter, MTVHive, Wall Street Journal and more.

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