Jongnic Bontemps

Jongnic Bontemps, known as JB, is an American composer and musician who has contributed to over 50 projects in film, television, documentaries, and video games. His work includes the 2016 skateboarding-focused drama *The Land*, which features a soundtrack with collaborations from Erykah Badu and Nas, including the song *"This Bitter Land"*. He also composed music for the 2018 roller skating documentary *United Skates*, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Bontemps is a classically trained composer with roots in church and jazz music as a pianist. Born in Brooklyn to a Jamaican mother and a Haitian father who met in New York in the 1970s, he studied music at Yale University, Berklee College of Music, and the University of Southern California (USC), where he graduated from the Scoring for Motion Picture and Television program. Before focusing on music, he worked as a software developer and startup executive in New York City and Silicon Valley. His work has been featured in award-winning films at festivals such as Cannes, Warsaw International Film Festival, and Pan African Film Festival, as well as on networks like HBO, BET, and Disney. Bontemps was selected as a Sundance Lab Composer Fellow in 2013 and received a Time Warner Artist Fellowship in 2014. His film *Faith Under Fire* premiered on Lifetime in January 2017. His recent projects include the documentaries *Citizen Ashe* (2021) and *My Name is Pauli Murray* (2021), as well as *Transformers: Rise of the Beasts* (2023). He has also contributed to TV series like ...