Erica Procunier is a Canadian film and television composer.
["Sarnia composer scoring music for famed kid classic"]
''The Sarnia Journal'', October 26, 2021. She is most noted for her work on the 2021 ''
The Nature of Things
''The Nature of Things'' (also, ''The Nature of Things with David Suzuki'') is a Canadian television series of documentary programs. It debuted on CBC Television on 6 November 1960. Many of the programs document nature and the effect that hum ...
'' episode "The COVID Cruise", for which she won the
Canadian Screen Award
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for Best Original Music, Nonfiction at the
10th Canadian Screen Awards
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in 2022, and the television series ''
Ghostwriter
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'', for which she was a
Daytime Emmy Award
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nominee for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for a Daytime Program at the
48th Daytime Emmy Awards
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in 2021.
[
A native of ]Sarnia
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, Ontario
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,[ she is an alumna of the ]Slaight Family Music Lab
The Canadian Film Centre opened the Slaight Family Music Lab in 2013, sponsored by the Slaight Family Foundation.
Every year a small group of promising composers and song-writers are invited to study under a distinguished composer.
The first men ...
at the Canadian Film Centre
The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) is a charitable organization founded by filmmaker Norman Jewison in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1988. Originally launched as film school, today it provides training, development and advancement opportunities for pr ...
.[Julianna Cummins]
"Slaight Music Residency Showcase 2014"
''Playback
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Film
* ''Playback'' (1962 film), a British film in the ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'' series
* ''Playback'', a 1996 film starring Shannon Whirry
* ''Playback'' (2012 film), an American horror film by Michael A. N ...
'', September 30, 2014.
Her other credits have included the films ''Mariner
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The profession of the s ...
'', '' Dam! The Story of Kit the Beaver'', ''Don't Talk to Irene
''Don't Talk to Irene'' is a 2017 Canadian comedy film written and directed by Pat Mills. It premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.
The film centres on Irene (Michelle McLeod), an overweight and unpopular high school student ...
'' and ''The Dancing Dogs of Dombrova
''The Dancing Dogs of Dombrova'' is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Zack Bernbaum and released in 2018.Julie Crawford, "Filmmaker draws on sibling rivalry for storyline". ''North Shore News'', November 23, 2018. The film stars Katherine ...
'', and the television series ''By the Rapids
''By the Rapids'' is Mohawk-language animated television show that originally aired on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) from 2008 to 2012. It was the first Indigenous animated television series in Canada.
The series centers on C ...
'', '' Little Dog'', ''Detention Adventure
''Detention Adventure'' is a Canadian children's web series, which premiered May 3, 2019 on CBC Gem. Created by Carmen Albano and Joe Kicak, the series centres on a group of children who stage elaborate pranks every day at school in the hopes of g ...
'', ''Lockdown
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The term is used for a prison ...
'' and '' Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go''.
References
External links
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21st-century Canadian composers
21st-century Canadian women musicians
Canadian women composers
Canadian film score composers
Canadian television composers
Canadian Screen Award winners
Musicians from Sarnia
Canadian Film Centre alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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