Catherine Joy

With a passion for music and collaboration, Catherine Joy is a composer for film, media and live performance. Early in her career she won Best Documentary Score for the uplifting feature documentary Gold Balls. Catherine then scored the documentary Naughty Books (Hulu) which features narration by Aisha Tyler, Allison Tolman and Aimee Garcia, and resulted in an ASCAP Composers Choice Award nomination. Her narrative feature, Potato Dreams Of America had its world premiere at SXSW 2021. She also scored the documentary Prognosis: Notes on Living about the final journey of Oscar-winning social justice filmmaker Debra Chasnoff.

More recently she scored the award-winning doc animation series There’s No ‘I’ In Island (Screen Australia). She was also awarded the New Music USA Reel Change grant for her score for documentary Women In The Front Seat (Amazon Prime), directed by Indy Saini. In 2022 she scored a number of Romantic Comedies for Reel One Entertainment including Love Gala, Luckless in Love and Romantic Rewrite and the thriller Twisted Sister for Sunshine Films. Her latest feature, the Sundance Humanities Sustainability Fellowship recipient Home Is A Hotel won both the Jury and Audience award when it premiered at SFIFF in April 2023. Catherine is the founder and CEO of Joy Music House, a full service score production company. She also teaches film scoring for the NYU Steinhardt Masters program.