WSA Film Music Days 2025 - Diversity Fires Creative Collaboration

By offering education and mentorship for – and increasing the visibility of – minoritized industry creatives, the Composers Diversity Collective, which will be awarded the 2025 WSA Industry Award, advocates for a more inclusive screen industry. During this panel discussion the collective’s founder Michael Abels and co-presidents Amritha Vaz and Sandro Morales-Santoro will dispel some of the normative assumptions that often underpin these identity-based barriers, for instance about these workers’ limited creative and stylistic range.