---
name: "Kathryn Bostic"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kathryn-bostic"
fi1m_id: "kathryn-bostic"
imdb_id: "nm0098224"
tmdb_id: 1066327
wikidata_id: "Q47523442"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T01:14:43.312965+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Kathryn Bostic

## Identity

Kathryn Bostic

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kathryn-bostic
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kathryn-bostic
- **IMDb ID:** nm0098224
- **TMDB ID:** 1066327
- **Wikidata ID:** Q47523442
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Bostic, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47523442, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0098224/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1066327

Producer. Born 1 January 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 2000
- **Active:** 2007–2019
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 producing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 31 (1), 2010s 81 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Bostic, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47523442, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0098224/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1066327

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Clemency*](https://film.one/film/clemency.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Kathryn Bostic is a composer, songwriter, pianist and vocalist whose work spans film, television, theatre and concert music. She composed the score for the 2019 feature film *Clemency*, directed by Chinonye Chukwu, and also wrote and performed the song 'Slow Train' for the film; she served as an executive producer on the project.

Bostic scored the documentaries *Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am* (2019) and *Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir* (2021), as well as feature films including *Dear White People* (2014) and *Holiday Rush* (2019). Her theatre credits include scores for several August Wilson plays, and she has received commissions from orchestras such as the Pittsburgh Symphony. In 2016 she became the first African American woman admitted to the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She has received Sundance fellowships, a Hollywood Music in Media Award and an African American Film Critics Association award for best music, and has been nominated for Primetime Emmys.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, composer.spitfireaudio.com, blackgirlnerds.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *Norbit* (2007), Fi1m 31, as Choir Member — [page](https://film.one/film/norbit.md)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *Clemency* (2019), Fi1m 81, Original Music Composer, Executive Producer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/clemency.md)

## Complete filmography (37)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *Sarah's Oil* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *She Runs the World* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *The Cost of Inheritance* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *LIFT* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *The League* (2023), Music
- *How to Rig an Election: The Racist History of the 1876 Presidential Contest* (2023), Music
- *Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power* (2022), Music
- *The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands* (2022), Music
- *Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *$avvy* (2021), Music
- *Black Art: In the Absence of Light* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Vinyl Nation* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Clemency* (2019), Original Music Composer, Executive Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/clemency.md)
- *Holiday Rush* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Screenagers Next Chapter: Addressing Youth Mental Health in the Digital Age* (2019), Sound
- *Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *The Green Book: Guide to Freedom* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Bias* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Wrestling Ghosts* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *The Groveland Four* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Purple Dreams* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge and Michel'le* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Equal Means Equal* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *In a Perfect World* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Little White Lie* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *Dear White People* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *Middle of Nowhere* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *I Will Follow* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *Norbit* (2007), as Choir Member — Fi1m 31, [page](https://film.one/film/norbit.md)
- *Brothers and Sisters* (2006), series, as Pianist
- *A Place of Our Own* (2004), Original Music Composer

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