---
name: "Nathan Halpern"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nathan-halpern"
fi1m_id: "nathan-halpern"
imdb_id: "nm4388506"
tmdb_id: 1000854
wikidata_id: "Q116506431"
roles: ["Composer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T03:31:56.771998+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."
---

# Nathan Halpern

## Identity

Nathan Halpern

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nathan-halpern
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nathan-halpern
- **IMDb ID:** nm4388506
- **TMDB ID:** 1000854
- **Wikidata ID:** Q116506431
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116506431, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4388506/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1000854

Composer.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116506431, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4388506/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1000854

## Biography

Nathan Halpern is a composer whose work spans narrative features, documentaries and short films. His credits include the scores for *The Rider* (2018), *Minding the Gap* (2018), *Swallow* (2020), *Emily the Criminal* (2022), *Watcher* (2022), *Will & Harper* (2024) and *Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!* (2026).

Halpern’s first film score was for the Emmy- and Peabody-winning documentary *Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present* (2012). He has received Emmy and Hollywood Music in Media Award nominations, and films he has scored have premiered at Sundance, Cannes, Venice and other festivals, with several appearing on Barack Obama’s annual lists of favourite films.

*Sources: filmmusic.com, imdb.com, ascap.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!* (2026), Fi1m 74, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/ha-chan-shake-your-booty.md)

## Complete filmography (52)

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

- *Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!* (2026), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/ha-chan-shake-your-booty.md)
- *Playing POTUS* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *A Deadly American Marriage* (2025), Music
- *Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act* (2025), Music
- *The American Vice President: Rethinking a Political Afterthought* (2024), Music
- *Will & Harper* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Sister Úna Lived a Good Death* (2024), Music
- *Coup!* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Blackwater Lane* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Camp Courage* (2023), Music
- *PLAN C* (2023), Music
- *Impossible Town* (2023), Music
- *Consecration* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *Emily the Criminal* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Watcher* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Catch the Fair One* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *The Martha Mitchell Effect* (2022), Music
- *Down with the King* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *In the Same Breath* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *The Antidote* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Medicating Normal* (2020), Music
- *The Vote* (2020), series, Original Music Composer
- *Face Your Fears: Thriller Shorts for Adults* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Transhood* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Father Soldier Son* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Finding Yingying* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Goldie* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Swallow* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *One Child Nation* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Out of Many, One* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *The Circus* (2018), series, Original Music Composer
- *Minding the Gap* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Night Comes On* (2018), Additional Music
- *Call Her Ganda* (2018), Music
- *The Rider* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *One Percent More Humid* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *I Am Another You* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Sticky Notes* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *The Lovers and the Despot* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Abortion: Stories Women Tell* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Hooligan Sparrow* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Out Run* (2016), Music
- *What Was Ours* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Right Footed* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *One & Two* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *The Age of Love* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *Rich Hill* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *Here One Day* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present* (2012), Original Music Composer, Musician, Orchestrator

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