---
name: "Osei Essed"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/osei-essed"
fi1m_id: "osei-essed"
imdb_id: "nm6484225"
tmdb_id: 1518115
roles: ["Composer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-11-01T22:55:20.010556+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."
---

# Osei Essed

## Identity

Osei Essed

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/osei-essed
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** osei-essed
- **IMDb ID:** nm6484225
- **TMDB ID:** 1518115
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6484225/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1518115

Composer.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6484225/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1518115

## Biography

Osei Essed is a composer and musician. He has written original scores for feature films and documentaries including *Crater* (2023), *Farewell Amor* (2020), *Amend: The Fight for America* (2021), *Period. End of Sentence.* (2018) and *Tower* (2016).

Essed is credited as composer on the 2026 documentary *When a Witness Recants*. He previously worked as a songwriter and performer with bands including Big Hands and The Woes before focusing on film and television scoring.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, musicintheberkshires.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *When a Witness Recants* (2026), Fi1m 79, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/when-a-witness-recants.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

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

- *When a Witness Recants* (2026), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/when-a-witness-recants.md)
- *Testing Testing Sandi Bachom* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *Byeeee* (2026), Music
- *Speak.* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Late Bloomers* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *It's Okay* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *A King Like Me* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *Crater* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *Saint X* (2023), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Lincoln Project* (2022), series, Original Music Composer
- *Fragments of Paradise* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Katrina Babies* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *The Visitor* (2022), Music
- *Dear Mr. Brody* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union* (2021), series, Original Music Composer
- *Through the Night* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *And So I Stayed* (2021), Music Score Producer
- *How the Monuments Came Down* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Amend: The Fight for America* (2021), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Big Scary “S” Word* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *In Our Nature* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Farewell Amor* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Accept the Call* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Always in Season* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *A Girl Named C* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Period. End of Sentence.* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Things Break In* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Tower* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Jim: The James Foley Story* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Finders Keepers* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *The Last Season* (2014), Original Music Composer

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