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It's not just Music - it's a Passion!
Production music is more than a job for us at Sonoton Music. We understand music, but more than that, we understand what it means. We know that our passion for music is part of something bigger.
We know the importance of that final piece of the jigsaw - whether it's discreetly sparkling in the background or boldly driving the scene on. We're on a journey through sounds and songs, and we're bringing this crazy little thing called music home.

Leonard Cortana (France/Guadeloupe) is the Inclusion Program and Strategic Partnerships Manager at EURODOC, coordinating the BIPOC EURODOC taskforce. A PhD candidate in Cinema Studies focusing on the transnational circulation of social justice films at NYU. Leonard directed the short documentary Marielle's Legacy Will Not Die (2019) & contributed to social impact campaigns for films like Murder in Paris (South Africa) and Sementes (Brazil). He has served as a consultant for the UN’s Anti-Racial Discrimination Section and organized discussions for advocacy films globally. Leonard organized post-screening discussions and participated in various social impact campaigns worldwide for advocacy films. He led a session at the 2024 Cannes Doc Edition on Post-Screening Q&As:Leading Ethical Interactions to Boost Impactful Conversations.

Julia Teichmann is serving as Head of Documentary at German Films and additionally supervises the Marketing & Subtitling Support. She has worked as a curator and is still working as a moderator, among others for DOK.fest München, the Festival of German Cinema in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg. She was also a film critic for such publications as Berliner Zeitung and Filmdienst, and regularly served on juries at national and international film festivals.