Caitlin Yeo is a multi award winning Australian screen composer with over 80 film and TV credits. She is well known for her bold and inventive scores including Every Little Thing (Sundance 2024), After The Party (TVNZ, ABC, UK Channel4), Bad Behaviour (Berlinale 2023), New Gold Mountain (SBS), Playing with Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story (Disney+), David Stratton: A Cinematic Life (Festival de Cannes 2017, ABC), The Rocket (Tribeca winner 2013), and Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (Sydney Festival 2019).

 

Caitlin has won three AACTA awards (New Gold Mountain, Playing with Sharks, and The Dark Emu Story), 8 APRA AGSC Screen Music awards (including best feature twice for The Rocket (2013) and The Butterfly Tree (2017), 2 Film Critics Circle Awards, amongst many others.

 

Caitlin’s music is often described as captivating, intuitive and emotional. She was the 2022 recipient of the prestigious Sydney UNESCO City of Film Award (an award that recognises a trailblazing screen practitioner whose work stands for innovation, imagination, and high impact), and the 2023 Australian Women’s Film Festival Groundbreaker Award. Both awards are a great honour for Caitlin as she is the only composer to have received them.

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Danger Close

“….Along with this comes Caitlin Yeo haunting musical score, which might be the first original score to really capture my interest so far this year. It uses a lot of choral music which gives it an almost angelic feel, which is in harsh juxtaposition with what is going on.”

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Playing With Sharks

“ For fans of Jaws, this will be the meatiest part of Aitken’s fast-moving doc, which benefits from composer Caitlyn Yeo’s unusually dynamic scoring for a nonfiction feature.”
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BAD BEHAVIOUR

“Shot in Victoria’s Macedon Ranges, the natural landscape creates an air of oppression, intensified by Caitlin Yeo’s haunting score.”The Guardian - READ MORE