Oscar Pan is a 2× HMMA-nominated, award-winning composer, as well as a filmmaker and music educator. Inspired by travel and the arts, he is drawn to nature, cross-cultural collaboration, and new sounds that speak to our living world and shared humanity.

His recent works include the score for Cindy Tran: From Here to Here (2025), a PBS documentary following a Vietnamese-American poet and social activist that premiered at DOC NYC; Please Return Your Cart (2025), a romantic comedy developed through Issa Rae’s Find Your People Program (FYPP) that premiered at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival; Cut Your Wings and Fly (2024), an experimental dance film confronting child abuse; Motherland (2023), a Chinese gay coming-out short that premiered at the Cleveland International Film Festival; I Am Illegal (2023), a Moroccan queer documentary that premiered at Outfest LA; and Sonnet Crown for NYC (2021), a poetry documentary commissioned by OPEN CALL: The Shed.

He has also worked alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Michael Abels, contributing additional music to The Acolyte (Disney+). Currently, Oscar is scoring the upcoming documentary Cirrus and wrapping up his directorial debut, For Mrs. Cheng - a deeply personal family documentary exploring the cultural and generational divide between a gay son and his Chinese mother.

Oscar earned his BM in Music Composition with a specialization in Screen Scoring from New York University in 2021 and his MFA from Columbia College Chicago in 2023. In 2019, he studied composition in Paris under Michel Merlet at L’École Normale de Musique de Paris and electroacoustic music with Max/MSP at IRCAM. He was selected for the SCL Mentorship Program in Los Angeles (2023-24) and is one of four composer fellows chosen for Issa Rae’s Find Your People Program (2024-25).

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