Damon Stout

Twice local Emmy® Award recipient Damon Stout is a Scholarship Alum of the Berklee College Of Music in Boston. After formal training in composition and arranging, Damon attended UCLA for the Film Scoring program. His multi-instrument talent and years of performing aided in his success freelancing for The Coca-Cola Company as Damon wrote and produced over 50 commercial jingles for Coca-Cola and other clients for TV and radio, in national and international markets. He has scored numerous feature films and television programs ranging from conducting a 65-piece orchestra to performing the score on an array of samplers. He won an Ohio Valley Chapter Emmy® for his original music in The Golem (2000). Damon's foray into writing and directing started with receiving a Los Angeles Local Emmy® Award for his Sci-Fi short, Nomad, Roe (2000). He continued by writing and directing TV commercials for Harley-Davidson, Coca-Cola, Pizza Hut, KFC, and Pepsi, then segued to his first feature film, Bulldog (2002). Hired to direct and produce a feature length documentary, Higher Ground: Voices of Contemporary Gospel Music (2004), via Image Entertainment soon followed. Acquiring semi-finalist status for Amazon Studios, an animatic for the script Don't Say Anything (2011) was produced. The Sci-Fi drama short film, The Time We're In (2015) has screened at The Boston Sci-Fi Fest, Cannes Film Festival Court Métrage, and the Palm Springs International ShortFest Film Market, and will be distributed via the ShortsHD network in 2016. Throughout these varied projects, Damon has advanced his film production skills to include cinematography, editing, color correction and post-production sound. Damon is also the founder/lead of the LA-based indie rock group, "The Diviners" (2009 winners of best song and best video via OurStage.com) and in 2011 co-founded the group "Celtic Pink Floyd".