Kareem Roustom is an award-winning composer who has composed music for film, television, the concert hall and album projects. Steeped in the musical traditions of the Arab Near East and trained in Western music, Roustom is a musically bi-lingual composer who has collaborated with a wide variety of artists ranging from the Philadelphia Orchestra to Shakira. An active composer of film music, he has scored a number of short and feature-length films, and his score for the award-winning documentary Encounter Point earned him the  Best Musical Score Award at the 2006 Bend International Film Festival. Of his recent score for Amreeka, which premiered at the  2009 Sundance Film Festival, the Hollywood Reporter wrote "Kareem Roustom's Middle Eastern-flavored score contributes greatly." Amreeka recently won the International Critic's Award at the Director's Fortnight during the  2009 Cannes Film Festival  and has been nominated for 3 Spirit Awards. For his score to Budrus Variety Magazine wrote "A strong string, wind and percussion score by Kareem Roustom adds to the momentum and underlines key moments."