Austin Ray grew up on the Californian/Mexican border. A film composer and co-director, she has scored commercials for BMW, United Nations, Jo Loves (Jo Malone, CBE), etc. Her original music can be heard in “Into the Silent Sea” (dir. Andrej Landin, 2013) and “Chiaroscuro” (dir. Daniel Drummond, 2014), which have gone on to win a Student Academy Award, premiere at Telluride Film Festival, Palm Spring Int’l Short Festival, and win the BAFTA Student Film Award. In the documentary realm, she has composed shorts starring NBA basketball star Blake Griffith for Players’ Tribune, along with Island Earth, a feature documentary on the issue of GMO’s and pesticides. Her co-directorial debut, “The Listening Box”, which she additionally composed, was honored by the Directors Guild of America at the 21st Annual DGA Student Film Awards and was a Semi-Finalist at the Student Academy Awards, along with screening at the Austin Film Festival [Audience Award Winner] and Savannah Film Festival [HBO Best Student Short Winner]. In 2019, she received the Kinsale Shark Award for Best New Music Composer and has been selected for the 2020-2021 SCL Mentor Program. She is a member of AWFC and SCL. In late 2022, her debut instrumental Artist EP "Minerals" released, inspired by the natural landscapes and elements that ground us and influenced by artists like Ólafur Arnalds, Ludovico Einaudi, Enya, and Hania Rani. In 2025, her original sound pack with Splice was accompanied by an instrumental, neo-country album Salton Sea: Ambient Americana, exploring piano, pedal steel, and her desert upbringing.