Lynn Fainchtein has taken her musical experience to an ample range of mediums, which include film, television, radio, journalism and recording. 

She was the head of programming and news producer for MTV LATAM until 2000. 

As Music Supervisor and Music Producer, she has worked on numerous films and shows for Netflix, HBO, Amazon, Apple, Fox and Star+ among many of the top studios in the world: 

Film:

One of her long-standing contributions has been with the acclaimed Mexican film director Alejandro González Iñárritu on all his films including Bardo (winner of the UNIMED Award at the Venice Film Festival and multiple Ariel Awards), as well as The Revenant (Academy Award for Best Director), Birdman (Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director, among others), Biutiful (nominated for the Academy Award), Babel (BAFTA Award for Best Film Music), 21 Grams and Amores Perros (nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film). 

She supervised Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, which won the Golden Lion on the 75º Venice International Film Festival, and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, winning Best Director, Best Foreign Language Film (first Mexican film to win) and Best Cinematography. On 2022, Alfonso invited Lynn to supervise and create the music for his first television series for Apple TV+ currently entitled Augustus, which will be released in 2024 and will be starred by Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline and Sacha Baron Cohen.

Another director with whom Lynn enjoys working is Lee Daniels. Lynn supervised his latest Academy Award-nominated film, The US vs Billie Holiday, where she also produced and supervised the recording of Billie Holiday’s classics by wonderful Andra Day, but she has also collaborated on his previous films: Precious (nominated for six Academy Awards and winner of the Grand Jury Prize at The Sundance Film Festival), The Paperboy and The Butler. She is currently acting as music counsel for The Deliverance, directed by Daniels.

Lynn regularly collaborates with La Corriente del Golfo, the production company founded by Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, where she has musically supervised Abel, Déficit, J.C. Chávez and Mr. Pig

She has worked in other interesting projects, such as David France’s Academy Award-nominated documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, Patricia Riggen’s The 33, acclaimed Mexican director Luis Estrada’s ¡Que Viva México!, La Dictadura Perfecta and Hell, as well as Jonas Cuaron’s latest film Chupa, released by Netflix in 2023. She supervised the iconic portrait of Walter Salles' from Kerouac´s book On the Road

In 2023, Lynn collaborated in Lost In The Night, Amat Escalante’s new project, produced by Nicolás Celis (Roma, Birds of Passage, Prayers for the Stolen), which was acclaimed in the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.

For 2024, Lynn is currently collaborating in two greatly anticipated productions: the TV series One Hundred Years of Solitude, based on Gabriel García Márquez’ masterpiece, which shall be released on Netflix and produced by Dynamo, and Las Azules, produced by Lemon Studios for Apple TV.

Television:

Lynn has undertaken the music supervision for several Netflix international series, including German series Dark, Tribes of Europe and Kitz; Danish The Rain and Chosen; Spanish Élite, El Vecino, In Love All Over Again Meet Cute and more recently, the acclaimed series La Mesias, directed by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo for Movistar Plus+; Mexican Club de Cuervos, La Casa de las Flores, Control Z, Somos, Monarca and Diego Luna’s Everything Will Be Fine, as well as the popular bioseries El Rey: Vicente Fernandez; American bio-series Selena: The Series; Turkish The Protector; Jordan Jinn; Australian Tidelands; Colombian Green Frontier and Brazilian Coisa Mais Linda

For Amazon, she has supervised Diego Luna’s talk show series Pan y Circo and developed an incredible music atmosphere for season 2 of Chilean series El Presidente. Her latest collaboration for that platform was on Spanish series Sin Huellas

She has supervised HBO’s Emmy Award-winning Sr. Ávila, Gael García Bernal and Kyzza Terrazas’ political thriller Here on Earth for Fox and Star+’ debut series Not My Fault: Mexico

 
 
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Lynn Fainchtein
lynn@musicsupervision.eu

 
 

Federico Martínez
fede@musicsupervision.eu