Renowned Composer Jongnic Bontemps, Who Scored “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” Headlines MGA’s 2024 Arts Festival

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Modern film composer Jongnic Bontemps, also known as JB, headlines the 2024 Arts Festival, hosted by Middle Georgia State University’s School of Arts & Letters and scheduled for March 25-April 15. This year’s festival, the theme of which is “Reel People,” celebrates the filmmakers, composers, creators, and stories that defy the historical homogeneity of Hollywood.

Paramount Pictures tapped Bontemps to score the blockbuster, sci-fi action movie Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. He will screen the film and discuss his score at 6 p.m. Monday, April 8, in the Arts Complex Theater on MGA’s Macon Campus. Like all Arts Festival events, the screening is free and open to the public.

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