Camila María Bermúdez Ortiz is an award nominated Puerto Rican composer, percussionist/drummer, and filmmaker based in New York City. Her work spans film scores, commercials, music production, beat making and arranging.

She started composing in Puerto Rico, experimenting with scoring her own short films and projects, which led to being asked to score various of her filmmaking colleagues works because of her ties as a musician. This led to her immersion in screen scoring, music composition, and beat making. Since then, Camila has collaborated on eight short films, two of which have earned her nominations for “Best Score” and “Best Composer” in two different film festivals (Festival de Cine Europeo and Venice Shorts Film Festival).

As a percussionist, Camila has been Principal Percussion/Timpani of the Arturo Somohano Puerto Rico Philharmonic, Principal Percussion/Timpani of the Puerto Rico Camerata Philharmonic Orchestra, has worked with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra as a Substitute and Extra, and has served as a soloist for the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music’s Percussion Ensemble and Concert Wind Ensemble. She was also a part of the award winning steel band ensemble Supari Mai, which led her to record Thunder Coming, an album that won them a spot on the 20 Best Musical Productions of 2010 with the likes of Gilberto Santa Rosa, Calle 13, Cultura Profética, Andy Montañez, and many more.

Camila is also an accomplished filmmaker. She has worked on various shorts films, music videos, aside from her own personal projects. She was admitted into a two week internship during the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) with the Hollywood Reporter, working alongside the Photo and Video Team, supporting talent, and assisting producers, photographers and videographers during the festival. Camila was also accepted into a Filmmaking Program during the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. The program consisted of two production teams who then created, filmed and edited a short film throughout the duration of the festival, which would then premier at the Filmmaker Institute Screening Showcase at the Olympia Theatre, official theatre of the Marché Du Film. Camila worked as the director of photography, composer, and editor for her own team, and functioned as AD for the second team.

She received a double bachelor’s degree in 2019; one in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, and a second one in Classical Percussion Performance from the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music. She went on to receive her master’s in Percussion Performance at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in 2021, where she received two graduate assistantships to study and work with the university. She then was admitted into the Screen Scoring Program at New York University were she received her Master's in June 2024.