Tiannan Cai is an award-winning film composer, music producer, multi-instrumentalist, and educator, as well as the founder and music director of Movement Music. A graduate of the prestigious USC Screen Scoring program, he began his career as a MIDI orchestrator at Hans Zimmer’s studio, contributing to major Hollywood features including Despicable Me 3, The Angry Birds Movie, and The Nut Job 2. He is a Voting Member of the Recording Academy (GRAMMYs) and a faculty member at the Academy of Art University, where he authored the institution's prominent MIDI Orchestration curriculum.

Renowned for his stylistic versatility and mastery of music technology, Tiannan’s extensive credits span film, television, video games, and concert music. His prominent screen credits include the global franchise Pokémon: The Journey of a Shared Dream, the Jackie Chan-produced feature Amnesia, and the critically acclaimed TV series She and Her Girls (CCTV-1), which swept multiple honors at the 30th Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Awards. His score for Love is Color Blind won Best Original Score at the 2022 Los Angeles Movie Awards, while Mission Quandary earned a nomination at the 39th Montreal World Film Festival.

In the animation realm, Tiannan collaborated with Oscar-nominated director Mike Johnson (Corpse Bride) on Ping-Pong Rabbit and composed the studio opening theme for Coloroom Pictures (the studio behind Ne Zha, the top-grossing Chinese film in history). His animation scores include the Magnolia Award-winning Yao-Chinese Folktales, the Busan International Film Festival nominee LuoYang, and Soul Land, the highest-viewed Chinese animated series in history with over 10 billion views.

As a sought-after composer in the gaming industry, he has crafted soundtracks for DreamWorks Animation’s DreamWorks Most Wanted, Tencent’s Dragon Nest 2, NetEase’s Justice Online, and the hit tactical RPG Reverse: 1999, among others. Beyond screen media, his orchestral works have been performed by the Pacific Symphony, Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra and Xi’an Symphony Orchestra. As a music director, he produced and orchestrated the official World of Warcraft Music Festival for Blizzard Entertainment.

Tiannan conducts and records his works at world-renowned scoring stages, including the Warner Bros. Eastwood Scoring Stage, The Village Studios, and EastWest Studios. He is a registered composer member of ASCAP and his global music catalog is professionally administered and published by Movement Music Collections.