Janal Bechthold is a Canadian composer for film, television, and interactive media most known for creating scores for independent films such as psychological thriller "Art of Obsession", "Martin's Hagge" written by Gordon Pinsent and starring Sheila McCarthy, and video game "The Rival Books of Aster". Recently, Janal composed the music for the new Canadian web-series Begin Again the Series. She is also known as an advocate for women and female-identifying screen composers in Canada.[1]