Natale Music Inc. was founded in 1981. Since then, Lou has garnered a Genie Award for Best Song, nominations for six Gemini Awards, 1 Canadian Screen Award, the Ontario Arts Council 2014 Louis Applebaum Composers Award, and has scored many other award winning shows, including Atlantis Films’ Oscar winner Boys and Girls (1984) and the classic A Child’s Christmas in Wales.
Lou’s other credits include the Canadian series Traders, Blue Murder, and PSI Factor, the U.S. series Mutant X, Playmakers and Tilt, as well as many movies of the week and features, including Eugene Levy’s Sodbusters, the CBS thriller Adrift (Christian DuGuay, Director), The Bruce Curtis Story:Journey Into Darkness for NBC and ESPN’s Hustle: The Pete Rose Story directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Lou composed the score for CTV’s The Horses of McBride (directed by veteran Anne Wheeler) in 2012.