Shamira Raphaela

Biography

Shamira Raphaëla (1982) is a director from a mixed Dutch-Caribbean heritage. After completing her high school in Aruba she moved to the Netherlands where she received her Bachelor degree in Media- Arts at the Artez Fine Art Academy in 2006. Over the years Shamira has worked as a freelance director on a variety of tv-programs, for different broadcasters. Shamira’s debut documentary ‘Deal With It’ is a very personal film about destructive family patterns and unconditional love, came out in 2014. Her next documentary was aimed at children; ‘Lenno & The Angelfish’ tells the story of a boy with behavioural issues, living on the edge. The film won the award for best Children’s Documentary at IDFA 2017 and the Best European Children’s Doc Award from the European Children’s Film Association in 2019.She is currently in the postproduction fase of documentary about Right-Wing Nationalism in the Netherlands and recently won the Karin de Bok Talent award for further development of her new, again very personal, film ‘Downfall of a Superwoman’.