Shiphrah Meditz

Shiphrah Meditz has been involved with the film industry since graduating high-school in '09, having written spec scripts for the Nigerian Television Authority, creating a musical adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel, "The Picture of Dorian Grey". Her interest in directing began in August '11 with the short films, 'Leah's Choice' and 'Where Snakes Roam,' which she produced and directed in Auckland, New Zealand and Austin, Texas. She also directed the music video, 'Musicophilia,' which has been used to bring awareness to the '11 wildfire devastation in Bastrop, Texas. In '12, Shiphrah began work producing and directing her debut feature film, 'The Dying Eye,' in Edinburgh Scotland. The film finished production in February '13 and post production in December '13. The production team, led by Shiphrah, advertised 'The Dying Eye' at the 66th Annual Festival de Cannes. Since then,'The Dying Eye' has been nominated for the awards 'Best Horror/Thriller' and 'Best Director' and screened at the Southampton International Film Festival. In addition to film-making, Shiphrah was invited to judge the Girls Impact the World Film Festival at Harvard University in '14. She has also served as a first round judge for the Screenwriting Competition at the Austin Film Festival in and assisted in several other film festivals in New Zealand and Texas. Apart from her film experience, Shiphrah was an internationally competitive pianist until '09, with performances in such venues as the prestigious Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington D.C., and master classes in Northern Italy, '09. She has also won several awards at the Bradshaw & Buono Piano Competition at Carnegie Hall, New York. Shiphrah graduated with a 3.9/4.0 GPA at the University of Auckland, holding double degrees English Literature and Social Anthropology. She has studied in an Honors Exchange on the scholarship, Abroad Universitas 21 Award '12, at the University of Edinburgh from '12-13.