Shani Drake is an American actress, singer-songwriter and filmmaker. Recent roles include Alex in the horror feature Mermaid Down (2018), Evelyn in Avery Road (2017), and Tin in Marathon Bout (2017). Shani attended film school in Seattle where she studied acting, writing, and directing for the camera. In 2015 she moved to Los Angeles. Landline, a surreal short, is her directorial debut. She is currently co-producing Star Kids (in-development) and IronHeart.
When she's not making movies, Shani is performing, writing songs, and making videos for Youtube. Vocalist and multi instrumentalist, she plays piano, guitar and violin. Her voice and style have been described as peaceful and atmospheric, and her songs often incorporate her love for science and outerspace.
You can listen to and download Shani's music at
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Luna Independent ⋄ Romance ⋄ Drama A young girl, tormented by thoughts of suicide, tries to live a normal life as an actress in LA.
Star Kids: Pilot Independent ⋄ Sci-fi ⋄ Fantasy Four kids with special abilities must save the world from destruction.
Entropy
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Film
(Short, Drama and Sci-Fi)
Actress In December of 2023, a migrant worker goes home for the first time in a month to discover that his pregnant wife has just had a vividly violent dream. In an effort to secure her comfort, he comes to learn that it's the repressed memories of the events following the dream that could unveil an incomprehensible truth. Written by Dimitri Voutsinos
Star Kids
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Television
(Adventure, Fantasy and Sci-Fi)
Actress Dr. Trueheart runs a center for kids with extraordinary abilities, at least that's how she sees it. Whether the tests she's doing are legal or not is the least of her concerns. When she comes close to securing funding to continue her unorthodox research, the kids suddenly turn up missing.
Avery Road
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Film
(Short and Drama)
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A Night to Remember
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Film
(Short and Comedy)
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Marathon Bout
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Film
(Short, Crime, Drama and Romance)
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Ironheart: It Starts with a Spark
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Film
(Short and Sci-Fi)
Producer Riri Williams is a 15-year-old engineering student who started attending M.I.T. on scholarship. Using material stolen from campus Riri designs a suit of armor similar to that of a famous Avenger.
Longing
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Film
(Short and Drama)
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Chloe is trying anything and everything to light a spark under her relationship of three years. Can a mysterious stranger make her question what her wants and needs are? What will it take for her to see a different future for herself and will she make the right decision? Written by Dimitri Voutsinos
Dot Dot Dot
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Film
(Short and Drama)
Actress When a woman finds herself waiting for a date for several hours, she finds herself confronting many questions of honesty, modern relationships, and self-worth.
Batman Beyond
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Television
(Action)
Actress Twenty years after Bruce Wayne has decided to retire the Batman persona, Gotham City is now a futuristic megalopolis furnished with new, dangerous technology and villains to match. Terry McGinnis continues the battle against crime as BATMAN, tutored by Bruce, and aided by a new high-tech Batsuit that augments his abilities, fires batarangs from the wrists, flies, and provides camouflage abilities. This Batman of 2040 comes to have his own rogues gallery, such as the seductive shapeshifter Inque and The Jokerz, a gang idolizing the Joker. Written by Anonymous
Then What Happened?
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Television
(Comedy)
Camera and Electrical Department Three former college acquaintances, one black and gay, a smart ass from Serbia and an All-American golden boy, find themselves living together in Los Angeles, ten years after graduation.
Age of the Empire: A Star Wars Story
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Film
(Short and Sci-Fi)
Miscellaneous Crew In the aftermath of Order 66, three pilots come across a struggle between The Force and The Dark Side as a Jedi prepares for battle.
Mermaid Down
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Film
(Horror)
Actress A mermaid is ripped from the Pacific, her tail is chopped off and she's thrown into a mental home where no one believes she is a mermaid.
Between Us
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Film
(Comedy, Drama and Romance)
Actress Thirlby and Feldman play a couple confronted by the fear that settling down and getting married means their carefree days as city-dwelling young adults coming to an abrupt and depressing end. Both are tempted by the allure of another life before ultimately realizing why they fell in love in the first place.
Boomer Hogs
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Film
(Short and Drama)
Actress Ivan Boomer's reunites with he parolee son at a diner where officer Hal Stolz investigates waitress Roe, who looks a lot like Ivan's vanished daughter from a 30yr-old cold case. Roe looks for her absentee father but connects with the wrong man.
Pete Yorn: Lost Weekend
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Film
(Short and Music)
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Waste Not Die Not
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Film
(Short and Horror)
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Landline
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Film
(Short, Drama and Sci-Fi)
Director The last girl in an otherwise empty town has recurring dreams of a man she may have known once.
Code Black
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Television
(Drama)
Actress This show is based on the award-winning documentary of the same name. This medical drama follows the staff in an extremely busy emergency room as they cope with a staggering amount of patients, which oftentimes outweighs the hospital's resources, resulting in a code black.
The Shift Rising
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Film
(Short, Action, Drama and Thriller)
Actress Society is undergoing great changes.
Heartfelt
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Film
(Short and Comedy)
Actress Joey wanted to be a puppeteer all her life, but the terror of the post-college world got in the way. Just when she's about to turn away from it forever, some key figures from her past return to change her mind.
Justice for All with Judge Cristina Perez
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Television
(Talk-Show)
Actress Real cases that are re-enacted by actors with scripts
Dark Dungeons
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Video
(Short, Drama, Fantasy and Horror)
Actress Two college students are seduced into the evil cult of role playing games.
Star Kids: The Beginning
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Film
(Short, Family and Sci-Fi)
Actress Star Kids:The Beginning is a short film compilation of the first two episodes of the Star Kids film series. Star Kids is a sci-fi/fantasy children's film about four extraordinary kids who must discover who they are in order to save the world from ultimate destruction. With the help of a few special powers, many challenges and friends along the way, the children undergo individual transformations that empower them on their journey to save the world! Written by William Spiritdancer
Girls on Drugs
Film
(Short and Drama)
Actress Mya, a poetic teenager whose struggling with the death of her brother somehow finds herself being persuaded to attend a ditch party by two of the most popular girls in school.
Truck'd Up
Film
(Comedy)
Actress A rag tag group of misfits try to get a food truck up and running but they need a budding chef with an out-of-the box menu concept to help beat their competitors. Business isn't easy with an annoying adversary out to ruin them.
Shoreline Community College
(2014-2014)