Draft:Miranda Holschneider Schrade

Miranda Holschneider Schrade (2003-) is a New York City-based director and writer specializing in short films and documentaries. Her artistic trajectory began as a child, when she performed piano in the Sevenars Music Festival. Currently, she is a producer for the film/academia platform Labocine.

Film
At the age of thirteen, her work was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival as part of Downtown Youth Behind the Camera. Since then, she has directed and produced a body of over 35 short films. Holschneider Schrade's films have been featured in film festivals such as the Provincetown Film Festival in 2015 and the Tribeca Film Festival in 2016. She represented New York Film Academy at the Metropolitan Museum's 2015 Teens Take the Met.

In 2016, Holschneider Schrade wrote, directed, and produced the short Flora, with original music by Yale Composers’ Guild founder and Tribeca New Music Emerging Composer Jacob Shaw.

Illustration
Miranda Holschneider Schrade attended the Art Student's League of New York and her work received accolades from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

She has also modeled for New York City celebrity photographers Noah Ford and Melchizedek Gayle.

Early life
Miranda Holschneider Schrade was born in 2003 in New York City. She is the granddaughter of musicology academic and former President of Deutsche Grammophon Andreas Holschneider, and New York City songwriter, matriarch, concert pianist, and entrepreneur Rolande Maxwell Young (who also wrote the Allen-Stevenson school song.)

Holschneider Schrade attended the Chapin School. Later, she also attended the High School of Art and Design and Fashion Institute of Technology.

Notable family
Miranda Holschneider Schrade is the great-niece of writer and architect Johannes Holschneider and former Editor-in-Chief of The European Journal of Pediatric Surgery (and two-time Drachter Prize laureate ) Alexander Holschneider.

She is the niece of University of Potsdam Mathematics Professor Matthias Holschneider, researcher and Professor of Psychiatry at University of Southern California Daniel Holschneider, UCLA Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology Christine Holschneider, finance executive Pascale Vidalie, and economist Jehan Arulpragasam. She is the cousin of contemporary Applied Linguistics and Cross Cultural Studies expert Andrea Cecilia Revilla Santos.