Biography

Shawna Brakefield-Haase (Producer/Director), President of The Brakefield Company, is a two-time Sports Emmy Award® winner and three-time Emmy Award® nominated documentary producer. Her most recent project Super League: The War for Football, premiered on Apple TV+ and garned the 2024 Sports Emmy for Outstanding Documentary Series. She served as Supervising Producer on the four-part docuseries, which follows the rise and fall of a breakaway European soccer competition from the perspective of key decision makers through unprecedented access to league insiders.

Additional film credits include Emmy Award®-nominated A La Calle (HBO Max) and Emmy Award®-winner Momentum Generation (HBO Sports), a 2018 Tribeca Film Festival audience award runner-up; Nossa Chape (Fox Sports), which premiered at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival; and Give Us This Day (AT&T Audience), which also premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. She served as Consulting Producer on "Phenoms," six-episodic specials airing on Fox Sports and Girls Can't Surf, a feature documentary on pioneering female surfers from the 80's and 90's and their four-decade fight for equal pay.

Brakefield-Haase was the recipient of the prestigious 2019 FOCAL Award for Best Use of Footage in a Sports Production for Momentum Generation. She was also the Archival Producer on The Super Bowl That Wasn't for NFL Network and The Three Knockdown Rule: Hit Like A Girl for ESPN+.

Among the projects in development at The Brakefield Company is the feature documentary White Water about two-time Olympian, four-time world champion kayaker Eric Jackson, to be produced and directed by Brakefield-Haase.
- IMDb mini biography by: The Brakefield Company