Sheira Rees-Davies
- Producer
- Manager
Hailing from London, Sheira moved to New York at the age of 18 to work in music management. For more than a decade she managed and tour managed various world-renowned artists including Prince, Diana Ross, Meatloaf, Afrika Bambaataa, and The Stranglers. Sheira later booked music and managed the art gallery at Woodies for Ron Wood, from the Rolling Stones, New York club. Moving into the realm of film and advertising, she founded the music division at Anonymous Content, serving as Executive Producer for ten years, and working with incredible directors, such as David Fincher, Mark Romanek, Jonathan Glazer, Jake Nava, Wong Kar Wai, Gore Verbinski, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Wickham, Sanaa Hamri, and many more. Since then, Sheira has further honed her industry acumen at Hello!, A White Label Product, Underground/Uground, and Squeak Pictures, until she joined Scheme Engine in 2014. Over the course of her career, she has worked with musical artists, including Coldplay, Jay-Z, Jack White, and Nine Inch Nails, among others, and won countless awards, including Beyonce's "Single Ladies", won 9 Music Video Awards, including the video of the year and Johnny Cash won a Grammy for the best music video and 7 MTV nominations. She has produced Live Films for Beyonce, Eagles, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Shakira, The Doobie Brothers, Alicia Keys, The Black Eyed Peas, Pentatonix, Above & Beyond, and a 3D documentary for the Montreux Jazz Festival, as well as a tribute to Bob Marley and The Wailers that won a Clio. With Scheme Engine, Sheira has produced several films streamed on Amazon, Netflix, and HBO; and broadcast on PBS and ESPN. Documentaries for Apple Music include artists Kygo, P!nk, H.E.R., Christine and the Queens, 1975, Marc Anthony, Celine Dion, and Raphael Saadiq. In 2021, her film Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase The Blues Away premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Her most recent films, Romeo Santos: King of Bachata and Romeo Santos Utopia Live from MetLife Stadium, are currently airing on HBO Max, and King of Bachata nominated for a Latin Grammy for Best Long Form Video.