Biography

Shaune Bordere JD, BS, is a sustainable energy Chemist & Scientist who has designed the record-setting, world's most powerful ultralightweight biodegradable solid-state battery technology with an energy density of 5+ Gigawatt hours per kilogram. She has also designed a new sustainable and scalable 100-Megawatts per unit to 1-Gigawatt per unit zero emission electrical power generation system that is and non-nuclear. She has been offered billions of dollars of funding by a Global 1000 company for her company SRL Motors Incorporated to manufacture their powerful solid-state batteries and sustainable energy generating systems for their expanding number of major clients. Shaune has set out to launch a New Orleans based airline of commercial electric airplanes equipped with her super powerful ultralightweight solid-state batteries. Shaune is a two-time South Film and Arts Academy Festival (SFAAF) award winning Director, Screenwriter, Producer & Author originally from New Orleans, Louisiana who is of West African, French and German descent. She has written, directed and produced the animated early desegregation drama 'Pivotal Powerful Journey' that she adapted from her 2017 novel 'Action Words: Journey of a Journalist' and a collection of her Grandmother Ora Mae Lewis' (1918-2005) articles and short stories. The movie and novel are based upon the historic triumphs of Ora & US Senator Huey P. Long to fight Jim Crow segregation. 'Pivotal Powerful Journey' tells the remarkable story of the stance taken by Ora against the early Holocaust and her desegregation of the entire City of New Orleans in October 1938 under the leadership of Archbishop Joseph Rummel. Ora was the first person in history to successfully desegregate a major Southern city in the United States of America. Ora was recognized with a US Congressional Proclamation posthumously for her life-long, monumental interracial harmony in the South triumphs. On May 28, 2025, Shaune and her motion picture production company Studio Releasing, LLC received the South Film and Arts Academy Festival (SFAAF) May 2025 Best Experimental Feature Award for 'Pivotal Powerful Journey.' Shaune also received the SFAAF May 2025 Best Female Director of a Feature Award for 'Pivotal Powerful Journey.'

Shaune wrote and directed an adapted video game in 2020 entitled 'Adventures of the Underworld,' championing the cause of ocean conservation. She is the 2021 winner of the CIFA Award for Best Game for this release. Shaune competed for a Nicholl Fellowship Academy Award with the story's screenplay for which she received very positive reviews. She has written 'The Literal Edge,' a major action movie on the environment and world peace. This movie is the first of several planned on the lead extraordinary character Sparrow Olivia Banks. Shaune will also soon direct and produce 'The Literal Edge' with animation. Shaune's major environmental drama TV series 'Powerful' is the first of its kind to juxtapose White House politics with environmental disasters. A leading studio has offered to fund and distribute the series. Shaune earned Official Selection and Finalist recognition from Pinewood Studio's Lift-Off Sessions Global Network as the Writer and Director of her environmental documentary 'Parallel Policy' on May 6, 2020. The film was released theatrically. Shaune executive produced a comedy that was shortlisted twice for Best Original Song and Best Original Score Academy Awards in 2016 as well as a faith based sports drama starring Lynn Whitfield, Clifton Davis and Corbin Bernsen in 2016.

Shaune began writing for television in the Spring of 1999 as a Xavier University of Louisiana Junior. Her writing of each talk show episode of a campus hit was well received by the city's cable access network and the New Orleans community as a whole. Shaune's studies at Xavier followed her attendance at the University of Maryland at College Park as a Maryland Distinguished Scholar and National Achievement Scholar. Shaune earned a Columbia Scholastic Press Association of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism award in 1996 for her coverage of the conflict in Rwanda. She actively volunteered for organizations such as the School for International Training in Ghana, Arthur Ashe, Jr. TransAfrica Forum Library and an African Diaspora organization in Washington, DC. Shaune matriculated into the University of Maryland as a full-time college Freshman Biology major at the age of 16 in 1996. She graduated from Xavier University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology with a Chemistry minor in 2000. Shaune earned her Juris Doctorate from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 2003 as the youngest African American woman to do so.

Through a series of efforts to contribute to several foundations, Shaune began planning, researching and writing a film on Ora M. Lewis for a small National Endowment for The Humanities Grant in 2011 that led to the development of the drama 'Journey of a Journalist.' She announced the movie and her new environmental documentary during the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Marché Du Film. A dedicated Environmentalist, Shaune produced an Earth Day awareness campaign that was aired by Bloomberg Television, Disney XD, ESPN, NFL Network, CNBC, The Tennis Channel and Fox News Channel from April 18th through April 22, 2012, to over one million viewers.