---
name: "Maya Shenfeld"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/maya-shenfeld"
fi1m_id: "maya-shenfeld"
imdb_id: "nm14177677"
tmdb_id: 5648198
roles: ["Composer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T04:00:14.238977+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Maya Shenfeld

## Identity

Maya Shenfeld

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/maya-shenfeld
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** maya-shenfeld
- **IMDb ID:** nm14177677
- **TMDB ID:** 5648198
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14177677/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5648198

Composer. Born in Jerusalem.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14177677/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5648198

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Cover-Up*](https://film.one/film/cover-up.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Maya Shenfeld is a composer based in Berlin. Born in Jerusalem, she studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and the Berlin University of the Arts, earning an M.A. in classical guitar and contemporary music composition.

She has composed scores for films and shorts including the Netflix documentary *Cover-Up* (2025), directed by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, as well as *The Flagmakers* (2022) and *Piazza Futura (Postcard from the Future)* (2022). Shenfeld released the albums *In Free Fall* (2022) and *Under the Sun* (2024) on Thrill Jockey Records. Her score for *Cover-Up* was nominated for Best Original Music Score at the Cinema Eye Honors.

*Sources: allmusic.com, imdb.com, mayashenfeld.bandcamp.com, filmmusicreporter.com, custommademusicmag.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cover-Up* (2025), Fi1m 80, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/cover-up.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Cover-Up* (2025), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/cover-up.md)
- *Afterlives* (2025), Music
- *Forever*, Music

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