Myrakel Baker is a filmmaker, screenwriter, director, and multidisciplinary artist who tells stories the way memory feels—layered, tender, and always shifting. Her work lives somewhere between narrative and experimental, between the personal and the political, following the quiet threads of lineage, ritual, and everyday magic.

She was born and raised in Houston, Texas, growing up with humble beginnings and a big imagination. Long before she ever touched a camera, she was the little girl sitting inches from the TV screen, soaking up color and sound like sunlight. Filmmakers like Wes Anderson and artists like Selena and Beyoncé showed her what it looked like to build a world from scratch—what it meant to take a dream seriously. That spark stayed with her. And piece by piece, film by film, she’s been scripting her own dream into existence ever since.

Myrakel’s debut feature, Bayou Dreams, is shaped by the textures of the South—the humidity, the history, the hauntings, and the healing. Told in nonlinear waves, it explores motherhood, loss, and the possibility of returning to oneself through ancestral memory. Her approach to filmmaking is intimate yet expansive, always blurring boundaries, always asking what it means to tell the truth through images.

As a working artist, she creates for the girl she used to be—the one in Houston who felt everything deeply and wanted to express it in whatever form she could. She creates for anyone who has ever felt that spark and dared to follow it, even when the path wasn’t clear.

Her films are visual love notes, small rebellions, and invitations to slow down and feel. In her world, storytelling is a ritual. Preservation is resistance. And art is a way of remembering who we are and where we come from.