[1] Schapira is co-author of The Act of Alois Brunner, and producer of two award-winning documentaries, Drei Kugeln und ein totes Kind ("Three bullets and a dead child") (2002), about the death of Muhammad al-Durrah in Gaza in 2000, and Der Tag, als Theo van Gogh ermordet wurde ("The day Theo van Gogh was murdered") (2007), about the killing in 2004 of Dutch filmmaker, Theo van Gogh.
[4] Schapira completed her Abitur at the Frankfurt Helmholtzschule in 1982, and went on to study German and English language and literature, as well as theatre, film and television.
She has been the politics and society editor at the German public television network, the Hessischer Rundfunk, since 1995.
She won the first prize twice at the International Festival Law and Society in Moscow, for Drei Kugeln und ein totes Kind and Der Tag, als Theo van Gogh ermordet wurde.
[5][6] In 2007, she won the Buber-Rosenzweig-Medaille with Georg M. Hafner,[7] and a commendation during Prix Europa for the Theo van Gogh documentary.