Nora Friedel lives and works as an artist and filmmaker in Vienna, Austria. After an education as a photographer, she graduated in 2010 with a degree for Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. From the beginning she lays the focus of her artistic projects on film, photo and performative works and participates in numerous exhibitions and screenings. Since 2007 she works on movies in the areas of development, script, casting, production and distribution. In 2016 she realizes her first narrative short fiction film Mimikri, which wins the Thomas Pluch Script Award for short
and medium length movies 2017 at the Diagonale, Festival of Austrian film.