Studied at Allegheny College, Meadville, PA. and at the University of the Applied Arts, Vienna. MA. Before she made her own films, she worked as a curator & organiser of film & video festivals and has written about film. She trained as AC in New York and Rome ( MOMO in cinecittà ) and as AD when peeping into the rehearsals of Straub-Huillet’s DER TOD DES EMPEDOKLES. Since 1991she made documentary films. In 1998 she received the Landeskulturpreis for Documentary Film. In 2004 she joined WILDart FILM as head of development and producer.