Ivana Noa is a Flemish kid writer and director. She writes her first short story at the age of 6. At the age of 9 she wins the Belgian kids writing competition “The Wonder Quill”. At the age of 10 she writes her first script and works on her first book. Ivana directs her first short film in 2014. FEELING TO DIVE AND OTHER STORIES is official selection of a number of International Film Festivals and wins Best narrative short at Williamsburg IFF. In 2015, at the age of 12 and together with the release of her second film UNOFFICIAL: JUDO, Ivana Noa wins the Rising Star Award of Chicago International Film Festival. The film wins another three awards: in Atlanta, Fort Lauderdale, and Williamsburg and is official selection of festivals across the world. With ACTRESS and INTERVIEW WITH A DIRECTOR, she continues exploring the documentary genre. Her ability to mix different expressive elements in her films such as original poetry and conceptual art is establishing her as a young documentary experimental artist, searching into the interpreted reality. Her recent short FALLIN is dedicated to the school bus crash in Sierre, Switzerland, where 22 kids lost their lives. The film is official selection of a number of international film festivals. Ivana Noa has been invited to be a jury member of several International film and theater festivals among which Het Theater Festival, Chicago Children FF, European Youth Film Festival. In 2017 she is presenter of the YAA of the European Film Awards Showreel: https://vimeo.com/192504774.