In the 1980s she was a member of a street theatre group and a music band, it was also then that she made her first experimental videos and Super 8 films.
Together with Swiss artist Agnes Barmettler and the Hopi Native American James Danaqymptewa she shot the feature documentary Techqua Ikachi, Land - My Life which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992.
Schmid completed her studies at DFFB in 1991 with her feature film Behind Locked Doors (original title Hinter verschlossenen Türen) which won several awards.
She has since been living and working as an independent film maker and assistant director in Germany, Switzerland, France, Argentina and the US.
[5] Her latest feature documentary Wild Women – Gentle Beasts about female animal tamers in the circus was shot and shown in Germany, France, Russia and Switzerland.