Isabel Helena Vieira Cordato de Noronha (born March 18, 1964) is a film director from Mozambique.
[2] In 1984, at the age of twenty, Noronha began her film career at the National Cinema Institute, where she worked as a production assistant, assistant director, continuity editor, production director and finally as a director, learning the craft with other Mozambican filmmakers and technicians, in the practice of the weekly 10-minute newsreel Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema (the government's practice of presenting news in film reels so it could be distributed throughout the very poor country, where people didn't have televisions and where there were no movie theaters).
[5] Noronha started working as an independent filmmaker, and was one of the founders of the first video cooperative of the Mozambique directors guild, Coopimagem.
In 1991, she created Así na Cidade (Once upon a time in the city), a documentary film about child-soldier war refugees who sell newspapers in Maputo.
This same year she gave birth to her daughter, and decided to realize her dream of studying psychology at the Polytechnic University in Maputo.