[1][2] In 1994 she started working at TV in Paris, then moved to Hong Kong where she acted as a producer and screenwriter for educational films and documentaries.

[3] After that, she received a Fulbright grant that she used for her next project, The Virgin Diaries, shot in Morocco and premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.

[4][2] In 1999, while filming Urga Song in Mongolia, she met Peter Brosens, a fellow director, who was working on the third part of his 'Mongolia Trilogy'.

Based on a real life incident, the plot is centered on two female leads, a photojournalist Grace married to a doctor who works in a local village, and Saturnina, a young Peruvian Indian who lost her betrothed because of a mercury spillage caused by mining.

[17][18] Woodworth is a prolific and fruitful film director, she has released a dozen of features that have been screened in over 350 festivals and got over 70 awards.