Her feature directorial debut Sombras de Azul[1][2] was shot on-location in Cuba and premiered at the Austin Film Festival in 2013, winning the Texas Independents Audience Award.
Norris cited her late brother and father as inspirations for her love of cinema, which was cultivated at a very young age.
He afterward converted a section of the garage into a makeshift video library, bought a Betamax player, and taught his 5-year-old daughter how to use it.
[14] Her honors thesis was entitled, "In Search of the Tea Philosopher within the Cinematic Essayist: Chris Marker's Sans Soleil" advised under Richard Peña[15] which "deconstructed the essay-film genre using Phillip Lopate’s criteria alongside the writings of Kazou Okakura".
[19] In 2019, Norris gave a talk at the Austin Film Society Cinema on her archival research on stuntwomen from the 1910s, focusing on Helen Holmes of The Hazards of Helen, discussing how the use of fantastical, death-defying female bodies in these early silent serials served to promote and reinforce a new vision of a woman, falling in line with the momentum of First Wave Feminism and the Suffragette Movement of the era.