Leonor Noivo studied Editing and Directing at Escola de Cinema de Lisboa. She attended a course offered by Ateliers Varan, at Fundação Gulbenkian. Since 1999 she works as a script supervisor and assistant director in fiction and documentary features, and has collaborated with João Pedro Rodrigues, João Salaviza, João Nicolau, Marília Rocha, Pedro Pinho, João Vladimiro, among others. She is co-founder of production company Terratreme.