Fredgy Noël (director, DP, editor)
Fredgy Noël is a Haitian-American award-winning director and screenwriter based in Manhattan. Noël's films offer quirky, inclusive, female-driven stories that balance narrative and documentary techniques. Her work is an extension of how she sees the world in all of its nuance, complexity, and beauty.
She spent her formative years in Haiti, DC, and Miami. She learned English from music videos in the late 80s and started working on video treatments for songs at age 9. In college, she studied English and took classes in Black film, auteur theory, and linguistics. After moving to NYC, she worked at MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, and BET, where she wrote and directed short-form commercials. She pivoted to writing and directing short films and documentaries, and her films have screened in multiple Academy Award-qualifying festivals and garnered numerous awards. Noël has US and international commercial representation, and is a featured Free the Work director. In 2021, she joined the Directors Guild of America. In 2022, she will receive an MFA degree from Hunter College’s Integrated Media Arts program. And she recently matriculated at NYU Film School, where she will study for an MFA in Film.