In 2003, Noronha began combining her work as a psychotherapist with her film work. With the help of a grant from the Amocine movie fund, she shot the documentary film Sonhos Guardados (Guarded Dreams). In 2007 she made her first full-length film, Ngwenya, o crocodilo (Ngwenya the Crocodile), about the Mozambican artist, Malangatana Valente Ngwenya.[6]