In 1984, Noronha In 1984, at the age of twenty, Noronha began her film career at the National Cinema Institute, where she worked as a production assistant, assistant director, continuity editor, production director and finally as a director, learning the craft with other Mozambican filmmakers and technicians, in the practice of Kuxa kanema (the government's practice of presenting news in film reels so it could be distributed throughout the very poor country, where people didn't have televisions and where there were no movie theaters).[2] Here she created her first two documentary films, Hosi Katekisa Moçambique and Manjacaze. The mid-1980s are considered a seminal time in the Mozambique film industry, and one of the flourishing periods of cinema in southern Africa.[3]