Angela Christlieb is a freelance writer, director, editor, and media artist who lives in Vienna and Berlin. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Berlin under Valie Export (Video Art) and Heinz Emigholz (Experimental Filmmaking), as well as film production in New York. Her film Naked Opera (2013) won the Heiner-Carow-Award at Berlinale and a Press Jury Award at the Film Festival St. Petersburg. Under the Underground (2019) won the Audience Award at the Soundwatch Music Film Festival in Berlin and the Jury Award for Best Music Documentary at the Music Film Festival in Hamburg.