Hannah Fidell wrote and directed the feature film A Teacher, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and went on to play such festivals as SXSW where she won the Chicken & Egg Female Narrative Directing Award. In 2012, she was named to Filmmaker Magazine’s annual '25 New Faces of Independent Film' list. Fidell is developing A Teacher into a television show with HBO and her second feature, 6 Years, premiered at SXSW ‘15. She is a current fellow of Fox Studio’s Global Directing Inititiavite, a program aimed to get more women directing episodic TV.