Yasmin Angel was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1978. With the dream of being an astronaut, she studied physics, but broke off her studies after three years to turn to film and art. Her first art work was the photo exhibition «The Last Moment», exhibited in 2002 at the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá. Since 2006 she lives in Germany. She passed her pre-diploma in Directing of fiction film and documentary at the University of fine arts of Hamburg. in 2016 she graduated from the University of Media Arts Cologne. In 2014 she was awarded the «Karl Miescher Preis» Between Film and Science from the University of Tübingen and was nominated for the award Prix Jeunesse. Her Films have been shown at International Film-festivals, such as International Documentary Filmfest Amsterdam (IDFA), TIFF, Oberhausen, Ozu( Oscar Qualified), Winterthur Filmfest and Max Ophüls Preis, among others. She ist currently working on documentary and fictional film projects with the support of NRW and other film founds in Begium.