Born in the UK in 1984, Laura went on to study architecture at the Glasgow School of Art, before moving to Vienna in 2009, where she began making her first films. In 2017 she realised her debut feature 8:30, which after a successful participation at international Film Festivals, earning numerous awards for narrative and experimental fiction, distributed in German Cinemas and was selected to screen on MUBI in June 2019. She is a Film Independent Directing Lab, Berlinale Talents and Torino Film Lab Fellow.