Although last weekend marked the end of the Cannes Film Festival, our first ever film post for today is Nomadland, the film that won Chloé Zhao the Academy Award for Best Director, making her the second woman and first woman of colour to do so.

Born in Beijing, Chloé went to school in Brighton and LA before deciding to study Politics at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. However, her time studying politics made her disillusioned with it, and she decided to take her passion of learning people’s stories to pursue filmmaking, her college minor.