Riedel made her debut feature film in 2005 with the film How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer starring America Ferrera. The film was financed entirely by her parents and took over a year to edit as Riedel could not raise additional funds to finish the film. The film premiered In Competition at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival but was not released until 2008. In 2015 Riedel released her second feature film, Ana Maria in Novela Land starring Edy Ganem. She directed the Chapter Thirty-Eight episode of Jane the Virgin.