She was born in 1982. She graduated from the Moscow State University’s philological department in 2006. Then she began studying filmmaking in Sweden and later film-directing at the High Courses of Script-writing and Film-directing in Moscow, Russia. In September 2011 she took part in Tonino Guerra’s workshop in Pennabilli, Italy. In 2012 participated in Mark Travis’ workshop „Technique for Directing Actors”.