was born in Moscow in 1981, and in 2002 she graduated with honors from the Economics Faculty of Moscow State University. In 2004, Svetlana came to the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) to become director of the documentary films, but dropped out after a few months. She couldn’t get to the film sets and decided to study cinema in practice. She has worked with European documentary filmmakers, but has never worked on her national TV. Svetlana has traveled a lot, and even lived in on the Greek island. In 2010, she came to the studio of Marina Razbezhkina as an external student, but didn’t shoot much. In February 2011, Svetlana participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus at the Berlin Film Festival, in October - December 2011 she had an 8-week program of training in the NYFA (New York Film Academy) in New York.

«Idiot», 2007; «Arhythmia», 2009; «Monstration», 2011; “Story about me”, 2011-2012; “It’s Hard to Be a God”, 2013.