Svetlana Filippova (1968, Alma-Ata) graduated in philology in 1991 from the Kazakh State University. In 1997 she has graduated from School-Studio SHAR and the High Course for scriptwriters and film directors as animation film director (workshops by Fedor Khitruk, Yuri Norstein, Eduard Nazarov and Andrey Khrzhanovsky). She lives in Moscow and makes animation films and book illustrations.