Anna Zaytseva was born on April 2, 1985 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Russia) in a family of a director and an actress. She has lived in Moscow most of her life. Anna graduated from the international directing master program of FAMU (Czech Republic) in 2014. Her mentor was Ivo Trajkov, an acclaimed Czech-Macedonian director. Anna’s films took part in 52 film festivals and her short films "The contract", "Lisa" and «No, you’re stupid!» received 16 international awards. Her short film «No, you’re stupid!» is the most popular film among Russian teenagers and has more than 24 millions views on YouTube. Anna directed criminal TV comedy "Rules of the safecracker" for Russian TV. Her 10-episode TV series "Hero on call" was in the competition section of the prestigious Russian series festival “Pilot”. At the moment, Anna is finishing as a writer–director her teenage thriller #Blue_whale (#IWantToPlayTheGame) with Timur Bekmambetov’s Studio Bazelevs.