Olga’s creative path began in the world of graphic arts and hand-drawn animation, before evolving through a decade-long career in international advertising at Saatchi & Saatchi, where she crafted award-winning campaigns. This led to a commissioned documentary exploring the ad industry itself – and a pivot towards narrative storytelling.

Her debut short film went on to win multiple awards on the festival circuit, including BAFTA LA. She later studied screenwriting at UCLA and the NFTS, honing a voice that blends visual precision with emotional nuance and dark, culturally aware humour.

Since 2011, Olga has run a directors' agency and commercial production company while steadily building a slate of international film and TV projects (2022–present). Her BAFTA-Rocliffe-winning feature animation The Trouble with Martha is currently in development, with Helen Blakeman (BAFTA/EMMY) co-executive producing and Neil Boyle (Kensuke’s Kingdom) set to direct.

Olga’s work often explores fractured places and shifting identities – from Hope, a deeply personal drama shortlisted for the Sundance Development Track, 2023 and developed through Torino Film Lab Extended, to Goldmine, a Mexico-set thriller selected for TFL Next Series Lab, and Bloody Bay, in development with Midpoint Series Launch, 2025.

Her drama Alone in the Ocean, based on the memoir of the same name, is co-produced by Artem Vassiliev (Lazy Sunday) and André Logie (Panache Productions), and is slated to shoot in 2026; several earlier Russian co-productions were halted by the invasion of Ukraine.

She also collaborates with Swiss studio Avocado360 on immersive formats, and is currently writing and co-producing The Last Symphony, a 360° documentary with Swiss Film Fund support.

Olga lives in London.

BAFTA Connect member / Sundance and TFL Alumna.

Graduate of the UCLA Writers’ Program, 2018; NFTS Finding Your Voice, 2019.

For advertising bio, please visit ADVERTISING page.