Svetlana Filippova’s first degree was in philology. In 1997, she graduated from the Higher Courses for Screenwriters and Directors and SHAR School and Studio in Moscow with a specialty as a director/animator. She studied in the studios of Fyodor Khitruk, Yuri Norstein, Eduard Nazarov, and Andrei Khrzhanovsky. She has taken part in numerous film festivals and art and book exhibitions in Russia and elsewhere. She has done several drawing series, as well as illustrations for Manana Menabde’s parables, Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s stories, Andrei Platonov’s novels The Foundation Pit and Chevengur, Ivan Bunin’s “Dark Avenues,” and the Gospel of John. Her illustrations have been recognized with special awards several times, and her animated films have been awarded prizes at international festivals.
