Lena is an award-winning director and producer.
She was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and is currently based in Washington, DC.
Between 2012 and 2015, she worked as a theatre director in three of the biggest Bulgarian theatres.
In 2015, she moved to South Africa to pursue her postgraduate degree in Motion Picture and started shooting short fiction and documentary films.
In 2019, she moved to the United States and has been working at the Cato Institute since 2020.
She continues to work on documentary and fiction projects and has a special interest in VR/AR production.
Lena is also one of the founders of the International Film Festival On the Beach, an environmental film festival on the Black Sea.