An award-winning Russian screenwriter, director, and author of numerous TV series and successful feature films, Natalya Nazarova made her feature directorial debut in 2012 with The Daughter. It went on to win the FIPRESCI (International Critics) awards at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and the Warsaw International Film Festival, and the best debut award at the Kinotavr festival. It was also selected for the Honfleur, Cottbus, Gothenburg, Palm Springs, San Francisco, and Brussels festivals, as well as many others. She contributed a section to the omnibus film Petersburg: A Selfie (2016), directed the short film Firefly (2016) and co-directed the feature Love Triangle (2019).