Olga Privolnova graduated from the Internews Independent Film and TV School in Moscow. After a decade working for Russia’s main TV channels she enrolled at Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov’s School of Documentary Film and Theatre, successfully graduating in 2013. Since 2015 she has run documentary workshops at international film festivals, including GogolFest, Zerkalo, Rudnik, and On the Edge: West.