Marusya Syroechkovskaya was born in 1989 in Moscow, Russia. Marusya studied documentary filmmaking at the School for Documentary Film and Documentary Theatre in Moscow under professor Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov in 2008 and received her Master’s in Film Directing from the Department of Filmmaking at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow in 2014. In 2011 she participated in Flahertiana
documentary workshop (Perm, Russia). In 2014 participated in Picture Berlin (Berlin, Germany) summer residency/art
academy. Marusya is a Nipkow programm's fellow of 2015, and 
a member of the Russian Documentary Guild (RGDoc). Her most recent project is a film titled Insomnia, which she produced in 2018.

Pictured: Still from "Insomnia" (2018)