Julija Zubaviciene in 2008 received her BA in film directing at VGIK (Moscow). In 2014 she graduated from London Royal Holloway University where she had studied script-writing. Her graduate short film Hunger (2008) was nominated for Silver Crane award in Lithuania. Her script for a short film was long-listed in London Film Fund and diploma work was shortlisted in BBC Writers Room.. Lida Vanda Liusia is her first feature film.