Liubov Borisova is a Russian filmmaker, born in 1982 in Verkhnevilyuisk. She graduated from the Financial and Economic Institute of Yakut State University in 2004 with a degree in World Economy. Since 2011, she has worked in film as an assistant director, second director, executive producer, editing director, screenwriter and director. Currently, she is working as a director in the film company Sakha’film. In 2019, she directed The Sun Above Me Never Sets, which won two awards at the Shanghai International Film Festival and was nominated for the Moscow International Film Festival’s Best Film Prize and the APSA Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO.
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