Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu was born in 1978 in Chisinau, Moldova. After studying in her hometown, she lived from 1999 to 2000 in Benin, West Africa, working mainly in the sphere of theatre. From 2002 to 2004 she worked as assistant director for documentary and fiction films with such directors as Volker Koepp and Cristi Mungiu, in Berlin and Bucharest. Her two feature films to date are Panihilda (2012) and Anishoara (2016).