Rusanna Danielian was born in 1983 in Armenia then moved to Germany, along with her family at the age of seven.

After graduating from High School she studied Pedagogy with the focus on Media Education from 2004 to 2010 at the University of Bielefeld. Afterward, she worked for three years as a media educator in different film and television projects.

Completing various advanced filmmaking courses at the Filmhaus Köln she finally got the chance to make her first film "Up & Down" as a Leading Director. The short film was produced in her home country of Armenia and was sponsored by the National Cinema Center of Armenia.

In 2013 she extended my educational work at Met Film School Berlin to realize own film projects and establish herself as a Filmmaker, which she finished in October 2015 with the BA (Hons) degree in Practical Filmmaking. Her graduation film „Unknown Life“ was once again shot in Armenia.

In the last five years, Rusanna has written and directed short films from fiction till documentary in various genres and has co-written and co-directed the feature film „KRUSH“ which was shot in the BUFA film studios in Berlin.

Currently, she is working as an independent filmmaker in her hometown Kerpen and is also writing novels and children books of which some have been published as audio plays and one even adapted for a puppet theater.