SARAH DAISY ELLERSDORFER was born in Munich in 1988. After finishing school, she studied philosophy and worked as an assistant director at the Vienna Burgtheater. After that she directed a theatre play that won the Jungwild Price in 2015. While working for the coop 99 film production company she assisted with scripts, researching for a documentary and the production of a feature film. In 2017 she started studying at the HFF Filmschool in Munich.