At 16 Slava discovered filmmaking almost by accident playing Rasha in the Bulgarian feature Christmas Tree Upside Down (Karlovy Vary Jury Prize 2006). Her next part in Crayfish (2009) brought her a Best Supporting Actress Award by the Bulgarian Film Academy just as she was graduating cum laude in Management at Bocconi University, Milan. Around that point Slava finally decided that what she wanted was to tell her own stories from behind the camera. 

During her MA at LFS, Slava wrote and directed four shorts - Whiteness (2011), Danny’s Death (2011), Happy Birthday Mom (2012) and Heart of Lead (2013). Her stories deal with the complexity of parent-child relationships, migrant life at home and away, and the decisions that lie behind inaction. At this moment Slava is developing another short for the National Film Center in Bulgaria and writing her first feature.