Helen is a cuban/ austrian Director and Choreographer with a strong sense for visual storytelling and aesthetics.

Her theatrical backround fuels her creative perspective, always pushing to change conventional approaches, questioning techniques and bounderies for both, film and dance.

In summer 2023 Helen was invited to join BAFTA as a Connect member to further deepen & enrich her career as a Director.

She started classical ballet aged three in Moscow and continued most of her education in Austria. She moved on to study contemporary dance 2009 at Iwanson School of Contemporary Dance in Munich seeking more freedom of movement & expression. Shortly after graduating in 2012, Helen successfully auditioned for a london based company. She went on to work as a professional dancer in London for the next 5 years, touring through the UK, Lithuania and Austria. She worked in several commissions of the Royal Opera House London as well as in operas, commercials, music videos and feature films.

Helen had her choreographic debut in Austria 2015 in Bizet´s Opera “Les Pecheurs des Perles” at Theater and der Wien. 2018 she had the pleasure to work as an Assistant Choreographer to Arthur Pita in the Feature Film “Charlie´s Angels”.

After moving to Vienna she started working as a post- production producer for Red Bull Media House, mostly overlooking projects such as Batalla de los Gallos and BC One for the Latin-American market. In 2019 she started getting more and more into directing commercials, music videos & fashion films.

In 2021 Helen premiered her first full evening theatre production “ Entre Portas”, an immersive dance piece about domestic abuse, she directed, produced and choreographed in Lisbon.

Since 2019 Helen has directed commercials for clients such as Qatar Airways, Vinted, Citroen and has shot several musicvideos aswell as fashionfilms. Her Dokumentary “Alma Anciana” that she co-directed with DoP Fabio Mota will be released in cinemas throughout Portugal October 2024. Currently Helen is in pre-production for her funded shortfilm “Text me when you´re home” to be shot in Vienna and “Nachklang”, also a shortfilm to be shot in Munich early 2025.