Writer/director Natalia Iyudin (she/her) works with the themes of oppression and personal freedom, both in the narrative genres of sci-fi and horror, and her nonfiction work.

Her short films screened worldwide — most notably The Garden, starring Sophia Lillis (Uncle Frank, Sharp Objects) — and in 2019, she made her directorial TV debut for the CW and Netflix, with pilot episode of Two Sentence Horror Stories.

Natalia has directed for national mental health campaigns around teen suicide and opioid crises; and on several projects for Toyota. She also co-created and directed We Got You, an award-winning digital series with Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter of The Roots; and One Story at a Time: Celeste Lecesne (DC/DOX 2024) for the TMI Project.
She has developed episodic work including Girly, with EP Rashida Jones and Refinery29.

A graduate of the Directing Program at the Krzysztof Kieslowski School of Film & Television in her native Poland, Natalia is also a seasoned TV and film editor, as well as a programmer, and has worked with MTV, BET, PBS, Vogue, MoMA, Film Society of Lincoln Center, National Gallery of Arts, BAM, Sony Pictures Classics among others.