Naira Sargsyan, born in 1985, graduated from the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography of Feature film Directing department in 2017. From 2007 to 2010, she did her Ph.D. in the same institute, and published various articles on cinema language and film structure. Her thesis dealt with Sound in Film Structure. She worked as an assistant director in Armenian public television and was the casting assistant to Maria Saakyan for her film Mayak (2006). General Cleaning was her debut as a scriptwriter and director. In 2025, her second short film The Eternal Red will be released.
