Elena Weiss studied acting at HMdK Stuttgart and has been working as an actress since 2012 in German theaters and for film and television. In 2015 she began directing theatre plays. She also started developing plays in collaboration with art collectives such as DIE WOHLPRÄPARIERTE FRAU (nominated for Friedrich Luft Preis) and the feminist performance BITCH PERFECT. In 2016 she began directing her first own films, such as the SCI-FI silent movie ROB UND BOB. In 2020 she wrote and directed ALIEN INSIDE, a short movie that deals with normative perception of pregnancy. Since 2020 Eléna has been studying film directing at the Hamburg Media School.