Born in 1987, Thea is from Ukraine, she completed her MA in Film, Television and Multimedia Production at the University of Rome in 2015. Upon her graduation she spent three months in Los Angeles at the New York Film Academy, practicing at the Universal Studios. She attended film studies at Oxford Brookes University, Birkbeck College of the University of London and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3.

Thea won an award from Istituto Luce Cinecittà for her directorial debut "La Nazione Felice" and a research scholarship for Mexico for her MA thesis dedicated to intermediality and Mexican collective imagery in Luis Buñuel and Alejandro Jodorowsky's movies.

She founded PhD Films, in 2016. Her International filmography counts more than 30 independent projects, including narrative short films, video art and music videos. She was the member of the international jury at the 45th Filmets Film Festival in Badalona, Spain and the 11th and 12th BCN Sports Film Festival in Barcelona, Spain.

    She was awarded the Fellowship for the artist-in-residence (mentor program) by the Vice-Versa Foundation.

"Living with the Gods is a trance journey through time and space, where the only actors are symbols and metaphors. The main protagonist of this story is Goa as a physical place and a metaphysical concept. In this experimental video C.G. Jung's archetypes, such as Persona, Animus, Anima, Shadow and Self, are applied to the visual manifestations of Goan collective imagery. It has a circular maze structure moving inwards from an external image of Golden Goa, passing through its Portuguese Christian legacy (Shadow), Hindu traditions amidst lush tropical nature (Anima), Konkani tribal deity Betal (Animus), towards its inner essence that conceals all these parts within, representing contemporary Goan ethos, or Self, through hypnotic visions of its mysterious figure, Abbe Faria.