Chanya Button was born in London in 1986. After studying drama and literature at Oxford University she became an assistant director in a few of the most prestigious theaters of the English capital (The Globe, the Bush, the Tricycle). She then turned to film and was immediately noticed by her first three shorts, 'Frog/Robot' (2011), 'Fire' (2012) and 'Alpha: Omega' (2013). Her first feature, 'Burn Burn Burn', which she not only directed but produced as well, came in 2016. It succeeded in the achievement of being at the same time thought-provoking and hilarious. Her second feature, 'Vita & Virginia', is by nature less funny insofar as it is the faithful account of the complex relationship shared by Virginia Woolf and her lover and admirer Vita Sackville-West, the two ladies being interpreted with talent Elizabeth Debicki and Gemma Arterton.