Sevda Hasanova was born in Baku. She studied Financial Accounting and Auditing at the Azerbaijan State University of Economics (2005-2009). Since 2006, she has worked in administrative work at the Azerbaijan Professional Film Directors Guild. In different years, she worked as a chief accountant at EXA Production and Cinemazadeh companies (2017-2018). Since 2008, she has worked as a financial manager at the “Azerbaijanfilm” film studio, and since 2016, as a chief accountant at the Mozalan studio.