Lusin Dink was born in 1981 in Istanbul,Turkey. Studied cinema at Istanbul Bilgi University, where she shot her first short, Threep, in 2001. After graduating, she worked as an assistant director on over 15 international projects including The International, Hitman, Dragon Trap and The Stone Merchant. The docudrama, Saroyanland (2013), was her first full-lenght feature.