After graduating in visual communication design (2002) in Ljubljana, she continued her studies at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne.

[5][6] Špela Čadež has been working in Slovenia as an animation film director and producer since 2008.

[18] It also won the Jury Award at the 2021 Annecy Animation Festival.

[19] Her previous film Nighthawk screened at Sundance Festival.

[20] In 2022 she received the highest Slovenian cultural accolade, the Prešeren Fund Award, for her work described as the “culmination of the revival of original Slovenian animated filmmaking".