Valentyna Zalevska was born in 1988, graduated in Culture and Arts in Ukraine, and media program from the University of Nebraska (USA). Since 2009 she has been working at International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art in Ukraine, now she is one of the programmers and festival curators there. Valentyna has implemented many cultural and art events in Ukraine and abroad, and linked to various film festivals as a programmer, curator, and collaborator (Lviv International Short Film Festival, Visionar Film Festival, Ukrainian cinema in Iceland, Rover Film Festival, etc.). She is also a short film producer. Currently based in Berlin, Valentina runs the annual Ukrainian film festival Berlin and runs her own distribution company Plivka Films curating & promoting films.