Valeria Treshchova was born in 1988 in Donetsk, Ukraine. In 2010, she obtained an MA in international economics, and later an MA in journalism. In 2013, she moved to Kyiv and started to work on social projects. In 2016, she began to study documentary filmmaking at Serhiy Bukovsky Film Program. His Bastille is Valeria’s directorial debut. This project won the Warscape Pitching which was held as part of Docudays UA IHRDFF in 2017, and was created with support from the ICRC.