Victoria Trofimenko

As a film student at Kiev's National University of Theatre, Film, and TV she directed a number of documentary films for TV and shorts for international festivals. For her graduating film, she decided to make a feature-length adaptation of the novel by Swedish classic Torgny Lindgren. The resulting debut drama Brothers. "The final confession" (2013) was selected to 3 "class A" festivals and got several international awards. It was theatrically released in 28 cities in Ukraine, screened in many countries, and sold to Swedish TV channel SVT. In 2016 Victoria became the first Ukrainian participant selected to the program "Ekran+" from Wajda School & Studio (Warsaw). And in 2017 - the first Ukrainian selected for the script writing program "eQuinoxe Europe", where she develops the script of her second feature film "Yakiv", under the guidance of award-winning international mentors.