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Originally from Lithuania, Valda started her VFX career in London, UK as a runner at DNEG in 2010. After about 6 months of laminating shot boards and running drives between offices she started as a production assistant on the movie Paul. She then went on to become a production coordinator and line producer working on various projects like John Carter, Dark Knight Rises, Man of Steel, In The Heart of the Sea and Terminator Genisys at DNEG London.

She moved to Vancouver in 2016 to help open DNEG’s first Canadian Office and was promoted to Production Manager. Once DNEG departmentalized their offices, Valda took on a Shot Finishing Department Manager role which involved looking after all the ENV/GEN, Lighting and COMP artists in the Vancouver studio.

After that position she went on to become a Central Production Manager and helped open DNEG TV Vancouver division. In 2019 Valda went on to manage the biggest project DNEG Vancouver had taken up to this point – Dune. Most recently Valda was working as a Producer. She brings over a decade of production experience to the Distillery team.