Person
Darya Zhuk
Directing · Born 1980-04-26 · Minsk, Belarus
Biography
Belarus-born award-winning film director Darya Zhuk has been obsessing over filmmaking long enough to see her short films selected at SXSW, Tarkovsky, Oaxaca, Atlanta, Palm Springs, Koroche, Santa Fe Independent film festivals, to name a few. She is a graduate of Columbia University MFA program in Directing. Darya lives and creates between Minsk and Brooklyn. In 2015, she won the best female writer/director award from New York Women in Film and Television for her short film The Real American. Her feature debut Crystal Swan screened in the East of the West Competition at Karlovy Vary IFF 2018 and won the Grand Prix at the Odesa International Film Festival.
Known for
Russian Affairs
Director
The Premise
Director
The Real American
Writer
Crystal Swan
Director
What Doesn't Kill You
Director
Eat the Tourists
Director
The Long Breakup
Additional Editor
The Air Inside Her
Director
Wax
Director
Through the Eyes of Others
Director
Filmography
- 2021The PremiseDirector
- 2020The Long BreakupAdditional Editor
- 2019Russian AffairsDirector
- 2018Crystal SwanDirector
- 2015The Real AmericanWriter
- 2015What Doesn't Kill YouDirector
- 2014Eat the TouristsDirector
- 2013WaxDirector
- 2011The Air Inside HerDirector
- 2011Half-LifeDirector
- 2008A Film about Anna AkhmatovaProducer
- —Through the Eyes of OthersDirector
- —Our Breasts Are Our Weapons: The History of the Femen MovementDirector
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