Darya Zhuk
Directing
- Born
- April 26, 1980 (age 46) · Minsk, Belarus
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
Behind the camera11
- 2020The Long Breakup Additional Editor
- 2018Crystal Swan Director, Co-Writer
- 2015The Real American Writer, Director
- 2015What Doesn't Kill You Director
- 2014Eat the Tourists Screenplay, Director
- 2013Wax Director, Screenplay
- 2011The Air Inside Her Director, Screenplay
- 2011Half-Life Screenplay, Director
- 2008A Film about Anna Akhmatova Producer
- TBAThrough the Eyes of Others