Darya Zhuk

Directing·Apr 26, 1980·Minsk, Belarus

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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.

Film	Credit
Crystal Swan2018 · Director	Director
The Real American2015 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
What Doesn't Kill You2015 · Director	Director
Eat the Tourists2014 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Wax2013 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Air Inside Her2011 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Half-Life2011 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
A Film about Anna Akhmatova2008 · Producer	Producer
TThrough the Eyes of OthersDirector	Director
OOur Breasts Are Our Weapons: The History of the Femen MovementDirector	Director