Darya Zhuk

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1980-04-26 (45 years old)

Place of Birth

Minsk, Belarus

Darya Zhuk

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 F...

Production

2020

The Long Breakup

as Additional Editor

2015

2015

2018

Crystal Swan

as Director

2011

2011

The Air Inside Her

as Screenplay

2015

2014

Eat the Tourists

as Screenplay

2011

Half-Life

as Screenplay

2011

Half-Life

as Director

2013

Wax

as Director

2014

Eat the Tourists

as Director

2013

Wax

as Screenplay

2018

Crystal Swan

as Co-Writer

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