Darya Zhuk
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- April 26, 1980
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography
- Our Breasts Are Our Weapons: The History of the Femen Movement
Our Breasts Are Our Weapons: The History of the Femen Movement TBA
Director
- Through the Eyes of Others
Through the Eyes of Others TBA
Director
The Long Breakup 2020
Additional Editor
Crystal Swan 2018
Director, Co-Writer
The Real American 2015
Writer, Director
What Doesn't Kill You 2015
Director
Eat the Tourists 2014
Director, Screenplay
Wax 2013
Director, Screenplay
The Air Inside Her 2011
Director, Screenplay
Half-Life 2011
Director, Screenplay
A Film about Anna Akhmatova 2008
Producer
Credits from TMDB.