Darya Zhuk

Directing

Darya Zhuk

Born
(age 46)
Birthplace
Minsk, Belarus
Credits
14 titles

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.

Signature work

Known For

Crew credits 14

YearTitleJob
TBA Through the Eyes of Others Film Director
TBA Our Breasts Are Our Weapons: The History of the Femen Movement Film Director
2021 The Premise TV Director (1 ep)
2020 The Long Breakup Film Additional Editor
2020 Little America TV Director, Teleplay (1 ep)
2019 Russian Affairs TV Director (8 ep)
2018 Crystal Swan Film Director, Co-Writer
2015 The Real American Film Writer, Director
2015 What Doesn't Kill You Film Director
2014 Eat the Tourists Film Director, Screenplay
2013 Wax Film Screenplay, Director
2011 The Air Inside Her Film Director, Screenplay
2011 Half-Life Film Director, Screenplay
2008 A Film about Anna Akhmatova Film Producer
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