Person
Darya Zhuk
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Apr 26, 1980
- From
- 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.
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The Long Breakup
The Real American
Crystal Swan
The Air Inside Her
Through the Eyes of Others
What Doesn't Kill You
Eat the Tourists
Half-Life
Wax
Our Breasts Are Our Weapons: The History of the Femen Movement
A Film about Anna Akhmatova
Russian Affairs
The Premise
Little America