Darya Zhuk
Known for
Directing
Born
April 26, 1980 (age 46)
Birthplace
Minsk, Belarus
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.
Best known work
Little America
2020
Crystal Swan
2018
Russian Affairs
2019
The Premise
2021
The Long Breakup
2020
The Real American
2015
The Air Inside Her
2011
What Doesn't Kill You
2015
Half-Life
2011
Wax
2013Filmography
TBA
Through the Eyes of OthersDirector
TBA
2021
2020
The Long BreakupAdditional Editor
2020
2019
2018
Crystal SwanDirector, Co-Writer
2015
The Real AmericanWriter, Director
2015
What Doesn't Kill YouDirector
2014
Eat the TouristsDirector, Screenplay
2013
WaxScreenplay, Director
2011
The Air Inside HerDirector, Screenplay
2011
Half-LifeDirector, Screenplay
2008
A Film about Anna AkhmatovaProducer