Directing
Darya Zhuk
RU, EN cinema · 11 credits
Born
26 April 1980 (age 46)
Birthplace
Minsk, Belarus
Also known as Дарья Жук · Daria Zhuk · Daria Jouk
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.
Known for
Filmography
Наши груди - наше оружие
Our Breasts Are Our Weapons: The History of the Femen Movement
Director
The Long Breakup
Additional Editor
Crystal Swan
Director, Co-Writer
The Real American
Writer, Director
Eat the Tourists
Director, Screenplay
Wax
Screenplay, Director
The Air Inside Her
Director, Screenplay
Half-Life
Director, Screenplay
