About

Known credits:
17
Birthday:
1980-04-26
Place of birth:
Minsk, Belarus
Website:
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Darya Zhuk

Overview

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

Directing
2018 Crystal Swan Directing Director 59
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2015 The Real American Directing Director 59
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2015 What Doesn't Kill You Directing Director 59
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2014 Eat the Tourists Directing Director 59
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2013 Wax Directing Director 59
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2011 The Air Inside Her Directing Director 59
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2011 Half-Life Directing Director 59
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Our Breasts Are Our Weapons: The History of the Femen Movement Directing Director N/A
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Through the Eyes of Others Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2018 Crystal Swan Writing Co-Writer 59
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2015 The Real American Writing Writer 59
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2014 Eat the Tourists Writing Screenplay 59
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2013 Wax Writing Screenplay 59
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2011 The Air Inside Her Writing Screenplay 59
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2011 Half-Life Writing Screenplay 59
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Production
2008 A Film about Anna Akhmatova Production Producer N/A
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Editing
2020 The Long Breakup Editing Additional Editor 59
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