Darya Zhuk

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1980-04-26 (44 years old)

Place of Birth Minsk, Belarus

Also Known As Дарья Жук, Daria Zhuk, Daria Jouk

Darya Zhuk

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.

Known For

Director

2021
The Premise

as Director

2019
Russian Affairs

as Director

2018
Crystal Swan

as Director

2015
The Real American

as Director

2015
2014
Eat the Tourists

as Director

2013
Wax

as Director

2011
The Air Inside Her

as Director

2011
Half-Life

as Director

Writer

2018
Crystal Swan

as Co-Writer

2015
2014
Eat the Tourists

as Screenplay

2013
Wax

as Screenplay

2011
The Air Inside Her

as Screenplay

2011
Half-Life

as Screenplay

Editor

2020
The Long Breakup

as Additional Editor

Producer