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Darya Zhuk (b. 1980)

Alias:
Daria Jouk
Daria Zhuk
Дарья Жук

Birthplace:
Minsk, Belarus

Born:
April 26, 1980

Biography from TheMovieDB

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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Film Production

Additional Editor:
2020  The Long Breakup

Co-Writer:
2018  Crystal Swan
2020  The Long Breakup

Director:
2011  Half-Life
2011  The Air Inside Her
2013  Wax
2014  Eat the Tourists
2015  The Real American
2015  What Doesn't Kill You
2018  Crystal Swan
2020  The Long Breakup
????  Our Breasts Are Our Weapons: The History of the Femen Movement
????  Through the Eyes of Others

Producer:
2008  A Film about Anna Akhmatova
2011  Half-Life
2011  The Air Inside Her
2013  Wax
2014  Eat the Tourists
2015  The Real American
2015  What Doesn't Kill You
2018  Crystal Swan
2020  The Long Breakup
????  Our Breasts Are Our Weapons: The History of the Femen Movement
????  Through the Eyes of Others

Screenplay:
2008  A Film about Anna Akhmatova
2011  Half-Life
2011  The Air Inside Her
2013  Wax
2014  Eat the Tourists
2015  The Real American
2015  What Doesn't Kill You
2018  Crystal Swan
2020  The Long Breakup
????  Our Breasts Are Our Weapons: The History of the Femen Movement
????  Through the Eyes of Others

Writer:
2008  A Film about Anna Akhmatova
2011  Half-Life
2011  The Air Inside Her
2013  Wax
2014  Eat the Tourists
2015  The Real American
2015  What Doesn't Kill You
2018  Crystal Swan
2020  The Long Breakup
????  Our Breasts Are Our Weapons: The History of the Femen Movement
????  Through the Eyes of Others

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TV Production

Director:
2019  Russian Affairs
2021  The Premise

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