Director

Darya Zhuk

Directing

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Directed credits

Active

Regular directing credits.

TMDB popularity

2.5

Moderate attention

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Directed movies: 4Directed series: 2All crew credits: 11

TMDB ID: 1987241

IMDb ID: nm2660273

Known for: Directing

Born: April 26, 1980

Age: 45

Place of birth: Minsk, Belarus

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2008 - 2021

Years active: 14

Average TMDB rating: 6.4

Wikidata: Q56154653

Also known as

Дарья Жук • Daria Zhuk • Daria Jouk

Frequent jobs

Director (6)Screenplay (2)Additional Editor (1)Producer (1)Writer (1)

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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.