Darya Zhuk

Belarusborn awardwinning 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 writerdirector 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