‏Darya Zhuk‏

Belarus-born director Darya Zhuk unexpectedly discovered filmmaking while studying Economics at Harvard and it derailed her life. Today, a proud graduate of Columbia University MFA program in Directing, she has been obsessing about filmmaking long enough to see her films selected to SXSW, Tarkovsky, Oaxaca, Atlanta, Palm Springs, Koroche, Santa Fe Independent film festivals just to name a few. In 2015, she won the best female writer-director award from New York Women in Film and Television for her work on The Real American, as well as the best short at the oldest film festival in Belarus, Listapad; What Doesn't Kill You won the best short at Boston Jewish Film Festival. She strives to tell fun, unapologetically messy stories about always strong, diverse, and sometimes shocking women. She lives and creates between Minsk and Brooklyn.