What Doesn’t Kill You
United States, 18m, Digital
After a rare diagnosis, Lily's attempts to flee from war-torn Israel are thwarted when the airport shuts down and her zany cousin forces her to party.
Director: Darya Zhuk
Writer(s): Hannah Janal, Hannah Sanderson Buchner, Ariel Richter
Producer(s): Hannah Janal
Director of Photography: Ziv Berkovich
Editor(s): Niv Klainer
Composer(s): Nicholas Britell
Sound Design: Dave Rivera
Cast: Alexandra Roxo, Nelly Tagar, Oshri Cohen, Michael Moshonov, Shani Klein.
Contact: Hannah Janal, bootstrapfilms@gmail.com
About the Writer/Director
Born in Minsk, Belarus, DARYA ZHUK was 16 when she left to study in the United States. A Harvard graduate, she tried her hand at various film genres such as documentary and video art before firmly arriving at her interest in narrative directing. She holds an M.F.A. in Directing, with honors from Columbia University. Her films were selected to the Tarkovsky, Oaxaca, Palm Springs, SXSW and Atlanta film festivals, among others. She recently directed the TV pilot Filfak for Russian channel TNT, which was greenlit for production. Zhuk lives in Brooklyn, NY.
About the Producer
HANNAH JANAL is a graduate of Bard College and Columbia University. Her producing projects have screened at the Cleveland, Los Angeles, Slamdance, SXSW, Tribeca and Woodstock Film Festivals. A native New Yorker, she splits her time between Manhattan and Tel Aviv, Israel.
