Oksana Karpovych is a Ukrainian-Canadian filmmaker, writer and photographer born in Kyiv. She lives and works between Kyiv and Montreal. Her first feature documentary Don’t Worry, the Doors Will Open won the New Visions Award at RIDM in 2019 and received a special mention at Hot Docs 2020. In her personal projects, Karpovych explores the everyday life and oral histories of ordinary people and how state politics intrude into the private sphere, influencing the communities she intimately documents. Karpovych is a Cultural Studies graduate of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine and a Film Production graduate of Concordia University in Montreal.
Filmography
INTERCEPTED, 93 min, Documentary, 2024
DON’T WORRY, THE DOORS WILL OPEN, 78 min, Documentary, 2019
TEMPORARY, 21 min, Documentary, 2017
LOST, 6 min, Documentary, 2015