Biography

Oksana Karpovych (born 1990) is a Ukrainian documentary film director, most noted for her 2024 film Intercepted. Originally from Kyiv, she moved to Canada in the 2010s to study documentary filmmaking at the Mel H. Hoppenheim School of Cinema. Her first documentary film, Don't Worry, the Doors Will Open (Ne khvylyuysya, dveri vidchynyatsya), premiered at the 2019 Montreal International Documentary Festival, where it won the New Vision Award. It was a nominee for the Directors Guild of Canada's DGC Discovery Award in 2020.