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 projects, including films and oral histories, Karpovych explores ordinary people’s everyday lives, 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.