Alex Karpovsky
Alex Karpovsky is an American director, actor, screenwriter, producer and editor.
Alex Karpovsky's first feature-length film, The Hole Story, was completed in 2006. The critically acclaimed dark comedy garnered numerous awards on the festival circuit before being released theatrically by Indiepix. Karpovsky's follow-up feature, Woodpecker premiered at the 2008 South by Southwest Film Festival and was released by Carnivalesque Films in September 2009. Alex's most recent film, Trust Us, This Is All Made Up, premiered at the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival and was released by B-Side Entertainment in February 2010 before the company folded a few days later (the film was subsequently released by the New Video Group and continues to air regularly on The Documentary Channel).
As an actor, Karpovsky recently played the male lead in Beeswax which premiered at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival; the voices of several Russian gangsters in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV; Mean Man Mike in Harmony and Me, which premiered at the 2009 New Directors/New Films Series; Paul Lucas in Lovers of Hate, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival; Vlad in Bass Ackwards, which also premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival; Jed in Tiny Furniture, which premiered at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival, where it won the Narrative Jury Prize for Best Feature Film; Paul in The Grownups, which screened at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Rookie Agent in Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and Wally Combs in Wuss, which premiered at the 2011 SXSW Film Festival.
Karpovsky also recently acted or is committed to act in the following films, set to be released in late 2011 or early 2012: Almost in Love, This Is My Girlfriend, Good Night, Incredibly Small, The Third Day, and Marvin Seth and Stanley. Karpovsky also plays the recurring character of Ray in the upcoming HBO comedy series Girls.
[edit] Filmography
As a director/producer/writer
- 2006 The Hole Story
- 2008 Woodpecker
- 2009 Trust Us, This Is All Made Up
As an actor
- 2003 Cry Funny Happy
- 2006 The Hole Story (principal)
- 2009 Grand Theft Auto IV (video game)
- 2009 Beeswax (principal)
- 2009 Harmony and Me (supporting)
- 2010 Lovers of Hate (principal)
- 2010 Bass Ackwards
- 2010 Tiny Furniture (supporting)
- 2010 Incredibly Small (supporting)
- 2010 The Grownups (principal)
- 2011 Almost In Love (principal)
- 2011 Wuss (supporting)
- 2011 Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (supporting)
- 2012 Girls (recurring)(TV:HBO)
- 2012 Supporting Characters (supporting)
- 2012 Wedding Tales (supporting)
- 2012 Gayby (supporting)
- 2012 Widsom Teeth (principal)
- 2012 Good Night (supporting)
- 2012 The Third Day (supporting)
- 2012 Marvin, Seth and Stanley (principal)
