Alex Karpovsky
2021Alex 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 is set to premiere at the 2011 SXSW Film Festival.
Karpovsky also recently acted or is committed to act in the following films, set to be released later in 2011: Almost in Love, Home, Incredibly Small, The Third Day, Marvin Seth and Stanley, and Seven Chinese Brothers. This fall Karpovsky will also appear as Ray in the HBO comedy series Girls.
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The Show About the Show
Caveh Zahedi
Caveh Zahedi, Dustin Guy Defa
Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a television show whose premise is that every episode will be about the making of the previous episode. In the process of creating the show, everything can-and does-go wrong. The cast, a who's who of Brooklyn's independent filmmaking community, includes Alex Karpovsky, Eleonore Hendricks, Dustin Defa, and Onur Tukel.
The Show About the Show
Trust Us, This Is All Made Up
Alex Karpovsky
T.J. Jagodowski, David Pasquesi
Immortalized in the world of improv comedy, Second City veterans TJ Jagodowksi and David Pasquesi explore the unique partnership and transcendental forces that govern their legendary performances.
Trust Us, This Is All Made Up
Incredibly Small
Dean Peterson
Stephen Gurewitz, Susan Burke
Two recent college graduates, Anne, an ambitious law student and Amir, an aimless escalator attendant and aspiring sculptor move into a 300 square foot apartment and try to start a life together. But the combination of their small apartment, their threateningly handsome neighbor across the hall and unexpected visitors from the past make them realize that maybe they aren't as perfect for each other as they previously had thought.
Incredibly Small
Dinner With Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends
Jason Woliner
Dale Dickey, Gilbert Gottfried
You are cordially invited to join Brett Gelman and his Hollywood friends for a lively night of dining, tasty showbiz chit-chat, and psychological torture.
Dinner With Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends
Wuss
Clay Liford
Nate Rubin, Tony Hale
The story of a high school teacher who faces constant ridicule after he's repeatedly beaten up by several of his own students. Having nowhere else to turn, he eventually teams up with another of his students to fight back. This student, a young girl, is feared school-wide because of a dark family reputation. She also has an unfortunate nickname grafted to her due to her predilection for smoking discarded cigarettes. Bonded in battle, the student and teacher form a friendship that stretches the use of the word inappropriate.
Wuss
Actor Seeks Role
Michael Tyburski
Alex Karpovsky, Dylan Baker
An aspiring method actor (Alex Karpovsky) in New York City resorts to medical acting, a part-time gig performing the symptoms of various illnesses for student doctors. Although his talents are overlooked for traditional roles on stage and screen, they catch the attention of a medical instructor (Dylan Baker) with a flair for the theatric.
Actor Seeks Role
Woodpecker
Alex Karpovsky
Jon Hyrns
Fanatical birdwatchers have descended upon a small town in the Arkansas bayou in hopes of finding the celebrated Ivory Billed Woodpecker. Declared extinct in the 1940’s, the bird has apparently been spotted by numerous experts. Enter amateur birder and poet Johnny Neander, who has convinced his taciturn sidekick that he will be the one to find the elusive woodpecker. The ensuing chaos divides the small town between believers and non-believers, rabid environmentalists and opportunistic entrepreneurs. Much like the bird itself, Woodpecker explores the intersection of fact and fiction, manipulating our notions of documentary and narrative techniques within a tragic comedy about hope, perception, and some very very strange birds.
Woodpecker
