Alex Karpovsky’s first feature-length film, The Hole Story, was completed in 2006. Described by Indiewire as “Amazing: smart, hilarious and surprisingly profound,” the existential black comedy earned Alex a slot in Filmmaker Magazine’s annual “25 New Faces of Independent Film”. Alex’s award-winning follow-up, Woodpecker, premiered at the 2008 South by Southwest Film Festival and was released by Carnivalesque Films. Alex's most recent film, Trust Us, This Is All Made Up, premiered at the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival and will be released by B-Side Entertainment in February of 2010. Also acting, Alex recently played the male lead in Beeswax, a new film by Andrew Bujalski which premiered at the 2009 Berlin Int'l Film Festival; the voices of several Russian gangsters in Grand Theft Auto IV; Mean Man Mike in Robert Byington's Harmony and Me, which premiered at the 2009 New Directors/New Films, Paul Lucas in Bryan Poyser's Lovers of Hate, which will premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and Vlad in Linas Phillips' Bass Ackwards, which will also premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.