Ophelia Harutyunyan is an Armenian filmmaker with a combined fiction and documentary background, currently based out of Brooklyn, NY. Most recently, she
directed the short fiction film “It Takes a Village” (France Televisions) about the lives of women living in an Armenian village where there are no men. In 2020 she, alongside Alex Gibney and Suzanne Hillinger, directed and produced the documentary Totally Under Control (NEON, Hulu) about the Trump administration’s failed response to the Covid-19 pandemic. She produced Crazy, Not Insane, a documentary feature directed by Alex Gibney, about psychiatry of killing, which premiered at Venice Film Festival. Her films have played at other notable film festivals like Sundance, TIFF, SXSW, IDFA, AFI etc. She’s a graduate of Columbia University’s Film MFA program and an alumna of Berlinale Talents.