Biography

Roxy Toporowych is an award-winning filmmaker based in NYC. Her narrative directing debut, Julia Blue, was written and directed while she was a Fulbright Scholar living in Ukraine.

Roxy has been chosen as an AFI DWW+ Fellow 2023/24. She is an IFP Narrative Lab Directing Fellow 2016 and the recipient of the IFP/ Gotham Calvin Klein 'Live the Dream' grant for emerging female directors 2016. Her film, Julia Blue was a part of Rooftop Films Works in Progress Screenings 2018 and the Seattle International Film Festival WIP Labs 2017.

Julia Blue screened in competition at the Cleveland International Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Off-Camera Film Festival, Molodist FF, Glasgow IFF, Byron Bay FF and Berkshires International Film Festival during the 2018-2019 circuit. Roxy was the winner of a Special Jury Prize for Best Director World Cinema at the Woodstock Film Festival 2018 and the Best Director Award at the Sonoma International Film Festival 2019. The film has won awards for Best Film at the Anchorage International Film Festival 2018, Julien Dubuque International Film Festival 2019 and Cambria Film Festival 2020 and Best Foreign Film at the Female Eye Festival, 2019. In 2020 the film was distributed by MeGogo and is available on Amazon in the US and UK. In 2022, it was named one of the top ten best films about Ukraine streaming by The Guardian UK.

Roxy was a semi-finalist for the Shondaland Women Directing Mentorship 2020, SeriesFest 2021 and Almanack Writers Lab 2022. Roxy is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and her work is heavily influenced by her Ukrainian-American diaspora upbringing.

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