Ophelia Harutyunyan is a US based Armenian filmmaker. Born in the Soviet Union and raised in post-war Armenia, Ophelia has been making both documentary and fiction films for more than a decade. Her films have played at film festivals all around the world - Venice FF, Sundance, SXSW, TIFF, CPH:DOX, Tribeca, Clermont-Ferrand and distributed/broadcast by NEON, HBO, France Televisions, Amazon, Hulu. 

Most recently she wrote and directed the fiction short film It Takes A Village... (France Televisions), an Armenian-French-Belgian co-production which premiered at Clermont Ferrand IFF where it won the Grand Prix from France TV.  She directed and produced, alongside Alex Gibney and Suzanne Hillinger, the feature documentary film Totally Under Control (NEON) and she produced WISE GUY David Chase and The Sopranos (HBO) which premiered at Tribeca FF in 2024. 

She's a graduate of the Columbia University's Film MFA program and an alumna of the Berlinale Talents and Venice Biennale College Cinema programs. She speaks 3.5 languages and loves going on hikes with her dog. Her current hometown is Los Angeles, but she is in NYC often. 

She is currently in production on a two-part feature documentary for HBO and in pre-production for a fiction film funded by France Televisions and CNC.