Oksana Mikhailovna Karas Russian ?????? ?????????? ????? born 19 June 1979 Kharkov is a Ukrainian filmmaker television director screenwriter and editor who works in Russia In the past she was a television host and journalist Karas is best known for the film The Good Boy which won the Grand Prix of the 27th Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr 2017 Despite the fact that she was born in Ukrainian SSR her childhood was spent in Kazakhstan in the city of Aktau formerly Shevchenko In 2004 she graduated from the Peoples Friendship University of Russia RUDN faculty of law In 2009 she graduated from VGIK workshop Of V ya Lonsky Since 1998 she has worked on television as a presenter correspondent sports commentator film reviewer author and director of documentaries NTV channels NTVPlus Sport VGTRK Kultura In 2008 as a director she released the TV series Detective Brothers and also wrote the script and directed the short film Casting which received the Grand Prix Of the International Festival Unprecedented cinema in Estonia The first fulllength film The Rehearsals removed in 2013 She also acted as a script writer for the project In the same year as a director Karas worked on the TV series Missing Persons and the film Princess Muay Thai In 2015 she wrote the script for the Comedy Not a Wedding Trip In 2016 The Good Boy was released on which Karas worked as a director screenwriter and editor The film received the Grand Prix of the 27th Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr won the audience vote organized by the portal Kinopoisk during the Kinotavr and also earned the Golden Rook for the third place in the audience competition Vyborg Account within the 24th Festival of Russian Cinema Window to Europe Further Karas participates in the work on the short film Just Like Grown Ups as a screenwriter and director as well as on the TV series and the film of the same name Neophyte In 2018 she released the film Ailing Angel again with Semyon Treskunov in the title role In June 2019 the premiere of her film High Above took place the shooting process of which took place in 2018 In 2020 the feature film Doctor Liza dedicated to the life of Elizabeth Glinka became a participant at the main competition of Kinotavr