Asia Youngman
British Columbia
Asia Youngman is an award-winning Indigenous (Cree-Métis) director and screenwriter working across scripted and documentary. She has directed projects for Netflix, ESPN, Lifetime, PBS, History Channel, CBC, Bell Media, TVO, APTN, and Telus.
Most recently, she served as second unit director on the Black Mirror Season 7 episode COMMON PEOPLE (2025) for Netflix. She also co-directed and executive produced ESPN’s “30 for 30” documentary I’M JUST HERE FOR THE RIOT (2023), now streaming on ESPN+.
Her latest short, DELTA DAWN (2024), premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival, had its U.S. premiere at DOC NYC, and won the Oscar-qualifying Betty Youson Award for Best Canadian Documentary Short at Hot Docs in 2025. Previous short films include N’XAXAITKW (2022) and THIS INK RUNS DEEP (2019), both of which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Named one of Playback’s “10 to Watch,” Asia is an alumna of the TIFF Writers’ Studio, TIFF Filmmaker Lab, TIFF Talent Accelerator, the CHANEL Women Creators’ Network, the Canadian Academy Directors Program for Women, and Berlinale’s DocSalon Toolbox Programme. She is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada and the Writers Guild of Canada.
Asia is represented by The Gersh Agency in Los Angeles and Pacific Artists Management in Vancouver. Additionally, she is the owner of Visceral Village Productions, which she founded in 2019.
Carmen Bonnici (Manager) - carmen@pacificartists.com
Sandra Lucchesi (Film Literary) - slucchesi@gersh.com
Katy McCaffrey (TV Literary) - kmcaffrey@gersh.com
Awards
Main Reel
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N'xaxaitkw
Dates: 2022
Link: IMDB
Roles: Director, Writer
Type: Short
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Coming of Age
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30 for 30
Episodes: I'm Just Here for the Riot
Dates: 2023
Link: IMDB
Roles: Co-Director, Executive Producer
Studio / Network: Disney
Type: Documentary Series
Genre: Documentary, Sports, Historical
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Black Mirror
Episodes: Common People
Dates: 2025
Link: IMDB
Role: Second Unit Director
Studio / Network: Netflix
Type: One-hour episodic (TV/SVOD)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
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The Hillsdale Adoption Scam
Dates: 2023
Link: IMDB
Role: Director
Studio / Network: Lifetime, A&E
Type: TV Movie/Long Form/SVOD
Genre: Thriller
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Odd Squad
Episodes: Party Crashers
Dates: 2022
Link: IMDB
Role: Director
Studio / Network: TVO, PBS
Type: Half-hour episodic (TV/SVOD)
Genre: Youth, Family
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