About
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 and APTN.
Most recently, Asia directed Surviving the Silence: The Roxane Gay Story (2026) for Lifetime, an adaptation of the author’s New York Times bestseller “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body”, executive produced by Roxane Gay and Suzanne Todd. She also directed the first season of Racing Waters (2026) for APTN and is currently in production on Season Two. Previously, she served as second unit director on Ally Pankiw’s “Black Mirror” Season 7 episode Common People (2025) for Netflix, and co-directed and executive produced ESPN’s “30 for 30” documentary I’m Just Here for the Riot (2023).
Her latest short film, Delta Dawn (2024), premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival and had its U.S. premiere at DOC NYC. The film won the Oscar-qualifying Betty Youson Award for Best Canadian Documentary Short at Hot Docs in 2025. Her previous shorts include N’xaxaitk’w (2022) and This Ink Runs Deep (2019), both of which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. N’xaxaitk’w also received the DGC BC Emerging Greenlight Award.
As a writer, Asia wrote her first spec script in 2020, which led to a blind television development deal with eOne/Lionsgate. Asia is currently developing an original series with Taika Waititi’s Waititi Productions.
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.