Asia Khmelova is a Ukrainian filmmaker based in the US, alumna of NYU Tisch School of the Arts grad film program, where she was a TSOA Masters Film Future Fund Scholarship Fellow and Maurice Kanbar Scholar. Her films have been featured at international film festivals, and her screenplays received multiple prestigious writing awards.

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Asia's focus as a director is making character driven narratives and cross genre stories come to life. Her work is very visual, she pays a lot of attention to the aesthetics and tone. She’s heavily influenced by independent cinema. Asia’s documentary background shaped her attention to detail and her sensibility as a director.