Asia Youngman is a Cree- Métis filmmaker from

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. In 2017 she released her debut short documentary film ''Lelum, which won the award for Best Documentary Short at the 2017

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. In 2018, she was one of eight women filmmakers selected for the

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's Apprenticeship for Women Directors program, alongside

Kathleen Hepburn Kathleen Hepburn is a Canadian screenwriter and film director. She first attracted acclaim for her film ''Never Steady, Never Still'', which premiered as a short film in 2015 before being expanded into her feature film debut in 2017.

, Kirsten Carthew, Alicia K. Harris, Allison White,

Tiffany Hsiung Tiffany Hsiung is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. She is most noted for her 2016 documentary film '' The Apology'', which won a Peabody Award in 2019, and her 2020 short documentary film ''Sing Me a Lullaby'', which won the Share Her Journey aw ...

Halima Ouardiri Halima Ouardiri is a Swiss-Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter.Ismaël Houdassine"Une vie de chien avec « Clebs » de Halima Ouardiri" Radio Canada International, February 21, 2020. Career Ouardiri first garnered acclaim for her ...

, and

Kristina Wagenbauer Kristina Wagenbauer is a Canadian film director and screenwriter based in Montreal, Quebec. She is most noted for her 2017 feature film '' Sashinka'', for which she was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Casting at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019, ...

. In the same year Youngman and

Trevor Mack Trevor Mack (born June 28, 1992) is a Tsilhqot'in Canadian filmmaker, writer, philosopher and former Crashed Ice extreme sports athlete. He is best known for writing, directing, and producing the feature-film '' Portraits from a Fire'', along w ...

collaborated on the short documentary ''In the Valley of Wild Horses''. in 2019 Youngman released the short documentary ''This Ink Runs Deep'', about indigenous

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ing traditions."This Ink Runs Deep: How Indigenous artists 'stitch themselves back together' with ancestral tattooing"

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, October 4, 2019. It won the award for Best Short Documentary at the 2019

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. In 2021 she released ''Hatha'', her first narrative short film, and followed up in 2022 with ''N'xaxaitkw''. In 2023, Youngman and

Kathleen Jayme Kathleen Jayme is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Vancouver, British Columbia. She is most noted for the films '' Finding Big Country'' and ''The Grizzlie Truth'', which examine the history of the ill-fated Vancouver Grizzlies of the Nationa ...

collaborated on '' I'm Just Here for the Riot'', a feature documentary about the

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. The film premiered at the 2023 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Youngman has also directed episodes of the television series ''

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'', '' Odd Squad Mobile Unit'' and ''Amplify'', and the television film ''The Hillsdale Adoption Scam''.

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* Canadian documentary film directors Canadian women film directors Canadian television directors Canadian women television directors Film directors from British Columbia First Nations filmmakers Cree people Canadian Métis people Iroquois people Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian women documentary filmmakers {{Canada-film-director-stub