Asia Youngman is a

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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, Kirsten Carthew, Alicia K. Harris, Allison White, Tiffany Hsiung, Halima Ouardiri, and Kristina Wagenbauer. In the same year Youngman and Trevor Mack 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

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

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. The film premiered at the 2023

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. In 2025 Youngman won the

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at the

for her short film ''Delta Dawn''.Matthew Carey
"Hot Docs Announces Prizes: Awards Go To ‘I, Poppy,’ ‘River Of Grass,’ ‘Paul,’ ‘Khartoum’ And More"
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'', May 2, 2025. 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 women Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian women documentary filmmakers {{Canada-film-director-stub