Profile Details
- Country: Canada
- Province/State: Ontario
- City: Toronto
- How do you Identify?: Woman
- Field of Work: Fiction/Scripted and Documentary
- Union: Non-Union
- Interested In: TV Writing Room, Directing TV For Hire, Directing Film/Digital for Hire, Directing Music Videos/Commercials, and Developing my own Film/TV/Digital Material
- Contact Information: contact@luasfaha.com
- Link: https://www.luasfaha.com/
Bio
Lu Asfaha is a Toronto storyteller and award winning filmmaker. Her films explore belonging, identity and how things fall apart and her work has screened from Toronto to Berlin. Most recently she has written and directed the short documentary Freedom Summer, about a Black Lives Matter summer camp, which came out on CBC Gem in 2018, and the award winning dark fantasy short Paladin. She was on the post production team for CBC POV’s 2019 documentary Mr. Jane and Finch and was honoured to be a Doc Accelerator Fellow at Hot Docs 2019.