Alia Azamat Ashkenazi

BIOGRAPHIE

Born in Uzbekistan and raised in Russia, Alia Azamat Ashkenazi is a published Poet turned Award-Winning Filmmaker. Alia is a recipient of two United Nations Medals for the “Heart to Heart” and “We Live Dreaming of Peace” screenplays. In two consecutive years at the United Nations Arts Festival, Alia won Best Mixed-Arts Project Award for her multimedia play "Michael Jackson: Peacemaking" and Best Film and Best Director for "Sadako," a short docu-film about Sadako Sasaki - one of the most widely known victims of Hiroshima nuclear attack remembered through the story of one thousand origami cranes she folded before her death. Alia co-directed atmosphere scenes for and co-wrote a feature documentary "Misha," that explores a life of the first Korean to make the USSR Olympic Soccer team Mikhail An who died in a plane crash in 1979 with his whole football club from Tashkent. The film's cinematographer is House of Cards' and Fargo's Pete Konczal, and it is narrated by Dead To Me's Keong Sim. Since moving to US in 2014, Alia Script Supervised more than seventy narrative and commercial projects and optioned out two feature film screenplays. She is now developing a political drama with The Deuce's Margarita Levieva. Alia's narrative directing debut "Esther's Choice" stars Francois Arnaud, Emma Orelove and Mary Leest.

FILMOGRAPHIE