Asseem Merchant
Asseem Merchant is known for Sooryavanshi (2021), Wanted (2009) and TFTNW (2022).
Assefa Zerihun Gudeta
Assefa Zerihun Gudeta is an actor, known for Fortuna (2018).
Assen Blatechki
Assen Blatechky is a Bulgarian artist. He was born on March 22, 1971 in Sofia, Bulgaria. An actor, fascinated by painting and sports. Practiced swimming, soccer, rowing, handball. In four consecutive years (from 1989 to 1992) was the champion of Bulgaria, Federation of Traditional Karate. All that remains in the past, because in 1992 he applied for and was accepted at the National Theatre Academy, where he studied in the acting at the class of Prof. Stefan Danailov. He graduated in 1996, but even as a student he took part in theater productions with roles in Measure for Measure, crazy love, Lazaritza, intruders. No lag and screen incarnations. He has been filmed in a number of Bulgarian and foreign productions. Bulgarian audience knows him best for his roles in the movies Profits After the end of the world, Mila from Mars, Monkeys in Winter, and the TV series Sea salt, Glass home.
Assen Gadjalov
Assen Gadjalov is known for Death Note (2017), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) and Countdown (2016).
Assen Vukushev
Assen Vukushev is known for Apocalypse Pompeii (2014).
Asser Yassin
With a Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the American University in Cairo Asser chose to follow his true calling and passion and pursue a career in acting. Mere serendipity revealed his talent and infatuation for acting when he was casted for a university play to replace an actor and so it all began and destiny took its course. Throughout his acting marathon Asser has been part of many reputable plays and starred in many short films such as the controversial and highly praised "Beit Men Lahm" directed by Ramy Abdel Jabbar. Director Khairy Bishara entrusted him with a role in "Qalb Habiba" (Habiba's Heart), the TV series that celebrated screen legend Suheir El Bably's comeback and that marked a beginning in Asser's serious acting career. Shortly, his cinema debut followed with small roles in box office hit "Omaret Yacoubian" (The Yacoubian Building) and the acclaimed "Haleem". With increasing exposure and continuous hard work Asser landed some highly applauded supporting roles such as Marei, the villain brother to Ashraf Abdel Baki, in "Ala Ganb Yasta" (Pull up Driver) and as Mo, the drug addict, in "Zay El Naharda" (On a Day Like Today), which unmistakably drew the attention on him as a versatile acting talent predestined for more to come. His first leading role alongside the great Mahmoud Yassin in the action film "Al Waad" (The Promise) written by none other than Waheed Hamid and directed by Mohamed Yassin gave Asser the chance to prove his skill and establish himself as a serious actor in the Egyptian film industry. With his latest release "Rasayel El Bahr" (Messages from the Sea) written and directed by Daoud Abdel Sayed, one of Egypt's most acclaimed filmmakers, Asser catapulted himself into totally new spheres within the film scene. In addition to being Dawood Abdel Sayed's comeback after almost a decade since his last film, it has been praised as one of the best motion pictures and received several awards at international film festivals. 2015 proved to be a big year for Asser. His movie Aswar El Qamar finally hits the screens after a 4 year delay. The movie is directed by Tarek El Erian, and starring Mona Zaki and Amr Saad. Asser won best actor for his role in the movie in the Tetouan International Mediterranean Film Festival. In addition to that, Asser Yassin starring in 2 of the largest TV productions of the year, El Ahd, produced by Tarek El Ganainy, and 1001 Arabian Nights produced by Synergy Art Production. His new movie "Men Dahr Rageil" directed by Karim El Sobki is planned to screen in September 2015.
Asset Imangaliev
Asset Imangaliev is an actor, known for Sulayman too (2017), Surprise! 12 Filme von Veit Helmer (2006) and Hundeleben (2005).
Asshu Trikha
There was a strange crossroad in the early days of life when his father laid down a condition, "you continue playing with your friends or you work in films." Ashuu loved sports and spending time with his friends. It was a near impossible choice to make. But one has to guess that he loved films over anything. So just after his tenth standard, Ashuu started working in the film industry, learning the ropes of the trade. The year was 1978! One thing that Ashuu did not stop doing was studying. He graduated as an Electronics Engineer from Bombay University, after having finished his diploma in Electronics and Radio Engineering. He graduated in 1988. By this time his exposure of the technicalities of the film industry had taught him enough to foray into making educational films for engineering students. He used animations to explain the theories of engineering where the Z-axis was simpler to visualise than imagine. He got immediate success with it. Being the only one in the country making such educational films of high quality he had got exposed him to the world of animations. Animations was an extremely expensive affair to contract out. This is where his educational background helped him. He bought animation systems to support his educational films. The only impediment was that this form of films for educational purposes was extremely cash intensive. Income was trickling in through sales. Coming from a humble background, Ashuu was quick to understand that this business model was not sustainable. He immediately diversified into making technical films for leading corporates houses. This organically led him to making advertising films, and so began his journey of making television commercials. Having produced and directed almost 350 commercials, his run into the Bollywood industry was quite accidental. N R Pachisia was making his film called Ziddi. He wanted someone to think out of the box to promote his film. A mutual friend introduced Ashuu to Mr Pachisia. Out of this association was born a first of its kind promotional campaign for Ziddi. The unique feature was that the promo was made in English although the film was in Hindi. The moment the promo hit the networks, it took the nation and the industry by storm. Ashuu was now recognised as the wiz kid of Bolywood. There was no looking back. He then promoted more than 90 films which had record openings at the box office. His success ratio was more than 90%. A producer friend's wife once joked saying, "maybe the producer's should give you some percentage of the business that the films made because of your ingenuine marketing ploys." Having come from an advertising background, Ashuu understood the significance of air time and the value or rotation of the spots on air for recall. So, not only did Ashuu pioneer the business of promos in the industry, he also gave birth to the idea of 5 second, 10 second, 20 second spots besides countdown to release dates and audience reactions to the films. The business was booming. The producers that he interacted with respected his perception of the trade and his understanding of the nuances of film making, right from scripting to final film mixing. His educational films and TVCs had given him a rich exposure to the use of computer graphics and animations. Moving on to digital titling and VFX was just a natural thing to do. Thus came the next pioneering effort of lending digital VFX and titling to an industry that was simply analog in nature. Ashuu not only did promotions of films, he was also heavily involved with the creative aspects of a full length feature films by now, along with the digital side of film making. His life took a turn when he got the opportunity to direct his first feature film called 'Deewaanapan' for Puja films. Both the lead actors won debut awards for this film. The film was also nominated for action following which Ashuu has directed a number of films. He was nominated for breakthrough director award for his film Baabarr, and best visual effects for his film Alag. His directorial film, Sheesha had a song, "Yaar ko maine..." which was nominated for best song of the year. Besides directing well accepted films, Ashuu has also produced a film based on the coal mafia of the country called Koyelaanchal. He has also written scripts for a number of his films and acted in a couple of them. He has rubbed shoulders with many legends of the business, both in front of the camera and behind to bring in the finer points of story telling. He has also found a way to share his film making experiences through his blog called film curry. He publishes his blogs once a week. Married to Samriti Trikha in 1990, Ashuu Trikha has two children, a son Anmol Trikha and a younger daughter, Akshita Trikha. He has two siblings, a brother, Sonu Trikha & a sister, Rachita Mawani.
Assi Yitzchaki
Assi Yitzchaki is an actor, known for Once I Was (2010).
Assia Boundaoui
Assia Boundaoui is an Algerian-American filmmaker, writer and investigative journalist. Her debut short film about *hijabi* hair salons for the HBO Documentary Films the "LENNY" series premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Her award-winning feature-length directorial debut, THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED a documentary investigating a decade of FBI surveillance in Assia's Muslim-American community, had its world premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, won the jury prize for Best Documentary at the Woodstock Film Festival and was nationally broadcast on PBS "POV" in 2019. Assia was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film" and her work has been the recipient of support from the Ford Foundation JustFilms, International Documentary Association, San Francisco Film Society, Impact Partners and Firelight Media and FRONTLINE among others. Assia was a 2019 New America National Fellow and in 2020 was honored to be the recipient of the Livingston Award for national reporting. She is currently a Ford Foundation JustFilms fellow hosted at the MIT Open Documentary Lab Co-Creation Studio where she is iterating a co-created, AI fueled sequel to her film: the Inverse Surveillance Project. She has an M.A. in journalism from New York University and is an Algiers born, Arabic speaking Chicagoan currently based in Southern California.
