Elcid Asaei

Elcid is a transcultural and visually driven writer, director and editor. Elcid's body of work reflects bold and thought-provoking stories across political and socially oriented subject matters. He holds an MA in Film Theory from University College London (UCL), and has worked across film, television and journalism. His background in photography and print reportage and passion for visual storytelling led the way towards his filmmaking début with the award-winning short documentary, 'Revolutionary Roads', which enjoyed major festival successes and went on to win the Current TV Short Cuts prize. Since then, Elcid set up his independent production label Crimson Black Productions, and has gone on to create several visually striking, provocative and poetic short films like 'Piranha', 'Unskin' and 'Lost for Words', as a prelude to his current film projects in development. Additionally, in response to the COVID-19 lockdowns, Elcid showed great initiative in creating a global community arts video platform for creatives to share their voices with the arts community, titled 'We Are Not Alone', which has shaped up to be a historical and cultural record of the crisis and how it impacted the arts.