Elcid Asaei

Elcid is a visually driven director, editor and writer, based in London. He holds an MA in Film Theory from University College London (UCL), and has worked across film, television and journalism. His background in 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 a number of visually striking, provocative and poetic short films like 'Piranha', 'Unskin' and 'Lost for Words', as a prelude to his current feature-length film project in development. In response to the Covid-19 lock-downs, Elcid showed great initiative in creating a global community arts video platform for creatives to share their voices with each other, called 'We Are Not Alone', which has shaped up to be a historical and cultural record of the crisis and how it impacted the arts.