Asmaa Chemkhi

Bio

Asmaa is a diaspora artist who resides in her beloved Tunis & misses NYC

Education

BA, Communications & Media Studies / Minor in Film Studies

California State University, Northridge

Inclusive Practice & Training Methodology Certification — Exceptional Individuals, 2025

Film — Director

Blue Day — Dir. Asmaa Chemkhi. in post, 2025

Worship Wash — Co-Dir. / DP, Asmaa Chemkhi. in post, 2025

Film — Actor

Blue Day — Dir. Asmaa Chemkhi. in post, 2025

Seize the Day — Dir. Omar Al-Fotihi. in post, 2025

→ acting reel

Film & Television

Director's Assistant to Ziad Doueiri — La Famille — Netflix, BBC Studios. Paris, 2025

Costume / Wardrobe Key Assistant to Emily Costantino — New York, 2025

1st AC — Make Them Proud — Short. Cool S Films, 2024

2nd AC — Alt White — Music Video, 2024

Production Assistant — SNL — Television, 2024

Production Assistant — Caught Stealing — Feature, 2024

Production Assistant — Travel Guides — Television, 2024

Production Assistant — Moments of Youth — Feature, 2022

Video Production Consultant — Half Moon Radio. New York, 2023

Theatre

Stage Manager — Denmark — Brooklyn Centre for Theatre Research, 2024

Events & Communications

SM Strategist & Communications Lead — Strother School of Radical Attention. New York, 2025

Program Collaborator — Baby Cobra Studio. New York, 2025

Organizer — The People's Forum. New York, 2023–2025

Writing

bitofrab — Substack

"Pearl?" — Bardics Anonymous, November 2024

Editor, Sand Canyon Review Literary Magazine — California, 2017–2019

this is where you can get a deep dive into all of my artistic endeavors and a glimpse of who i might be. expression is a vital necessity of the human experience. i have struggled against my natural instincts in that expression, so, given that, i am filled with joy that there is now a space that holds it all so openly. hope something here resonates!

Asmaa (S'ma) Chemkhi

thinker, writer, wanderer, wild woman.

bitofrab — Substack