Profile

Asha Achy Joseph is a film, television, new media content maker, and practice-based researcher. She started as a documentary filmmaker winning Indian Panorama Selection for her first documentary in 16mm on Christian Women’s Inheritance rights ‘Anyar’ (The Outsiders) in IFFI 1998, Delhi. Early on, after her masters in Communication studies in Pune, she worked for Doordarshan’s legendary cultural magazine ‘Surabhi’ produced by Cinema Vision India, Mumbai.  Back in Kerala, for the next decade she worked as programme producer in satellite TV channels Asianet and Indiavision. Asha prioritised women and children’s programming and produced the country’s first women’s travelling talkshow ‘Akathalam’ (The Inner Space) which went on air for 10 years. Her children’s program ‘Changathikkoottam’ was awarded the best children’s programme by gevernment of Kerala in 1999. She was chosen as the only south indian scholar for Chevening scholarship (Broadcast Journalist scholarship) of UK government in 2002. As part of the Chevening programme she worked with Children’s Television in Swansea, Wales.  She completed her doctoral studies in Television audience research involving undergraduate students from Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala at Savitribai Phule Pune University. She has been a researcher at various national institutions including  UGC, wrote articles, worked on scripting, translation and subtitles for films, translated and edited books related to Cinema, taught visual language, scripting, film analysis, art history and television production along with making fiction as well as non fiction film and TV content. She has worked as a member of the direction team of well known film makers Lal Jose and Mohan Raghavan. From 2012 till 2024 she was head and dean of SH School of Communication at Sacred Heart Autonomous college in Thevara, Kochi. She has been chair of boards of studies at various autonomous colleges, member of board of examiners at universities. She has also worked as festival director and been part of national and international jury of film festivals throughout the last decade. Her short fiction Ore Udal (One Body) in 2015 has been selected to Indian Panorama at IFFI apart from 15 international film festivals. Her debut feature film ‘Palama: Do you see me?’ (Malayalam, 2025) is produced by Mankind Cinemas and Symmetry Cinemas (Producers of ‘Great Indian Kitchen’) and presented by well known director Jeo Baby. She is the founder member of Women in Cinema Collective (WCC).