ABOUT

Asavari is a Filmmaker & Multidisciplinary Artist from New Delhi, India currently based in Los Angeles.

She owns and operates the studio Supernova Design through which she creates commercial and personal projects while collaborating with POC and women artists. Select clients include - Warner Bros., Google, YouTube, Headspace & Disney

Asavari’s award-winning films, new media work, and graphic narratives have been showcased at numerous festivals and exhibition spaces. Select showings include the Los Angeles Zine Fest, Ottawa International Animation Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival & the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Her projects have also been featured in Adobe Create Magazine, Cartoon Brew, AWN, and Animation Reporter Magazine. Drawn to cross-cultural narratives, Asavari uses character-driven storytelling to parse her evolving cultural and political identity. Through her body of work, she hopes to generate a discourse surrounding ideas of ‘identity’ and ‘belonging’ and find where her own narratives intersect with those around her. Asavari holds a BFA in Animation Film Design from the National Institute of Design, and an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts. She is a former artist in residence for Adobe Aero and is currently in development on her first animated feature. She divides her time between her creative practice at Supernova and teaching at the animation program at California State University, Long Beach.