M. Asli Dukan is a producer, director and editor from New York City. She graduated from The City University of New York with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Media and Communication Arts in 1999 where she received the best editing award for her thesis film, “Sleeping on a train in Motion.” Her media works have screened at the Blowin' Up A Spot Film Festival and M.A.L.I. Women’s Film and Performing Arts Conference in Texas, Citivisions and the Imagenation Film & Music Festival in New York, the Black to the Future Science Fiction Festival and the Langston Hughes Film Festival, both in Seattle and on Move the Frame, a video dance television program based in New York City. She has been nominated for the Renew Media grant twice and received the Urban Artist Initiative Grant in 2009 in New York City. In 2000, she founded Mizan Media Productions to produce short and feature length SF films and music videos. She has produced and directed several music videos, including “Boot” for Tamar-kali and “Do You Mind” for Hanifah Walidah, which debuted on LOGO in 2008. She is in post-production on the feature length documentary, “Invisible Universe” which explores the history of African American images in fantasy, horror and science fiction literature and film and is in development on the feature length horror film, “Skin Folk” based on the book by award winning SF writer, Nalo Hopkinson.