Joshua Ashish Dawson

Joshua Ashish Dawson is a film director & designer based in Los Angeles, California.

Career

Dawson received a Master's in Advanced Architectural Studies from the University of Southern California. He was trained under Balkrishna Doshi and Hollywood production designer Alex McDowell.
Joshua focuses on the potential impact of ecological devastation in the physical world.
In 2016, his Master’s thesis project, Cáustico, was a 4-minute short film that used matte paintings and archival news footage to explore the issue of water privatization. It screened at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra as a finalist in the AnthropoScene short film competition. In 2019 "Loa's Promise" his directorial debut, at the Cinequest Film Festival won the Jury prize for best Horror, Thriller, Sci-fi Short film. In 2020, he released "Denervation", a short film based on the perils of pharmaceutical counterfeiting.
In 2022 he released a 3-minute film titled "Spa Sybarite" which takes the form of a fictional ad about a "wellness spa in which users are offered treatments in response to the planet’s degrading environmental conditions."