In 2005, Asa directed two films for French TV - Little Italy: Wiseguys, Bullets, Backrooms is a docu-fiction based on the Soundwalk audio tours of the mythic mafia neighborhood of New York.
[10] Additionally, Asa presented a diptych of “film portraits” on the writers Suketu Mehta (Pulitzer Prize Nominee) and Pavan Varma (author of Being Indian) in the same exhibition.
[11] The exhibit entitled Combat pour la vie / Struggle for Life consists of a series of original photographs bearing witness to James Nachtwey’s work in Siberia, Asia and Africa, and to initiatives in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases.
Asa Mader directed the music video "Violet Hill",[12] the first single of Coldplay's album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends.
[19] Asa Mader's more recent collaboration with Benjamin Millepied resulted in the short film Time Doesn't Stand Still, starring Léa Seydoux.
[26] In 2014, Asa Mader teamed up with filmmakers Arthur Jafa and Kahlil Joseph to produce the feature-length documentary Dreams Are Colder Than Death,[27] a haunted cinematic meditation on the question: "what does it mean to be black in America in the 21st century?"