Biography
Ashley is an award-winning director, producer and photographer with over two decades of experience. His work includes films, visual art, theatre productions, commercial and experimental video across and outside of the UK. Ashley is captivated by stories about human experiences and the exploring of community, being socially engaging, and internationally-minded. He is known for the 2023 Grierson Awards shortlisted and BFI Doc Society funded & hybrid film #BlackBoyJoyGone, the feature theatre film and documentary of Geraldine Connorʼs masterpiece Carnival Messiah, debuted at the Leeds International Film Festival and won the Peopleʼs Choice Award for Best Documentary at the Trinidad Film Festival. He is also the first black portrait photographer commissioned for thepermanent collection of the stately home of Harewood House, with the series called Missing Portraits, featuring Arthur France MBE and David Harewood OBE.
2022-24 mark the release of 8 short films, touring theatre shows and art project. These range from the SKY Arts / Leeds 2023 / The Space commissioned short Moon Palace – A Stargazers Journey, the multi award-winning ACE funded dance theatre film DISPLACED,Sadlers Wellsfunded Afro-Magical film NEGUS, Journey's Festival - ArtReach funded refugee dance and animation film Reckoning, Serendipity's documentary Siren Calls: To An Illusive Journey, the South Asian dance-drama UnLimited Desires, Harewood House Trust funded poetic dance film Tales Of The Winter Solstice, andtouring theatres with the new live performance show and film #BlackBoyJoyGone: REALISE andalso expanding the legacy of Expression Of You, a living art project encompassing so far 400 female identifying participants.
2022-24 mark the release of 8 short films, touring theatre shows and art project. These range from the SKY Arts / Leeds 2023 / The Space commissioned short Moon Palace – A Stargazers Journey, the multi award-winning ACE funded dance theatre film DISPLACED,Sadlers Wellsfunded Afro-Magical film NEGUS, Journey's Festival - ArtReach funded refugee dance and animation film Reckoning, Serendipity's documentary Siren Calls: To An Illusive Journey, the South Asian dance-drama UnLimited Desires, Harewood House Trust funded poetic dance film Tales Of The Winter Solstice, andtouring theatres with the new live performance show and film #BlackBoyJoyGone: REALISE andalso expanding the legacy of Expression Of You, a living art project encompassing so far 400 female identifying participants.
Credits
| Future Perfect | 2 episodes | View | |||||||||||||
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| Moon Palace: A Stargazer's Journey | 1 episode | View | |||||||||||||
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| Displaced | 1 episode | View | |||||||||||||
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| #Blackboyjoygone | 1 episode | View | |||||||||||||
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| We Will Be Prisoners | 1 episode | View | |||||||||||||
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| Carnival Messiah - The Film | 1 episode | View | |||||||||||||
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| A Personal Collection... Of Vivienne Westwood Shoes | 1 episode | View | |||||||||||||
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Non-Directorial Credits
| Christmas at Harewood House | View | ||||
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Awards
Skills
- Arts
- HD
- Interactive
- Self-shooting
- Live broadcast
- Music