Talent Guide
Ashley York
- Discipline:Director, Producer
- Program Year:CNN Docuseries Intensive 2021
Bio
Ashley York is a journalist and filmmaker who is committed to a feminist approach. She has worked on Academy Award®-winning teams and on projects that have won top honors at the Sundance, Los Angeles, and SXSW film festivals as well as on Apple TV+, Netflix, and HBO. Her film, Hillbilly, won a London Foreign Press Award and the Best Documentary Award at the LA Film Festival. She directed and produced the Netflix Original Documentary Tig, an Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival. Her work has been recognized for its commitment to highlighting women and girls and the lgbtq+ community.
Current Project
Dear AppalachiaLogline
Dear Appalachia is a documentary series that highlights a commonly misunderstood place within the United States.
Each episode has its own narrative arc and interweaves multiple narrative threads using cinéma vérité storytelling combined with personal interviews and archival material. Each episode will be directed and produced by filmmakers from the region in an effort to empower Appalachians to tell their own stories.