Ashley York
Creative Producer @Culture House Media
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WORK HISTORY
Creative Producer @Culture House Media
Los Angeles, CA, US
In my role as a creative producer, I am a key player in the development and production of a new important documentary film about motherhood.My role relies on the following skills:* Exhibiting strong leadership, emotional intelligence, and business acumen in order to bring multiple departments together to accomplish a complex objective* Crafting and maintaining project-relevant documentation: proposals, scopes of work, production schedules, budgets, cross-functional creative socialization and outlines for scaling beyond the innovation phase* Managing and supervising project meetings and timelines (i.e. production kick-off, weekly creative tactical, key creative reviews and milestones) related to the development of creative* Managing the relationship and work, including onboarding, of creative freelancers, vendors, agencies, and contractors* Consistently connecting the dots between people, teams, strategies, and initiatives
EDUCATION
University of Kentucky
BA, Journalism
University of Southern California
MFA, School of Cinematic Arts
SKILLS
ABOUT ASHLEY YORK
Ashley York is a director and film producer who is interested in documentaries, unscripted media, and cinematic journalism. She is committed to a feminist approach and has worked on Academy Award®-winning teams and on projects that have won top honors and premiered at the Sundance, Los Angeles, Berlin, and SXSW film festivals, as well as on Apple, Netflix, A&E, National Geographic, HBO, and the Sundance Channel. Her most recent film,\"Hillbilly,\" won the Grand Jury prize for Best Documentary at the 2018 Los Angeles Film Festival, a London Foreign Press Association Award, and a Michael Moore Founders Award for Best Documentary at the Traverse City Film Festival. She directed and produced the Netflix Original Documentary \"Tig,\" an Official Selection of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, IDFA, the Istanbul Independent Documentary Festival, and Outfest. Ashley\'s work has been recognized for its commitment to highlighting women and girls and received an Emmy Award nomination in the category of New Approaches to News and Documentary Film as well as the prestigious Governors\' Award from the Academy of Arts & Sciences. She has collaborated with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, the International Crisis Group, and the Independent Television Service. She was featured in Variety as a “filmmaker to watch” and is a frequent panelist and mentor for SXSW, Women in Film, Film Fatales, and the USC School of Cinematic Arts where she is an associate adjunct professor. She is inspired by the works of bell hooks, James Baldwin, and the late Aimé J. Ellis. Ashley lives in Los Angeles.
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