Ashley is an award-winning director and producer based in New York. She began making films in 2009 when she joined San Francisco film collective Scary Cow and has worked in casting, directing and producing films, commercials and music videos in SF, LA and NYC. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema and The New School (NYC) with a Master of Arts in Media Studies.

Recent films directed by Ashley include female revenge horror short DIABLA, which premiered at Morbido Film Fest in 2019 and was awarded the Golden Skull for "Best Short Film" — in addition to 2017's queer coming-of-age 90s short SOMETIMES FOREVER. DIABLA has gone on to screen at many Oscar & BAFTA-qualifying film festivals, earning awards such as “Programmer’s Pick” at Adirondack Film Festival, “Best of Fest” at Boston Underground and “Best Director” at Catalina Film Festival among others. As producer, she's recently wrapped production on several films and shows including AMERICAN MORNING with Richard Schiff, ALL HAIL BETH for BRIC TV, MOUTHPIECE featuring Jason Sudeikis, Max Clark's LODESTAR starring James McCaffrey (2020 Nashville Film Festival “Audience Award for Narrative Short”) and Emily Cheeger’s HOLY WOMAN, set in Hasidic Brooklyn, which premiered at the 2020 Toronto Jewish Film Festival and earned the 1st annual Lishma Prize for Best Short.

Her work has received over 6M+ views on YouTube and premiered in Times Square. She’s currently developing feature drama PUNJABI FAMILY DINNER about a Trinidadian woman’s experience at a dinner with her new husband’s eccentric Punjabi family, alongside director Jaselle Martino and writer Jagjiwan Sohal. She is also writing her first feature film blazer — an intimate psychological horror set in rural oregon — and is set to direct upcoming action thriller volition in louisville, kentucky.

If you would like to contact her for screenings and exhibitions, or to view her private videos online, please email AMGCINEMA@GMAIL.COM.