Ashley York
Ashley York is a director and film producer who 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 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.