Ashton Avila directing on the set of "Tip Your Fucking Bartender".
Photo by @KPstills
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Ashton Avila (she/her) is a queer Mexican American writer-director who grew up in Los Angeles, California. After falling in love with film as a child, she went on to receive her BA in Film Media and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Rhode Island and her MFA in Directing at Chapman University. Since graduating, Ashton has shadowed directors David O. Russell, Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum and Martha Coolidge. She has been mentored by David S. Ward, Anne Beatts, Colleen Camp, Carl Ellsworth and many others. Her background includes work in production, casting, development and education. Ashton most recently directed the pilot Bloodlines for TalesVision and is slated to direct season 2 of Here TV's series Guys Like You. In the past she has directed for Sony PlayStation and many independent award winning short films. In addition, she has second unit directed for AwesomenessTV, BratTV and Shadow Lion. Ashton is a NALIP Emerging Creator, has placed as a quarterfinalist for NBC's Emerging Director Program, Final Draft's Big Break Competition, The Script Lab's Screenwriting Competition, Stage 32's Television Writing Contest, ScreenCraft's Pilot Launch, was selected for the NHMC's Latinx Stream Showcase and was welcomed into Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Imagine Impact Community. Recently, her feature film screenplay All Your'n (co-written with Lesette Maxwell) spent a month trending on The Black List. Ashton currently has scripts in development with Roth Kirschenbaum Films. In her spare time she enjoys teaching, watching sappy rom coms, greeting pit bulls during their walks, autumn in New England, listening to Taylor Swift break up songs, Halloween, musicals and making tamales with her family at Christmas. |