https://brianashby.film Brian Ashby Fri, 27 Aug 2021 15:09:51 +0000 https://brianashby.film en https://brianashby.film/The-Area Sun, 28 Feb 2021 19:54:07 +0000 Brian Ashby https://brianashby.film/The-Area The Area Dir. David Schalliol 2018 93min theatrical / 53min broadcastCo-editor, producer, contributing cinematographerA South Side Chicago community’s five-year fight for respect in the face of displacement. America ReFramed national PBS broadcastWTTW Chicago PBS broadcast Lisagor Award, Chicago Headline Club Festivals: Full Frame / Black Harvest / SF DocFest / Detroit Freep / Milwaukee Film Black Lens60+ screenings with community partners ︎︎︎read excerpts from community discussions Installed in Chicago Stories: Carlos Javier Ortiz and David Schalliol, Museum of Contemporary Photography 2019“A film that is both about holding onto and restoring dignity in the face of insurmountable odds… a profoundly emotional work that should be seen by all.”&nbsp;— Third Coast Review“Brings new meaning to the phrase ‘the wrong side of the tracks.'”&nbsp;— Bay Area Reporter “At its core, the film demonstrates how systemic racial and political inequalities play an active role in the devastation of communities... The healing thread, however, is the community we come to learn about in the process. By following Deborah Payne, an “Englewoodian,” homeowner, community activist, and co-producer of the documentary, we see the investment that people have in their homes, neighbors, and community... Payne’s devotion to sustaining a quality of life among her neighbors until the last house is knocked down carries an energy throughout the film that illuminates the meaning of ‘home.’” — South Side Weekly “What we see play out in this film is that... systems do what they were designed to do. That’s the insidiousness of structural racism; unless we proactively organize against it, it will condemn us to do its damage.” — Marisa Novara, Metropolitan Planning Council&nbsp; Find options to watch at&nbsp;︎︎︎www.theareafilm.com <img width="1024" height="683" width_o="1024" height_o="683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b1bc4d041a5e55a39ff57b1b7989d484d06c2d6671d7ff91ab02d50859922ce4/14233534950_397e68fd83_b.jpg" data-mid="100929612" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b1bc4d041a5e55a39ff57b1b7989d484d06c2d6671d7ff91ab02d50859922ce4/14233534950_397e68fd83_b.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3618b1424858ebca18dd52caec9fe4938625100317eb58e5d67f4e4658f5a69f/40213646_1921493774560058_6367189609301934080_o.jpg" data-mid="100929755" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3618b1424858ebca18dd52caec9fe4938625100317eb58e5d67f4e4658f5a69f/40213646_1921493774560058_6367189609301934080_o.jpg" /> <img width="1880" height="1880" width_o="1880" height_o="1880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a187b5aefdbe768bb4b1568ce72a5bfbe406e5c5e5b5ff82f89b85c943c1862c/41932673_1945576222151813_719160937633808384_o.jpg" data-mid="100930214" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a187b5aefdbe768bb4b1568ce72a5bfbe406e5c5e5b5ff82f89b85c943c1862c/41932673_1945576222151813_719160937633808384_o.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29a8e59f4846d974593275e4013ab4555c28c39e93b78f3bdc1f3a40c9546309/PXL_20210124_230744155.jpg" data-mid="100930035" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29a8e59f4846d974593275e4013ab4555c28c39e93b78f3bdc1f3a40c9546309/PXL_20210124_230744155.jpg" /> <img width="2189" height="1459" width_o="2189" height_o="1459" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23c540fe471125713c12610bb535e285b028256029b47b76427799f9bd99c654/_MG_9589.jpg" data-mid="100929744" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23c540fe471125713c12610bb535e285b028256029b47b76427799f9bd99c654/_MG_9589.jpg" /> <img width="1938" height="1266" width_o="1938" height_o="1266" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13f6f915b1fc3fbbbc6c3d8c50439cdafdfd359b8c8185cb742412322358dc44/66731046_2389202831122481_7527516895952502784_o.jpg" data-mid="100929769" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13f6f915b1fc3fbbbc6c3d8c50439cdafdfd359b8c8185cb742412322358dc44/66731046_2389202831122481_7527516895952502784_o.jpg" /> <img width="1688" height="1688" width_o="1688" height_o="1688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ff0cd503ec0d52b786e0f40a82e6beb2a4cabc7ff9893f9c93b6de44fbb1a193/155805480_3828443673865049_4795488784145136815_o.jpg" data-mid="100990365" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ff0cd503ec0d52b786e0f40a82e6beb2a4cabc7ff9893f9c93b6de44fbb1a193/155805480_3828443673865049_4795488784145136815_o.jpg" /> <img width="1135" height="1500" width_o="1135" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cdff84d0fd4166bb8d69ca8e8b4ed81bef27380881a3c7242464f3c203a5c9ab/The-Area-Theatrical-Poster-Final-c.jpg" data-mid="100930964" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cdff84d0fd4166bb8d69ca8e8b4ed81bef27380881a3c7242464f3c203a5c9ab/The-Area-Theatrical-Poster-Final-c.jpg" /> https://brianashby.film/Central-Standard-On-Education Sun, 28 Feb 2021 19:54:08 +0000 Brian Ashby https://brianashby.film/Central-Standard-On-Education Central Standard: On Education Dir. Brian Ashby &amp; Ben Kolak 2014 154min, 9 episodes Five experiences of publicly-funded education in Chicagoland:Robert / Calumet City Gina / Chicago Lawn Natalia / Humboldt Park Kyle / North Center Emma / Wilmette observed in the style of Michael Apted’s Seven Up! series and inspired by Jean Anyon’s 1980 text “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work.” “Eye-opening, perspicacious documentary filmmaking at its finest, Central Standard addresses the complexities of what a group of thoughtful and genuinely world-aware teens face or are favored with simply by their geography and economic class. Most importantly, it inculcates a profound, lasting and unpretentious empathy with its subjects. You won’t want to let these kids go.”&nbsp;—&nbsp;Chris Ware, Graphic Novelist A co-production of WTTW11 &amp; Scrappers Film Group, with the support of PBS Digital Studios and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s American Graduate initiative PBS WORLD Channels national broadcast WTTW Chicago PBS broadcast ︎︎︎Watch on YouTube or on TV through the PBS app <img width="1367" height="957" width_o="1367" height_o="957" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c154601491550be5b4d179ad3aabc6adfe476d7896823105441ecf9c5da5a83e/CS1.png" data-mid="118464480" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c154601491550be5b4d179ad3aabc6adfe476d7896823105441ecf9c5da5a83e/CS1.png" /> <img width="693" height="1023" width_o="693" height_o="1023" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2afd427e20b804ad9c173fe38db631cb1bc4ed9bf1bada3e05c959290e090c4e/CS_1023.jpg" data-mid="118464753" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/693/i/2afd427e20b804ad9c173fe38db631cb1bc4ed9bf1bada3e05c959290e090c4e/CS_1023.jpg" /> <img width="2230" height="1569" width_o="2230" height_o="1569" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03fd7d23a02bfbae5eb80348d30bfbe1411d70dedb5f67c582858fe5064739c2/CS2.png" data-mid="118464481" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03fd7d23a02bfbae5eb80348d30bfbe1411d70dedb5f67c582858fe5064739c2/CS2.png" /> https://brianashby.film/Scrappers Sun, 28 Feb 2021 19:54:08 +0000 Brian Ashby https://brianashby.film/Scrappers Scrappers Dir. Brian Ashby, Ben Kolak &amp; Courtney Prokopas 2010 94min Set in Chicago's labyrinth of alleys, Scrappers is a portrait of Oscar and Otis, two metal scavengers searching for a living with brains, brawn and battered pickup trucks. The film shows how the 2008 financial collapse affects these men and their families. One of Roger Ebert’s Best Documentaries of 2010&nbsp;&nbsp;&amp; 👍👍 Two thumbs up&nbsp;👍👍 Winner: Audience Award &amp; Best Documentary Feature, Chicago Underground Film Festival&nbsp; Festivals:&nbsp; Southern Circuit / Maryland / Revelation Perth / Citizen Jane / Landlocked “Superior vérité doc... painlessly imparts a whole lot of insight into the travails of undocumented immigrants, the persistence of segregation, and the workings of the globalized economy. Miraculously, the whole thing plays more like a gritty valentine to the City in a Garden than an earnest left-wing guilt trip.” — Chicago Reader “Scrappers goes beyond the novelty of the profession to tackle tough questions of race, work, public and private housing, and immigration. The film is a moving portrait of the precariousness of life and work at the bottom of the American economy in one of the country’s wealthiest cities.” — In These Times&nbsp; “Patient, humane, committed”&nbsp;— SF Weekly “A sometimes moving, sometimes funny, and always unflinching look deep into a world many of us never knew existed."&nbsp;— Maryland Film Festival “Takes up resonating issues like the economic downturn, fatherhood and failed relationships and sees them play out in the men’s homes, the cabs of their trucks and on the grid of Chicago’s alleyways.”&nbsp;— NewCity “Offers a modest but unexpectedly beautiful view of the city” — Chicago Tribune “A beautifully shot and tenderly rendered documentary... Avoiding folksy caricature as well as polemic, Scrappers feels more like a poem you have to let settle in your own time.”&nbsp;— ArtThreat If you are interested in viewing Scrappers, please ︎︎︎contact me.&nbsp; <img width="1470" height="996" width_o="1470" height_o="996" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54fa3108ddea4b3cfb2ed84649fbcce7ea12a73f59a388a966d16c6eb98590f1/4007769043_ed776ca29d_h.jpg" data-mid="101219005" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54fa3108ddea4b3cfb2ed84649fbcce7ea12a73f59a388a966d16c6eb98590f1/4007769043_ed776ca29d_h.jpg" /> <img width="1536" height="1024" width_o="1536" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f0229feab33b304f9a4f330c487d7b9d8b760917ce3338cecac9ae4a273cd59/5015682613_7fc60c6f27_h.jpg" data-mid="101219007" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f0229feab33b304f9a4f330c487d7b9d8b760917ce3338cecac9ae4a273cd59/5015682613_7fc60c6f27_h.jpg" /> <img width="560" height="800" width_o="560" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a814cc4ec8195564d3c5f7079ad0ab5fd3f720c4805af9f2cfa986f241d69759/3514247848_29fa2145e9_c.jpg" data-mid="100931909" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/560/i/a814cc4ec8195564d3c5f7079ad0ab5fd3f720c4805af9f2cfa986f241d69759/3514247848_29fa2145e9_c.jpg" /> <img width="1424" height="2144" width_o="1424" height_o="2144" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9522aa325fa309f475df79dbac0247846a543070ff8bbed53dd5f9019868ed1c/LuisaCourtneyBrian.JPG" data-mid="100990587" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9522aa325fa309f475df79dbac0247846a543070ff8bbed53dd5f9019868ed1c/LuisaCourtneyBrian.JPG" /> <img width="1325" height="1944" width_o="1325" height_o="1944" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/11d20d66e6e03022705281d1ead9e4a1c46ad5447493ca297abaf93b5c014b2e/IMG_3549f.jpg" data-mid="101217732" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/11d20d66e6e03022705281d1ead9e4a1c46ad5447493ca297abaf93b5c014b2e/IMG_3549f.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1778" width_o="1500" height_o="1778" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/091c9653373f6aa869cb9d1095234be5200f633387f29b201351e7aae67b6829/PosterLarge.jpg" data-mid="100931902" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/091c9653373f6aa869cb9d1095234be5200f633387f29b201351e7aae67b6829/PosterLarge.jpg" /> https://brianashby.film/Pentimenti Tue, 02 Mar 2021 05:42:56 +0000 Brian Ashby https://brianashby.film/Pentimenti <img width="1150" height="400" width_o="1150" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/91d40da7a2750a67e75204fc858670c087c6379255e491ae00b18d8a37bc08f4/Logo-Logotype-2C.jpg" data-mid="100871312" border="0" data-scale="65" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/91d40da7a2750a67e75204fc858670c087c6379255e491ae00b18d8a37bc08f4/Logo-Logotype-2C.jpg" /> I have played leading roles in two films from director Leslie Buchbinder and Chicago-based Pentimenti Productions. Westermann 3D in post-production︎︎︎click for info Hairy Who &amp; The Chicago Imagists 2014︎︎︎click for info https://brianashby.film/Short-films-2column Tue, 02 Mar 2021 05:40:27 +0000 Brian Ashby https://brianashby.film/Short-films-2column 2020 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;The Quarantine Concerts The Wire magazine 2015 Open Hearing MediaBurn Independent Video ArchiveFestivals: Maryland / Chicago Underground ︎︎︎interview with Brian Ashby, Terri Kapsalis, &amp; John Corbett 2013 Botanicas de la Villita“The Grid” on Gapers BlockInstalled in Tradiciones, Rockford Art Museum 2014 2019 Flight Logs Chicago Film ArchivesFestivals: Maryland / Chicago Underground 2014 Arkansas Red and His Listeners“The Grid” on Gapers Block 2012 Envision Arts Studio“The Grid” on Gapers Block https://brianashby.film/Westermann-3D Tue, 02 Mar 2021 05:03:50 +0000 Brian Ashby https://brianashby.film/Westermann-3D Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an IdeaDir. Leslie Buchbinder 202388min, Stereoscopic 3D Editor, co-writer, producer, contributing cinematographer, 1st asst. director A 3-D documentary film about the life and work of artist and Marine H.C. (“Cliff”) Westermann, voice-acted by four-time Academy-Award nominee Ed Harris, and featuring interviews with Ed Ruscha, Frank Gehry, and more.&nbsp; As a veteran of World War II and the Korean War who struggled with the ramifications of modern warfare, Westermann’s dramatic personal history can be traced through his beguiling, surreal artworks. 3D Premieres: Art21 at the Movies (NYC) / Hammer Museum (LA) / Art Institute of Chicago Festivals: St. Louis International / Tacoma / RiverRun / Middlebury / G.I. Film Festival &nbsp; Winner: Best Documentary, Oregon Independent Film Festival &amp; Golden State Film Festival Available to stream on major platforms — learn more at&nbsp;︎︎︎Pentimenti <img width="1536" height="1024" width_o="1536" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea840f9172a663479f79d960cb6de8fdf56119cb7f35a6d4201e9b42510566e2/DSC04781-1536x1024.jpeg" data-mid="197955300" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea840f9172a663479f79d960cb6de8fdf56119cb7f35a6d4201e9b42510566e2/DSC04781-1536x1024.jpeg" /> <img width="2048" height="1366" width_o="2048" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8431d55ed1c7650c0b8daff56996f440d68a706d6ef7c2652d4b7dac7be24c5d/i-ffqWZGK-X4.jpeg" data-mid="197956131" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8431d55ed1c7650c0b8daff56996f440d68a706d6ef7c2652d4b7dac7be24c5d/i-ffqWZGK-X4.jpeg" /> <img width="3240" height="2160" width_o="3240" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f77803e16e82e35d8277c40e971260fd0d8117ed0f6f5832389a798047dca3c0/38155358425_0bdf41c893_o.jpg" data-mid="100932083" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f77803e16e82e35d8277c40e971260fd0d8117ed0f6f5832389a798047dca3c0/38155358425_0bdf41c893_o.jpg" /> <img width="799" height="533" width_o="799" height_o="533" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c10742f4437a30c9213c77d48558c4a94905a2501dfef7bb39f70c248396cd19/25895289431_0508f5b368_c.jpg" data-mid="100932082" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/799/i/c10742f4437a30c9213c77d48558c4a94905a2501dfef7bb39f70c248396cd19/25895289431_0508f5b368_c.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1256" width_o="2048" height_o="1256" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/273fe343ae0bef2a52c22aa5c60c1bade06ba883192e7fc0ecab1aba3b281487/50995439212_996604a6c9_k.jpg" data-mid="100989506" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/273fe343ae0bef2a52c22aa5c60c1bade06ba883192e7fc0ecab1aba3b281487/50995439212_996604a6c9_k.jpg" /> <img width="2216" height="1511" width_o="2216" height_o="1511" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c0fbce7fdab5fc1dc40bc18dbfebad8da38df3d4242f3c873badecc97c4b82a/Screen-Shot-2021-03-05-at-12.48.24-PM.png" data-mid="101218222" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c0fbce7fdab5fc1dc40bc18dbfebad8da38df3d4242f3c873badecc97c4b82a/Screen-Shot-2021-03-05-at-12.48.24-PM.png" /> https://brianashby.film/Hairy-Who Wed, 03 Mar 2021 03:58:19 +0000 Brian Ashby https://brianashby.film/Hairy-Who Hairy Who &amp; The Chicago Imagists Dir. Leslie Buchbinder 2014 107minProducer, contributing cinematographer, archival researcher A lavishly-illustrated romp through Chicago Imagist art: the Second City scene that challenged Pop Art’s status quo in the 1960s, then faded from view. Forty years later, its funk and grit inspires artists from Jeff Koons to Chris Ware, making the Imagists the most famous artists you never knew.. Festivals: Minneapolis-St. Paul / Newport Beach / Milwaukee / San Diego Design / SF DocFest / Napa Valley / CineMarfa Screened at art centers worldwide: Liverpool Biennial / The New Museum / mumok Vienna / MCA Chicago / Goldsmiths CCA / Art Institute of Chicago / Fondazione Prada WTTW Chicago PBS broadcast“Illuminating... helps fill a yawning gap in the conventional telling of American modern art’s story.” — Hyperallergic “Featuring some 40 interviews plus archival footage and animation, the film makes a compelling case for the continued relevance of the Midwest’s merry pranksters. It also faces head-on the question of whether the artists’ resolute outsider stance, along with their second-tier base of operations, will inevitably relegate them to footnote status in postwar American art history.”&nbsp;— Art in America “Fulsomely intelligent... both richly informative and utterly entertaining.” — Border Crossings&nbsp;“Far from a dry litany of talking heads... A love letter.” —&nbsp;Chicago Tribune Watch on ︎︎︎Vimeo or ︎︎︎iTunes <img width="2000" height="1295" width_o="2000" height_o="1295" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9598f488d1a311236fea4aa82c8e0b119d046d9f0078bd1b773e1d4b6a04fafd/10005845_589397944489657_8325296315084560909_o.jpg" data-mid="101221043" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9598f488d1a311236fea4aa82c8e0b119d046d9f0078bd1b773e1d4b6a04fafd/10005845_589397944489657_8325296315084560909_o.jpg" /> <img width="620" height="413" width_o="620" height_o="413" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a09ece0489b7aa3f71bfc2ca7ee4bc9bc59ddb7131421b464e1bfe790dfc7db7/dvd-package.jpeg" data-mid="101221075" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/620/i/a09ece0489b7aa3f71bfc2ca7ee4bc9bc59ddb7131421b464e1bfe790dfc7db7/dvd-package.jpeg" /> <img width="2000" height="1304" width_o="2000" height_o="1304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/145d89f2cb19889db98cb0b1ae4755eddf9f46ff23ddf305b6c3694c8b5515be/966204_589397277823057_4001956090131009342_o.jpg" data-mid="101220992" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/145d89f2cb19889db98cb0b1ae4755eddf9f46ff23ddf305b6c3694c8b5515be/966204_589397277823057_4001956090131009342_o.jpg" /> https://brianashby.film/Homepage Fri, 27 Aug 2021 15:09:51 +0000 Brian Ashby https://brianashby.film/Homepage <img width="1944" height="2880" width_o="1944" height_o="2880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/056e2cfca5243fd7e05d958589f637da1d445271dccd6db1469785202e7b9b6b/Westermann-poster-low-res.jpg" data-mid="213513726" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/056e2cfca5243fd7e05d958589f637da1d445271dccd6db1469785202e7b9b6b/Westermann-poster-low-res.jpg" /> <img width="695" height="1023" width_o="695" height_o="1023" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48d5ff11737079f094770df165dfcb710abe16439e2a5737e57d05f703157926/TheArea_1023_laurels.jpg" data-mid="155076268" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/695/i/48d5ff11737079f094770df165dfcb710abe16439e2a5737e57d05f703157926/TheArea_1023_laurels.jpg" /> <img width="775" height="1023" width_o="775" height_o="1023" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/20d9287f086e75d0d1efa1a740f5bbc3caddaf49d1eead685ec0df1cd4a4ca5f/AccidentMD_1023_BestOf.jpg" data-mid="118447623" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/775/i/20d9287f086e75d0d1efa1a740f5bbc3caddaf49d1eead685ec0df1cd4a4ca5f/AccidentMD_1023_BestOf.jpg" /> <img width="693" height="1023" width_o="693" height_o="1023" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58710b65df2cc10ea8506b252120dfefc0c0ccbd354adb9bf4bd90238d5e162e/CS_1023.jpg" data-mid="117483187" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/693/i/58710b65df2cc10ea8506b252120dfefc0c0ccbd354adb9bf4bd90238d5e162e/CS_1023.jpg" /> <img width="682" height="1023" width_o="682" height_o="1023" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8d4bb70d0cfa54681b9e073fe902b769015a08a6476bd8f7aa2324005bba3fd/HairyWho_1023.jpg" data-mid="117483195" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/682/i/b8d4bb70d0cfa54681b9e073fe902b769015a08a6476bd8f7aa2324005bba3fd/HairyWho_1023.jpg" /> <img width="770" height="1023" width_o="770" height_o="1023" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c3aa2cfbe8fed1f5cd14907d1e86a00b7802990317426325b938f73b696e202/Scrappers_1023.jpg" data-mid="117483188" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/770/i/7c3aa2cfbe8fed1f5cd14907d1e86a00b7802990317426325b938f73b696e202/Scrappers_1023.jpg" /> https://brianashby.film/about Sun, 28 Feb 2021 19:54:08 +0000 Brian Ashby https://brianashby.film/about <img width="3088" height="3865" width_o="3088" height_o="3865" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8372f32cb7e1de9e1d8095281858b15d628a0b27fbfcf34535e8a64730ad05b/02.06-Tintype-7-12.02.24-AM.jpg" data-mid="236796433" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e8372f32cb7e1de9e1d8095281858b15d628a0b27fbfcf34535e8a64730ad05b/02.06-Tintype-7-12.02.24-AM.jpg" /> [︎︎︎tintype by Max Li] Get in touch:brian@brianashby.film | (773) 930-9447 Brian Ashby is a Chicago-based filmmaker who has collaborated widely. His work has screened at festivals including Full Frame, Black Harvest, Big Sky, Chicago International, and Southern Circuit, and has been broadcast nationally on PBS’&nbsp;Independent Lens and America ReFramed. His work as an editor includes The Area (Dir. David Schalliol), for which he was a 2017 IFP Documentary Labs fellow, and Accident, MD (dir. Dan Rybicky), which won the 2019 Vimeo Award for Best Documentary. He recently edited and co-wrote the 3D hybrid documentary Westermann (dir. Leslie Buchbinder), voiced by Ed Harris. Films Brian directed or produced have been exhibited theatrically at venues including the Gene Siskel Film Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Nitehawk Cinema, and more. Brian’s directorial debut, Scrappers, was one of Roger Ebert’s Best Documentaries of 2010. Previously Brian was a managing partner of a small production company for eight years, where he led creative teams for a wide variety of clients. He has contributed documentary cinematography to films and television including Speaking Is Difficult (Sundance Film Festival 2016), Nomination (IDA nominated 2017), and Art:21 season 8. Chicago has been his home since 2002, as well as the focus of much of his work.&nbsp; He received his BA in Political Science from the University of Chicago, and he lives in the South Shore neighborhood with his family. ︎︎︎Brian Ashby on IMDb