President and CEO
Ashley "Asha" Chai-Chang
Bio
Hailing from Charlotte, NC, now based in Los Angeles, Asha Chai-Chang is an Emmy Winning Filmmaker and Two-Time Netflix Writer/Director Fellow. Asha is a Jewish, Afro-Latina, and Caribbean-Asian female director with disabilities.
She disrupts stigmas throughout the entertainment industry by creating accessible and inclusive sets for productions and advocating for diverse storytelling. A Yale graduate, former finance professional, and Co-Founder of Slamdance Unstoppable - a film program at the Academy Award and BAFTA qualifying Film Festival dedicated to uplifting films with or by disabled talent and filmmakers - Ms. Chai-Chang impacts positive change beyond the silver screen.
Simultaneously on screen, films she has written and directed have been recognized by Oscar-qualifying film festivals and the NAACP. Asha is creating a preschool animated Spanish bilingual TV series, WENDY ON WHEELS, followed by her recent trilingual (Spanish, English, ASL) sitcom proof of concept and film, MARQUE DOS, which will premiere at an Academy Award Qualifying Film Festival in 2024.
Her work
She has written and directed family-friendly and Award-Winning films like “Cruise Control”, “Spoiler Alert”, "All by Design," and “A.V.G”, which highlight female and BIPOC gamers and depict people of color as capable and intelligent, which have been officially recognized by DGA-sponsored and Oscar-qualifying film festivals like Pan African Film & Arts Festival and the NAACP. This relates to my aim of positively impacting people of different ages, orientations, religions, gender, ability, and subcultures with my films. Miss Chai-Chang is a Diversity in Film Advocate, a Slamdance programmer, and a founding member of UNSTOPPABLE sponsored by HULU, a film program that features films created by differently-abled filmmakers and/or featuring talent with disabilities. UNSTOPPABLE has garnered the attention of YouTube, Google, Amazon Studios, IndieWire, and ScreenDaily.
As CEO of her own diversified, culturally transformative production company, Love My Productions, LLC, Asha creates uplifting content with strong female characters and authentic representation in cast and crew to provide opportunities for BIPOC creatives and promote intersectionality and subcultures on screen. As a sought-out panelist and public speaker for Film Festivals, Universities, and Comic Conventions, she advocates for diversity, gender parity, and disability inclusion to amplify diverse and differently abled voices.
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1 hr
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