Jenny Ash
2021Ash's 2019 film '100 Vaginas' got rave reviews - 5 stars in the Telegraph, Guardian and Independent, big spreads in Grazia, the Daily Mail and The Sun who called it a groundbreaking documentary that should be shown in schools.
'Angry White and American' which she made with writer and journalist Gary Younge was Grierson nominated. His encounter with white Supremacist Richard Spencer went viral on social media with over 11 million hits before the film even aired.
Other recent films include a WW1 drama documentary about the illicit love affair between Sigfried Sassoon and Wilfried Owen for ITV starring John Hurt and a series of films about the Rwandan genocide.
Ash's film about slavery and the American Civil War for History in the US, introduced by Barack Obama, was four times Emmy nominated.
In between films, Ash makes TV commercials and content for global brands – recent campaigns include P&G’s Always, Depend, Google and Virgin Atlantic.
She speaks fluent French, German and Spanish and has dual US citizenship.
The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets
Jenny Ash
John Hurt, Morgan Watkins
The story of the WWI poets Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves, using their diaries and letters to tell the inside story of the war in their own words.
The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets
America: The Story of Us
Clare Beavan, Nick Green
Liev Schreiber, Tom Brokaw
A six-night miniseries presenting the history of how the United States was invented, looking at the moments where Americans harnessed technology to advance human progress -- from the rigors of linking the continent by transcontinental railroad to triumphing over vertical space through the construction of steel-structured buildings. The series also is a story of conflict, with Native American peoples, slavery, the Revolutionary War that birthed the nation, the Civil War that divided it, and the great world war that shaped its future.
America: The Story of Us
Me and My Penis
Jenny Ash
Ajamu X, Sam Morris
Men talk openly about their penis, the physical realities of sex, masturbation and erections, and how it feels to be a man. They also tell stories of infertility, violence and sexual abuse. Men of differing sexualities (gay, straight, non-binary and trans), differing cultural and racial heritages are interviewed by the photographer, Ajamu X, as he photographs them. Ajamu himself is gay and black and he proves to be as adept at interviewing as he is at photography.
Me and My Penis
100 Vaginas
Jenny Ash
Laura Dodsworth
A bold, feminist film about how the vagina has shaped our view of the world and the shame around female sexuality. Women from 19 to 77 years old talk about puberty, menstruation, birth, motherhood, infertility, menopause, pleasure, sex, pain, trauma, gender, sexuality, cancer, rape and FGM.
100 Vaginas
