Creative production company Derby has brought Eli Ash on board as its newest sr. producer. In this role, Ash will oversee production work for all of Derby’s agency and brand partners.
Ash most recently hails from Complex Media where she was supervising producer, overseeing all daily production and operations of the company’s original content, and owned-and-operated content channels. Over the course of her career, she has straddled both the broadcast television and commercial worlds, having produced content for networks such as NBC, ABC, A&E, BBC, MTV, The Travel Channel, The Food Network, Discovery Science, PBS, Sesame Workshop and Viacom. In advertising, Ash has produced a number of commercial and branded content pieces for Warner Brothers Records, Nike, GM, BMW, The Nobel Peace Prize, OXFAM Crisis Action, GQ, Vogue, Complex and Vice Media, among others. Outside of Derby, Ash continues to flex her production skills, producing music videos, documentaries and short films with friends and colleagues in her spare time.
Derby represents a diverse roster of directorial talent, including The Bozzwicks, Catherine Orchard, John Poliquin, Josh Hayward, Lucas Borras, Nickolas Duarte and most recently, Roberto Serrini who earned a slot in this year’s SHOOT New Directors Showcase.
Several Movies To Look Forward To At Sundance 2025
The Sundance Film Festival catalogue can be overwhelming to navigate, with around 90 feature films playing across 11 days.
This year the Robert Redford-founded independent film festival has something for everyone: Comedies, dramas, horrors, documentaries, the intriguingly undefinable (there's a movie about cabbage smuggling called "Bubble & Squeak" and one in which a woman becomes a chair and everyone likes her better that way called "By Design").
Here are a few of the films we're looking forward to most:
"Atropia"
This is a film that the producers would rather audiences experience blind, but the brief synopsis is that Alia Shawkat plays an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility who falls for a soldier playing an insurgent. Luca Guadagnino produced the film, written and directed by Hailey Gates. It also stars Callum Turner and Chloë Sevigny. When asked how she likes to describe the film, Gates told The Associated Press that, "Sometimes I describe it as a military industrial complex romantic comedy."
"Bunnylovr"
This film delves into the life of a Chinese-American "cam girl," kind of a virtual sex worker, who is navigating a toxic relationship with a client while attempting to repair her relationship with her dying father. Katarina Zhu wrote, directed and stars in the film, alongside Rachel Sennott.
"2000 Meters to Andriivka"
Pulitzer Prize-winner Mstyslav Chernov took audiences into the first days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the Oscar-winning "20 Days in Mariupol" and is back with another dispatch from the ongoing war. In "2000 Meters to Andriivka," a joint production between the AP and Frontline, Chernov turns his lens to Ukrainian... Read More