What's Happening
Etheria Film Festival- Boston, MA - Sept 15th, 2012
"Volcano Girl" will screen on Saturday Sept 15th at 9:00pm in the Sci-Fi Category.
Bumbershoot: Seattle's Music & Arts Festival - 1 Reel Film Festival "Nerds Unite" - Seattle, WA - Sept 1st, 2012
"Volcano Girl" will screen on Saturday Sept 1st at 5:30pm.
First Film Festival - Los Angeles, CA - April 14th, 2012
"Volcano Girl" will screen on Saturday April 14th at 2:00pm at the School of Cinematic Arts Theater 108.
Come out, support Volcano Girl & VOTE in the audience award category!!
Southern California Business Film Festival - Los Angeles, CA March 4th, 2012
"Volcano Girl" screened on the USC campus and WON BEST ACTRESS for Bonnie Kathleen Ryan's portrayal of Volcano Girl/Virginia Patterson.
"Friday Night Fright" screens at Carrboro Film Festival, NC - November 20th, 2011
"Friday Night Fright" will screen for the Carrboro town (which also includes Ashley's alma mater UNC Chapel Hill) on Sunday, November 20th at 5:30pm. Check out the Carrboro Film Festival here.
Come out, support Ash & VOTE in the audience award category! I want to win a T-Shirt!
Private Screening of "Volcano Girl" for the IMAX Movie Makers Camp - July 20th, 2011
"Volcano Girl" will screen for these up and coming young filmmakers followed by a Q&A with Ashley Maria. The goal is to show these local filmmakers that they too can grow up in Raleigh and make amazing movies, as long as they stick to it!
Private Screening of "Volcano Girl" and "Friday Night Fright" - July 10th, 2011
The Wells Fargo IMAX Theatre at Marbles in Downtown Raleigh, NC hosted a private screening of VG & FNF followed by a Q&A with Ashley.
To read my Life of a Film Student blog about preparation for the screening, click here.
Watch the FNF trailer here.
"Friday Night Fright" won the Audience Award at Bleedfest in April 2011
Watch the FNF trailer here.
Selected to Direct an Advanced USC Production, "Volcano Girl"
On November 19th, I was selected to direct "Volcano Girl," a story developed from Josh Eiserike's "Volcano Girl" comic books. The film is about a super hero who is fired from her job and forced to move back home with her parents and share a room with her little sister.
Josh and I are colleagues at USC, so we partnered up with producer, Stephen Gibler, to pitch this story to the USC faculty. 12 direcitng finalists pitched and 3 were chosen - our project being one of them.
Read more in the "Volcano Girl" tab above. Or click here.
Here are two photos from our pitch packet:
Volcano Girl...Unmasked!
May 7th - Premiere of Volcano Girl and entrance into festivals! Check back for updates.
March & April - post production
February - principal production
Dec 21st - First round of auditions done - second round will be the first week in January
Nov 30th - Core crew selected
Nov 19th - Pitch Day
Winner of Director's Guild Award
So proud to announce that "Friday Night Fright" won the Student Director's Guild of America Award in the Women's category.
FNF will screen at the DGA along with an awards ceremony on November 10th, 2010.
Click here to read the blog entry about this event.
Watch the FNF trailer here.
Hallowscreen Film Festival - Sarasota, FL - October 2010
"Friday Night Fright" is screening at the Hallowscreen Film Festival in Sarasota, FL on October 31st.
Check out their website here for more information about screening times.
Producing "Shane" a USC Advanced Directing Project
"Shane" is a psychological thriller about a young woman who is so screwed up mentally that she doesn't see the reality of her actions. A monster chases her back to her reality.
Directed by a colleague, Maritte Go, this film is a part of the USC Directing track. It is scheduled to screen December 2010.
LA Shorts Fest - Los Angeles, CA - July 2010
"Friday Night Fright" will screen at the Los Angeles International Shorts Festival this July 28th at 10pm. For more about the event, click here.
Female Shorts Film Festival - Alexandria, VA - June 2010
"Friday Night Fright" has been accepted into the Target Gallery Female Shorts Festival in Alexandria, VA June 3rd - 6th. It will screen at the Torpedo Factory Art Center. The film festival will be apart of their summer long program "Minds Wide Open" - celebrating women in the arts.
Click here to link to the event.
UCLA Shorttakes Film Festival - Los Angeles, CA - May 2010
"Friday Night Fright" screened at the UCLA student film festival in their Ackerman Ballrooom. It was a finalist in their "Best Live Action" category judged by Andrew J. Cohen, the producer of 40-Year-Old-Virgin, and Robert Roy Pool, writer of Armageddon, among many others. See more about the event here.
To read my "Life of a Film Student" blog about the event, click here.
TEDxUSC "Ideas Empowered" Conference - Los Angeles, CA April 2010
"Friday Night Fright" screened to a sold out audience at the TEDxUSC conference in April. It screened in the Bovard Auditorium on the USC campus.
For more about the event, click the program or click here.
To read my "Life of a Film Student" blog about the event, click here.
March 2010 Announcement
“Friday Night Fright” is currently a finalist to screen at the TEDxUSC "Ideas Empowered" conference in April. Decisions will be announced April 4th.
Southern California Business Film Festival - Los Angeles, CA February 2010
Click the program to link to a press release for the event.
To read my "Life of a Film Student" blog about the event, click here.
Film Nite - Raleigh, NC - December 2009
Winter break starts out with a screening of Ashley Maria’s three most recent films. 
Click on the image to link to the press release.
To read my "Life of a Film Student" blog about the Raleigh screening as well as the USC screening, click here.
