Jenny Ash
Directing
Biography
Jenny Ash makes films with strong narratives. Her work is known for its authentic storytelling, emotional power, and visual punch. Some of the projects are micro, while others involve huge production teams. All are driven by a desire to tell complex true stories in a compelling and nuanced way. Ash'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.
Known For
Personal Affairs is a six-part 2009 BBC Three comedy-drama miniseries created and written by Gabbie Asher. A quartet of Desperate Workwives—Lucy Baxter, Nicole Palmerston-Amory, Michelle Lerner, and Doris Siddiqi—try to break through the glass ceiling.
Personal Affairs
From the shy, quiet son of a billionaire to global terrorist mastermind - a never-before-seen version of Bin Laden's rise to global infamy, featuring close eyewitness accounts.
Bin Laden: The Road to 9/11
When BA Flight 149 unwittingly landed in a warzone, its passengers and crew were taken hostage. Did the UK government allow it? And who were the mercenaries on board?
Flight 149: Hostage of War
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
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
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
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 photographer Ajamu X as he photographs them.
Me and My Penis
Anna Richardson investigates the latest generation of weight-loss drugs that have been all over the media and social media. Anna talks to doctors and actual users of the "skinny jab," explains what makes these drugs work, and investigates the most common adverse effects.
The Truth About the 'Skinny' Jab
Gary Younge travels across America to find out why Trump resonates with so many people.
Angry, White and American
The story of a Hispanic detective's quest to track down a serial killer from his own neighborhood who terrorized LA in the mid 80s.
The Night Stalker
Recounting the dramatic story of the Nuremberg Trials, using over a thousand archive clips, including recently digitised film footage from the courtroom. 21 Nazi leaders were charged with crimes that caused the deaths of millions of innocents.