Ashley

Kat Sy is a software engineer and skateboarder living in the Bay Area. This film takes an intimate and introspective look at modern skate culture and its complicated relations with race and gender, as seen through the lens of a second-generation Asian American skateboarder.

To celebrate the adventurous life of her late Uncle Clive, Ashley takes a leap of faith and learns to fly. A decade after his death, Ashley takes off on an emotional journey of reconnection. Following in her Uncle’s larger-than-life footsteps, she wants to do one of the things he loved most, fly like a bird. Can his memory instill Ashley with the courage she needs to reignite her zest for life, and understand his?