About Ashley Maynor

Ashley Maynor was born and raised in Tennessee and received her BA in French Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. As a 2004-2005 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, she researched French and Polish literature and film at the University of Michigan. While in Ann Arbor, Ashley served as a programmer and selection committee member for the 43rd Ann Arbor Film Festival.

In 2005, she received a University Fellowship from Temple University and completed her MFA in Film and Media Arts in May 2008. Her film and video work include Men, In Uniform (2004), a short documentary which premiered at the Iowa City International Documentary Festival, Pretty Bird (2006), which premiered at the DiamondScreen Film Festival in Philadelphia, and Time Immemorial, an interactive narrative exhibited at the 2007 UFVA New Media Exhibition.

In addition to teaching 16mm Filmmaking and Screenwriting at Temple, Ashley has taught workshops as a video facilitator for Scribe Video Center’s Precious Places Community History Project and as a guest artist in the Arts Council of the Blue Ridge’s Artists in the Schools program. Locally, she is the founder and director of the Blacksburg Stories Youth Video Workshop in Blacksburg, VA, and teaches visual media and digital cinema classes as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech.

She has served as producer, assistant director, and art director on a number of short films. Most recently, she worked as production designer for the short film Quick Feet, Soft Hands, by Sundance award-winning director Paul Harrill. Her interests as a filmmaker and new media artist range from regional filmmaking to essay-films and home movies.

Ashley currently resides in Roanoke, Virginia. You can reach her via email: ashley[at]preservationproject[dot]org.