DIRECTOR’S BIO
Ashley Da-Lê Duong is a Vietnamese-Canadian director based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Her directorial debut, A Time to Swim, won the Special Jury Prize for Best Feature Documentary at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2017. Recently, Ashley directed the TV hour-long documentary, Space Explorers: Moonrise On the ISS. With over 250 hours of footage filmed on the International Space Station, Space Explorers is the largest production ever filmed in space. She is currently developing a feature project in Vietnam.
Ashley’s films have been broadcast or streamed on networks such as CBC, Al Jazeera (Witness), and National Indigenous Television. She’s received funding from organizations like the National Film Board of Canada, Telefilm, Catapult Film Fund, Bell Fund, CMF, and Canada Council for the Arts. She was selected for several programs including CALQ x Villa Saigon Artist Residency and the Hot Docs Diverse Voices Program. Ashley is a member of Brown Girl Doc Mafia, BIPOC TV & Film, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) Quebec.
Ashley grew up in Calgary, on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region. With a BA in Environment Studies and Cultural Studies from McGill University, Ashley specializes in stories about relationships between humanity and the natural world.
Languages: English (native fluency), French (working proficiency), Vietnamese (heritage speaker)
See select projects here. Ashley also writes, edits and produces.
Representation: Delaroza