Ashley Brim

Ashley Brim was born to strangers and adopted by wonderfully practical parents who ensured she was literate before sending her to art school to study photography. After a decade holding a camera, Ashley was offered a job working for director Michael Cuesta on the pilot of HOMELAND (Showtime). Exhausted by freelance life, she enthusiastically took the gig and so began a journey to a completely new career (which wasn’t exhausting at all). Over eight seasons she learned how to make TV across three continents and many many time zones, eventually earning a producer title and a lot of hats that say HOMELAND. Ashley’s short films have screened at festivals around the world, including Palm Springs ShortFest, HollyShorts, and the prestigious Mill Valley Film Festival. Her screenplay THE GOLDFISH won the New Orleans Film Festival Screenplay Competition and was a Second Rounder at Austin Film Festival. Produced in 2020, THE GOLDFISH stars Diarra Kilpatrick and premiered at Brooklyn Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best Short Film. As an emerging TV director Ashley has been mentored in Ryan Murphy’s HALF Initiative and the FOX Global Inclusion Directors Lab and shadowed Lesli Linka Glatter, Michael Cuesta, Jonathan Frakes, and Dan Minahan. Ashley worked as a producer on the long-running Showtime series HOMELAND and as a creative consultant on Netflix’s hit series PIECES OF HER. When she isn’t filmmaking, Ashley organizes for reproductive justice with Access RJ and is a peer counselor on the Exhale Pro-voice Textline.