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Ashley Avis is an American director, screenwriter, and producer. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and is married to Edward Winters, who is her partner in their Los Angeles based production company, Winterstone Pictures.

After beginning her career as a journalist in New York City, and directing and producing several independent films in her twenties; in 2020 she wrote, directed, as well as edited Disney's Black Beauty starring Oscar Winner Kate Winslet and Twilight's Mackenize Foy. Inspired by Anna Sewell's timeless classic, the film was an official selection to 2021 Cameraimage and reviewed as a "gorgeous, sweeping epic" by Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times.

Passionate about horses, and working with children through her nonprofit, she next embarked on a four-year documentary in Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West (2022). The film won "Best Director" and "Best Cinematography" at DOCLA, "Best Documentary" at the Boston Film Festival and "Best Documentary" at the St. Louis International Film Festival; in addition to raising unprecedented awareness for wild horses and public lands protection.

Ashley lives in California with her husband Edward, and is the founder of The Wild Beauty Foundation.

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