Laurie Ashbourne(I)

Laurie comes to the film industry via the feature animation world. She spent eleven years at Walt Disney Studios, where among other things she learned the craft and nuance of story and how to balance that with the business. After which led her into the world of documentary as a writer/director for, The Center of Story, a doc centered on the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, TN. From there she went to work as a story producer and script supervisor with an acclaimed documentary director David Modigliani (Crawford, 61 Bullets, Running With Beto). With several features she wrote as work-for-hires in production, a half a dozen ghost-writing films and pilots in development, and a 3 original features optioned and in early production, she is also longstanding story analyst and consultant for many top level competitions and film festivals and producing a documentary for iconic director Robert Greenwald under his Brave New Films shingle. Just before the pandemic her original story 10-31 was part of a sought after deal that landed with Producers Eli Roth and Roger Birnbaum. In addition to screenwriting and producing, she is also an author of the book Values; Rethinking Hollywood Film Investment for Maximum ROI & Impact.