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Ashley Omoma

(she / her / hers)

Director, Writer, DP, Researcher, Editor,

New York, New York US

About

Ashley Ijeoma Omoma is a multidisciplinary Nigerian-American writer, artist and filmmaker. Fascinated by truth and the subconscious mind, she gravitates towards stories that investigate the chasm between actions and their origins through flawed, relatable, deeply interesting but contradictory characters. Her background in documentary filmmaking and interest in narrative storytelling marry in the structure and form her stories take often borrowing from each other to create fluid work that is experimental in nature. Her latest works in progress, a mother daughter psychological magical realism dramadey, Now That We Kill Me and a coming of age Black surfer documentary, Float are indicative of that. Ijeoma’s characters and in depth world building explore collective experiences such as death and rebirth, mysticism and spirituality, love, grief, familial dynamics, migration, safety and more. She imbues much of her work with comedy, dance and music to tackle challenging topics often probing the depths of the human psyche with levity and hope. As an artist, she creates with the deep belief that art has function. She is interested in the medicinally regenerative, imaginatively restorative and personally transformative uses of art among others. Ijeoma comes to her role as a storyteller informed by her disciplines and study in surfing, dance, various healing modalities and journalism, which all make appearances in her stories. As a journalist, she has worked with the NYT, Refinery 29 x Google News, the IRP, the IDA and more highlighting stories on reproductive justice, women’s rights, and the rights of Black and Brown people. When she is not writing stories, she is somewhere, writing stories.