Ashley Karrell is an award-winning director, photographer, film and theatre-maker with a career spanning 20 years. He has produced a broad spectrum of work that includes visual art, commercial and experimental video productions and mass participation pieces across and outside of the UK. Ashley graduated from the Northern Film School in 2005 and is now the director of the production company Panoptical and Expression Of You CIC, where he delivers large and small-scale productions at public exhibitions, events and festivals, and pursues work, which explores ideas of community, is socially engaging, and internationally-minded. His name is well known for the film and documentary of Geraldine Connor’s epic masterpiece Carnival Messiah, which debuted at the Leeds International Film Festival 2017. Its West Indies premier was at the Film Festival in Trinidad in September 2018, where it won the People’s Choice Award for Best Documentary.
2021-2023 Marks a new journey of creativity with the release of four short films, BFI Doc Society funded #BlackBoyJoyGone (#BBJG), ACE funded dance theatre film Displaced, Journey's Festival and ArtReach funded refugee dance and animation film Reckoning and documentary Souls & Cells. He is also developing long-form film content and expanding the legacy of his living art project www.ExpressionOfYou.net.
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Work history
Filmmaker, Photographer, Visual ArtistPanoptical
Leeds, United KingdomFull Time
Skills
- Video
- Art Photography
- Beauty Photography
- Music Videos
- Broadcast Commercials
- Corperate Video
- Fine Art
- Video Art
- Creative Documentary
- Promotional Videos
Awards
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Carnival Messiah - The Film (People's Choice Award)Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival