Eugene Ashe

Eugene Johnson Ashe is an Emmy nominated writer-director and former Sony Music recording artist from New York City. His award winning Amazon Original film Sylvie's Love, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival in the US Dramatic Competition and has a score of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. The film was nominated for an Emmy and a Critics Choice Award for best Movie in the TV category, as well as five NAACP Awards, and won the NAACP award for Outstanding Directing.

As a writer, Eugene has written screenplays for Paramount Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures, and Amazon Studios, as well as pilot scripts for FOX Television and MGM TV. He is currently in development on a feature film at Amazon MGM with MACRO Studios producing, and on an original feature with Julie Oh of OH CO. producing.

Filmography

Sylvie's Love (2020)^[1]^[2]
Homecoming (2012)

References

^ Murphy, Mekado (20 November 2020). "With 'Sylvie's Love,' Eugene Ashe Returns With a Big Hollywood Romance". The New York Times.
^ "Writer-director Eugene Ashe's new take on an old-fashioned love story". KCRW. 12 January 2021.

[NYTSylviesLove-1] Murphy, Mekado (20 November 2020). "With 'Sylvie's Love,' Eugene Ashe Returns With a Big Hollywood Romance". The New York Times.

[2] "Writer-director Eugene Ashe's new take on an old-fashioned love story". KCRW. 12 January 2021.

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