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Ash Goh
- Location:
- Singapore
- Languages:
- English, Spanish
- Issues:
- LGBTQIA+, Racial Injustice, Mass Incarceration & Criminal Justice Reform, Refugee Crisis and Immigration, Privacy and Surveillance, Human Rights
- Expertise:
- Educational materials, Impact Producing, Consulting, Impact Strategist/Advisor, Campaign Implementation
- Cultural/racial identity:
- Southeast Asian, Chinese Singaporean
- Self identification:
- Femme
Bio
Ash Goh Hua is a New York based, Singapore born and raised filmmaker. They tell political stories personally through experimental leaning documentaries, challenging dominant ideologies in order to imagine possibilities of other worlds. Named one of the 25 New Faces of Film by Filmmaker Magazine in 2022, Ash has been supported by programs and fellowships from institutions like Sundance, ITVS, Jacob Burns Creative Culture, Jerome Foundation and NYFA. Ash works with the Asian American Documentary Network as an Impact Project Coordinator and is the Assistant Impact Producer on Razing Liberty Square (2023). Their 2020 film I'M FREE NOW, YOU ARE FREE (distributed by PBS POV Shorts) have screened and won awards at film festivals internationally: Sheffield Doc/Fest, BlackStar Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival, Big Sky Documentary, Ann Arbor Film Festival and more. Ash's 2022 film is the Oscar®-qualifying THE FEELING OF BEING CLOSE TO YOU (distributed by Condé Nast | The New Yorker), which won Best Documentary Short Award at the New Orleans Film Festival and screened at Palm Springs International Film Festival, Singapore International Film Festival, and True/False, among others.
