NYU grad Andrea Ashton is an ex-Californian (Bay Area born and raised), current New Yorker, wife, mom, and filmmaker. Her shorts and pilots have garnered dozens of film festival awards, critical love, and thousands of YouTube views, even an archive in the Academy. Her latest pilot, “Rockaway,” a comedic narrative about cold-water surfers, kicked off its festival run at Cinequest, Northern California’s premiere arts festival. She’s been a second-rounder for both Sundance and Film Independent Labs and recently completed NYWIFT’s From Script to Pre-Production Lab with “When Joy Fell”, a dark romantic comedy feature screenplay she wrote and will direct, one of only eight projects selected.