Ashley Renders
- Producer
Ashley Renders has held the role of Associate Producer at Scythia Films since 2021. In 2020, Ashley attended the Film and Television Business program at Centennial College where she received extensive training in funding and finance, international co-production, legal agreements and tax credits for film and television. She also gained a strong foundation in the Canadian funding and financing systems. She now works exclusively in business affairs with a focus on international productions based in Canada.
Before joining Scythia Films, Ashley was a production coordinator at Associated Producers Ltd. in Toronto where she worked on Enslaved: The Slave Trade as Told From the Ocean Floor hosted by Samuel L. Jackson. Ashley got her start in the film and television industry as an Associate Producer at VICE Canada where she produced Daily VICE -- a first-of-its-kind news and culture show delivered exclusively on mobile phones and social media. She then moved on to Postmedia where she oversaw video strategy for dozens of newspapers across Canada, including National Post, Financial Post and Vancouver Sun.
Before working in film and television, Ashley was a journalist covering climate change and the oil and gas industry in Canada. In 2014, Ashley was a Global Journalism Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and the University of Toronto, and in 2010 she completed a Masters degree in Conflict Studies and Human Rights at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Ashley holds dual citizenship in Canada and the Netherlands, and is currently based in southwestern Ontario.
Before joining Scythia Films, Ashley was a production coordinator at Associated Producers Ltd. in Toronto where she worked on Enslaved: The Slave Trade as Told From the Ocean Floor hosted by Samuel L. Jackson. Ashley got her start in the film and television industry as an Associate Producer at VICE Canada where she produced Daily VICE -- a first-of-its-kind news and culture show delivered exclusively on mobile phones and social media. She then moved on to Postmedia where she oversaw video strategy for dozens of newspapers across Canada, including National Post, Financial Post and Vancouver Sun.
Before working in film and television, Ashley was a journalist covering climate change and the oil and gas industry in Canada. In 2014, Ashley was a Global Journalism Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and the University of Toronto, and in 2010 she completed a Masters degree in Conflict Studies and Human Rights at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Ashley holds dual citizenship in Canada and the Netherlands, and is currently based in southwestern Ontario.