Ashley William Morris is a neurodivergent producer and director from the West Midlands, whose work centres on themes of class, poverty, and family. In 2024, funded by BFI Doc Society for his short documentary Do You See What I See?, which explores the cost-of-living crisis through the lens of female shoplifters in Derbyshire. In 2022, he was supported by the BFI for his short film Home Movie, inspired by old family photographs and memories of growing up in a poorer working-class household.
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In 2019, Ashley was selected for Channel 4’s emerging talent scheme, 4Stories, and went on to direct Adulting for the BAFTA-winning On the Edge anthology. The film went on to win a BAFTA Cymru Award. In 2021, he was put forward for a BAFTA award for emerging talent, supported by Channel 4 and Blacklight TV.
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2025, he produced the BFI funded short THE BUTCHER. An all you can eat horror comedy. Written and directed by Selina Mosinski & Stuart Edwards.
His work has been screened at Aesthetica Film Festival, Derby Film Festival, Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, BFI Southbank, London Short Film Festival, Folkstone Documentary Film Festival, broadcast on Portugal Arts Channel and Channel 4. Ashley is currently developing a body of work titled LOAF, which frames working-class narratives through a lo-fi visual aesthetic
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