Mollye Asher
Mollye Asher is Spirit and Gotham Award winning producer and winner of the 2020 Producers Award from the Film Independent Spirit Awards.
As of this past Sunday, she is also an Academy Award winning producer.
NOMADLAND which premiered at Venice (Golden Lion), was the big winner at this year’s Academy Award. The film took home Oscars for best picture, best actress for Frances McDormand and best director for Chloé Zhao, the first woman of color to win the award.
The film is her third collaboration with writer/director, Chloé Zhao.
Other credits include Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ "Swallow" (IFC Films), which won ‘Best Actress’ at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and was recently nominated for the Gotham Award’s Breakthrough Director, Chloé Zhao’s, “The Rider,” which won Best Feature in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and Best Picture at the Gotham Awards, SXSW Grand Jury Prize winner, "Fort Tilden,” Spirit Award nominated and Berlinale CICAE award winning film, "She’s Lost Control,” as well as Zhao’s debut feature "Songs My Brothers Taught Me" (Sundance, Cannes, Kino Lorber).
She recently co-founded the production company, The Population, and is currently in post- production on Josef Kubota Wladyka’s thriller, "Catch the Fair One,” executive produced by Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Films.
Mollye is an adjunct professor at Rutgers University, a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures, and alumna of NYU’s Graduate Film program.
This week, we dive deep into the what it means to be bold, how she circumvents the word NO, and the beginnings of her long time collaboration with Chloe Zhao.
Peter Spears, Frances McDormand, Chloé Zhao, Mollye Asher and Dan Janvey, winners of the Oscar for best picture for “Nomadland.” Pool photo by Chris Pizzello
Show Quotes:
“I actually think that the line producer job is quite as quite creative job. You need to understand the vision of the filmmaker, because you're the one that's deciding where you're putting the money. “
“I love so many things about it [producing], but I love the collaboration I love making something that seems impossible possible. “