Ash Mayfair was born in Vietnam and educated in the UK and the US. Her critically acclaimed first feature, THE THIRD WIFE (a 2015 Purple List selection) garnered nineteen awards, screened at over seventy international film festivals, and distributed in thirty countries. Mayfair’s followup drama SKIN OF YOUTH won a Special Mention at Talents Tokyo, the Open SEA Fund Award at SE Asia Fiction Film Lab, and also won the Sorfond Award at the Busan Asian Film Market. The project was presented at the Berlinale European Co-Production Market in 2020 and is shortlisted for the Cannes women directors initiative ‘Breaking Through The Lens.’ SKIN OF YOUTH focuses on the turbulent romance between a transgender sex worker seeking to realise her dream of living in a woman’s body, and an Saigon cage fighter in 1998. In addition to its trandgender narrative, the film explores personal and political freedom.“In the nineties, Communist Vietnam opened up when the U.S. lifted the trade embargo on the country. Overnight Saigon changed into an exciting new world where films, fashion, money, and music poured in from the West bringing with them the promises of sexual and personal liberation. Vietnamese youths like myself were able to see examples of freedom everywhere, and yet we were not allowed to embrace and live it in our own reality.” says Mayfair.
Email (Manager): Jeffrey Thal, jthal@ensembleent.com
Email (Agent): Christina Chou, christina.chou@caa.com
Ruby Kaye, ruby.kaye@caa.com