Mollye Asher - Academy Award Winning Producer of NOMADLAND

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Mollye Asher is an Academy Award winning Producer who takes on bold and sometimes risky projects.

We are lucky to be catching her at time when those risks have paid off in a big way.

“Nomadland”, her third collaboration with writer/director Chloé Zhao was the big winner at this year’s Academy Awards. The film took home Oscars for best picture, best actress for Frances McDormand and best director for Chloé, the first woman of color to win the award.

Her producing credits are vast, so I won’t rattle them off here, but some highlights include Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ Swallow and Chloé Zhao’s The Rider, which premiered in the 2017 Cannes Directors Fortnight and won its top prize. It went on to be nominated for four Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Picture, and won Best Feature at the 2018 Gotham Awards.

Mollye is also a co-founder of the production company, The Population alongside Derek Nguyen and Mynette Louie, another badass producer who was recently on the show!

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 Chloé Zhao.