Aisha Ford

Aisha Ford is an award-winning filmmaker with a gift for gracefully humanizing complex issues and shining a spotlight on the forgotten people of her childhood. Art is her activism; she hopes her films inspire others to also speak their truth. Her films have screened at Academy Award and BAFTA-qualifying festivals, including Tribeca Festival and the American Black Film Festival. Her latest short film, Brownies, executive produced by Spike Lee, won Best Director at the Academy Award-qualifying Reel Sisters of the Diaspora. She is a recipient of the Tisch School of the Arts Dean’s Fellowship, the Spike Lee Film Production Grant, and the NYU Wasserman Award for her short film Royal. She also received the HBO Scholarship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 2025, her work screened at SXSW as part of the HERPower is Global showcase. She also directed the award-winning Dove x Ogilvy campaign As Early As Five. Most recently, her feature script, Little Rhonda, was selected for the NYU Purple List, advanced to the second round of the Sundance Film Festival Development Track, and was a semi-finalist in the Almanack Screenwriters lab.

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