艾什莉·麦肯齐（Ashley McKenzie），Born in Nova Scotia, Canada in 1984, she studied English and film studies and then made short films at the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative in Halifax and the National Screen Institute in Winnipeg. Her debut feature film Werewolf screened in the Berlinale Forum and won the most generously endowed film prize in Canada, the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award presented by the Toronto Film Critics Association. She is an alumna of Berlinale Talents.