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Connor Jessup and Ashley Shields-Muir are best friends and producing partners. They founded Big & Quiet Pictures together in 2014 to make personal, director-driven films with people they like. They live and work in Toronto.

 
 

 
 
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Connor is an actor and filmmaker best known for his leading roles in Netflix’s fantasy series Locke & Key and ABC’s Emmy-winning drama American Crime. He was named one of the 25 New Faces in Independent Film in 2016 by Filmmaker Magazine and has been featured in The New York Times, Interview, IndieWire and The Globe and Mail, among others.

His short films have played at major festivals around the world, including TIFF, Palm Springs and Clermont-Ferrand. In 2018, he directed a documentary portrait of Palme d’Or-winning Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul for The Criterion Collection. In 2019, he produced the omnibus film 30/30 Vision, which included new work by Ira Sachs, Catherine Breillat, Lulu Wang, Brady Corbet and more. He is currently in development on his debut narrative feature.

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Ashley is a producer and freelance production manager. After graduating from the University of Toronto, she began segment producing for various Canadian broadcasters and was an associate producer on the Emmy-nominated sci-fi series Falling Skies, produced by Steven Spielberg and Amblin Television. At Big & Quiet, Ashley has produced seven short films and a documentary, and has collaborated with The Criterion Collection, Metafilms, Bell Media and more.

In addition to her work at the company, Ashley works as a production manager and line producer on some of the biggest productions in Canada, most recently with Searchlight Pictures, Blumhouse, A24, Netflix, Amazon and MGM. She cares about movies and directors and remains excited about independent filmmaking.