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Sumida House

Producing

Film, television, and live experience.

Production work strengthened by a background in business development, operations, recruiting and hiring. Building teams, workflows and partnerships, and carrying a creative vision from concept through execution.


Ash Sumida at a production monitor wearing headphones while a scene is filmed
Years creating in Austin
13+Years creating in Austin
Classes, workshops + programs
300+Classes, workshops + programs
Austin creatives activated
500+Austin creatives activated

In development

  • Sumi's Block

    In development

    Creator

    A children's series following Sumi and her neighbourhood friends through learning adventures. Built to teach kids depth, feeling and spiritual literacy without ever talking down to them.

  • Woke World

    In development

    Creator / Producer

    Twelve certified guides in the spiritual and wellness world go three months deeper into their own healing, gamified, with every episode's challenge earning money for a cause they carry. Conflict isn't edited out; it's the point.

  • Peaking

    In production

    Associate Producer

    A feature film built alongside Peak State, a five-day Austin music and arts experience that activated 500+ artists, performers, organisers and crew.

  • An outdoor film set at dusk, camera operator kneeling to frame an actor lit in red
  • A camera rolling on a scene between two people
  • Ash Sumida addressing a seated room
  • A crew filming on location beside a painted wall
  • Ash Sumida photographing on location
  • Ash Sumida shooting with a Canon DSLR

Selected credits

  • Door11 Studios

    Associate Producer

    Current focus. Feature and series development, alongside director Brent Pella and executive producer Sarah Craig.

  • Next Level Chef (FOX), BiggerStage / Ramsay Studios

    Talent Producer

    Currently off-season.

  • Peaking

    Associate Producer

    Feature film and immersive festival.

  • Wellfair Media

    Co-Founder

Full credit list available on IMDb.

Peak State / Peaking

Execution at scale

A community-first production model built through Austin's creative ecosystem

Peak State, a five-day Austin music and arts experience developed alongside Peaking, demonstrated the ability to coordinate a large multidisciplinary creative ecosystem while keeping community participation at the center. The project brought together artists, performers, organizers, crew and collaborators across live programming and film production.

An outdoor festival build, banners raised across an open field

What I bring to production

Team building
Recruiting, hiring, role clarity and placing the right people around a shared mission.
Operations
Systems, workflows, schedules, accountability, logistics and calm decision-making across moving parts.
Business development
Partnership building, community relationships, outreach, negotiation and aligning collaborators around mutual value.
Public experience
Artist coordination, communications, audience care and designing spaces where participation feels intentional.

What collaborators say

Ash elevated this project above and beyond its original vision through her creative approach toward activating community across live events, social media initiatives, and intentional communication that brought together hundreds of artists from the Austin area. She's the most respected, experienced, and detail-oriented collaborator I've worked with in a capacity that brings people together under a shared mission.
Brent PellaDirector / Writer · Door11 Studios
She creates opportunities and space for artists to collaborate and grow, which in turn blesses the community with enriching artistry that is healing, educational, and pleasing. The Austin and Texas communities are lucky to have her. She was invaluable to our project.
Sarah CraigExecutive Producer · Door11 Studios

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