Director Ash Blodgett's Short MAY I PUT YOU ON HOLD? Begs the Answer: Are We Wasting Precious Time?

Award winning director Ash Blodgett who is passionate about telling stories that spotlight modern social issues through the lens of comedy.

Her short films have screened at major festivals around the world. In 2022, Ash was selected for the Women In Film Mentoring Program and was later hired to direct a live-action recreation of a scene from LAIKA Studios’ Oscar-nominated film ParaNorman to celebrate its 10-year anniversary.

Her 2023 short Good Grief won Best Cinematography at the Worldwide Women’s Film Festival, earning a $60K Panavision film grant, and she was named Best Female Director at the 2024 Central Coast International Film Festival. 

On her new short film, May I Put You On Hold, 80% of the cast and crew were women, and key roles were held by BIPOC and API creatives.

Ladies and gentlemen, Ash Blodgett’s short May I Put You On Hold? took five years to complete and was paused twice, once due to COVID and again during the dual WGA/SAG-AFTRA strikes. Along the way, they also faced wildfires and the unpredictable nature of indie filmmaking.

The film follows Liz who is suddenly transferred to the Afterlife while battling the absurdity of telephone customer service. There, she discovers it’s just as bureaucratic, frustrating, and illogical as Earth. Now stuck between eternity and hold music, Liz must navigate cosmic red tape and confront what really matters before she can return to the land of the living. But in doing so, she realizes she’s been putting the most important things in life on hold. How many of us are actually putting the important things in our life on hold?

How many people are actually waiting on us? We spent most of our time sleeping or waiting, but this film MAY I PUT YOU HOLD shows us that we have the power to stop waiting on the things that are actually important.

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