Ashley Sidaway

Ashley Sidaway
Born	London, United Kingdom
Occupation	Film writer, producer, editor

Ashley Sidaway is a writer, producer and editor working in film and television. His films include Rainbow, Nouvelle-France and Joy Division as well as the long-running BBC TV series Best Of British.

As creator / writer and supervising film editor of Rainbow, Sidaway spent a year in post-production on the first all-digital movie released theatrically.

Sidaway's latest film is Into The Rainbow / The Wonder on which he is a writer and producer.

Sidaway was born in London, United Kingdom son of producer, writer, actor Robert Sidaway and actress Maggie Don.

He was educated at Brighton College and King's College London.

Ashley Sidaway trained as an Assistant Editor for editor John Daniels in London on sports and documentary TV programming between 1978-80.

In the summer of 1981 he was a production assistant in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico during the shoot of a pilot for the silent comedy series The Optimist and was subsequently assistant editor during post-production in Los Angeles. He then worked as a camera assistant / technical assistant for both the first season shot on location in Los Angeles during the summer of 1982 and the second season filmed in London during the summer of 1984. The series was first previewed on Channel 4’s opening night (2 November 1982) and the series commenced on 14 April 1983.

During 1984 and 1985 Sidaway worked for Crystal Film & Video in London as a freelance assistant cameraman to various independent production companies as well as on news / current affairs and documentary programmes for the BBC.

In 1986, Sidaway researched and contributed to the script of the BBC pilot on cinema newsreels Around The World In Seven Minutes And Four Times On Saturday, about the Pathé News and Movietone News cinema newsreels and their lead commentators Bob Danvers-Walker and Leslie Mitchell. and various pop-promos.

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