

Her other interests include food and dance, so when she’s not working on films she can often be found testing new recipes in the kitchen or in a jazz, blues, Bollywood, or samba class.

She specializes in Final Cut and Premiere editing and at ZAP also handles DVD and Blu-ray authoring, After Effects work, and the screening room. Through her varied work for San Francisco startups and small businesses as well as one of the leading technology news websites, TechCrunch, Ashley has experience with shooting, editing, television studio operation, live web streaming, and film archiving. After earning her degree in Cinema from San Francisco State University, she began working in video production in the Silicon Valley startup scene. Since 2009, ZAP has been providing creative and technical finishing services for independent filmmakers.Īshley Pagán is a San Francisco born and raised editor. Notable early ZAP work included 2005’s “The Outsiders – The Complete Novel,” “Apocalypse Now – The Complete Dossier,” “The Godfather – The Coppola Restoration” and the 2009 15th anniversary re-release of the Robert Zemeckis 1993 film “Forrest Gump” on Blu-ray. These included restorations of classic films, creating great documentaries about those films for the home video audience and continuing our work as a boutique post facility and DVD design and authoring facility. In early 2005, ZAP took over American Zoetrope’s in-progress post production work and embarked on its own production and post production projects. ZAP was founded by Zoetrope’s former head of Post Production and long-time Coppola collaborator, Kim Aubry. ZAP grew out of Francis Coppola’s American Zoetrope, a San Francisco film studio and post production facility.
