Who We Are
Amy Grey began her career working for the rock band Kansas. Grey was one of the first female tour publicists to travel on worldwide concert tours with David Bowie (Serious Moonlight Tour), Prince (Purple Rain) and John Mellencamp (Scarecrow). In 2007, Dish Communications was chosen as the PR firm for the worldwide Police Reunion Tour.
Grey worked at Rogers and Cowan, a PR firm, before launching Dish Communications Inc. in 1991 specializing in documentary films.
Dish Communications has helped clients garner 55 Academy Award® nominations and 16 wins, including a Best Documentary Feature award for Amy and Netflix’s first Oscar® win for the documentary short The White Helmets. Dish Communications has also represented many festival award-winning films as well as films that have garnered Emmy and Peabody awards.
Dish has represented documentary filmmakers including Werner Herzog, Rory Kennedy, Brett Morgen, Alex Gibney, Roger Ross Williams, Cynthia Wade, Jessica Yu, the late Al Maysles, among many, many others.
Ashley Mariner began her career in public relations, marketing and promotions in 2003 at Clear Channel Communications in Raleigh, NC where she eventually oversaw the on-air promotions and off-site remotes for four different radio stations.
Mariner then moved to Atlanta to join Upshaw & Richey, a boutique entertainment public relations and marketing firm specializing in independent film. While there, she managed regional marketing projects for clients like Miramax Films, the Oscar®-winning production company Ginny Mule Pictures and Regent Releasing.
In 2006, Mariner moved to Los Angeles and joined Dish Communications. In her time at Dish, she has worked on PR and awards campaigns for several Academy Award®-winning and nominated documentary films and Emmy Award-winning television programs; traveled as one of the tour publicists for the Police Reunion Tour, which is still one of the highest grossing tours of all time; and acted as the media liaison for the International Documentary Association. Mariner has also coordinated press campaigns for many award-winning films at the Sundance Film Festival, the Toronto Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, the SXSW Film Conference and Festival and AFI Fest. During her time at Dish, she has worked with world-famous filmmakers like Werner Herzog, Rory Kennedy, Brett Morgen and Sean and Andrea Fine. In addition, Mariner has managed media outreach for HBO Corporate’s West Coast Events Office, and in that capacity, has worked on highly successful events for their programming, including Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones, Mildred Pierce, Magic & Bird and Teenage Paparazzo. Mariner has also strategized and coordinated creative and unique awards campaigns for several Oscar®–winning documentary features and shorts, including Amy, Period. End of Sentence., Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (if you’re a girl) and The White Helmets, which was Netflix’s first Academy Award®-winning film.
Mariner is a member of Film Independent and the International Documentary Association.