Tonya Kay

Hewes Pictures has delivered the experimental short The Ascension Of Ava Delaine to Amazon Prime Video. Running at just five minutes and seven seconds, it may not sound like much, but it took a lot of effort to pull off. You see, the short was shot entirely by drone, in one take, by one woman who had to change wardrobe multiple times. That woman was horror icon Tonya Kay (D-RAILED, EVIL BONG 777, GIRL ON THE THIRD FLOOR), who also directed the short. How did she pull it off? “What you see from the drone front is the movie,” says Kay. “What was happening behind those walls was a whirlwind of rambunctious nudity and focused determination.” We bet. “Everyone has seen single-takes performed horizontally – even on a drone. I wanted to challenge the technology and give viewers something they’ve truly never witnessed before: a story-based single-take that travels vertically – voyeuristically meeting our actress on a new floor, in new wardrobe, in a new decade of her life, with