Natalie Harris

Natalie Jasmine Harris is a Black queer filmmaker from Maryland currently based in New York City. She received her BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in May 2020. Her work spans narrative, documentary, commercial, and experimental forms but is centered around a mission to tell stories that capture coming-of-age experiences, showcase Black joy, and reimagine liberation for marginalized communities.

Her most recent short film "Pure" received The 2020 Directors Guild of America's Student Film Award and completed a film festival run that included over 40 festival screenings worldwide. The film received commendations from several film festivals that including ABFF, Outfest, The British Film Institute, The Hamptons International Film Festival, and The Pan African Film Festival. After placing as a Finalist in The 2021 American Black Film Festival's HBO Short Competition, "Pure" was acquired by HBO and is now streaming on HBOMax. The film was featured in articles from Teen Vogue, THEM Magazine, Huffington Post, The Cut, and many more.

Natalie is currently adapting the concept behind "Pure" into a feature-length film of the same name that has received support from SFFILM, The Gotham (formerly known as IFP), The Outfest Screenwriting Lab, The WIF x Sundance Institute Financing Forum, and The Toronto LGBTQ Financing Forum.

Natalie was recently selected as a Creative Culture Fellow at The Jacob Burns Film Center in New York, where she will be developing two new short films this year. Additionally, she has directed two commercials thus far -- one for Hyundai and another for Verizon.