Natalie Jasmine Harris is an award-winning Black queer writer, director, producer, and film programmer from Maryland. Natalie received her BFA in Film and Television from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently a 2024/2025 Sundance Ignite Fellow and has participated in artist programs with Film at Lincoln Center, GLAAD, Outfest, and more. Natalie's most recent short film, GRACE, had its world premiere at The 2024 Sundance Film Festival and is currently on a film festival run with plans to release online in 2025. PURE, Natalie’s NYU thesis short film, received The Directors Guild of America's Student Film Award and was acquired by HBOMax. Natalie is currently in development on a feature-length version of PURE, which she hopes to become her debut feature. The project has garnered support from SFFILM's Rainin Screenwriting Grant, The Gotham Week Project Market, Outfest's Screenwriting Lab, The Toronto LGBTQ+ Financing Forum, Film Independent Fast Track, and The Women In Film x Sundance Financing Intensive. Natalie is also an emerging commercial director, having directed spots for Hyundai and Verizon. She has been hired to direct documentary short films as well by TIME Magazine, YouTube, and the Academy-Award Winning Breakwater Studios. As a producer, Natalie has worked on independent films and with media brands such as Vogue Magazine, Vanity Fair, Paramount, LogoTV, and more. Recently, she also has worked as a film programmer, helping bring to life QUEER RHAPSODY, a film series that brought LGBTQ+ films to Los Angeles in partnership with American Cinematheque, The Broad, and Vidiots. While her films span many different genres and forms, Natalie is primarily invested in using her passion for filmmaking to capture coming-of-age experiences, center joy, and reimagine liberation for marginalized communities. Her work has been featured in publications that include Teen Vogue, THEM Magazine, Huffington Post, The Cut, NBC, Baltimore Sun, W Magazine, and more.