Short Film Screening & Talkback with Natalie Jasmine Harris

Short Film Screening and talkback with filmmaker Natalie Jasmine Harris

PURE (2020) 12 minutes. On the eve of her cotillion ball, Celeste, a
seventeen-year-old closeted poet, experiences and unexpected new love
that shifts her role in the traditional rite of passage ceremony. PURE
was directed, written, and produced by Natalie Jasmine Harris.

Natalie Jasmine Harris is a Black queer filmmaker based in NYC. She
received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in May 2020. For
her work on "Pure," Natalie received The 2020 Directors Guild of
America’s Student Film Award and many other commendations from film
festivals that include NewFest, Outfest, The British Film Institute,
ABFF, The Pan African Film Festival, and many more. Pure has had a
film festival run with over 40 screenings worldwide and several
nominations for Academy-Qualifying Awards. The film will be released
on HBO/HBOMax in February 2022 after placing as a Finalist in The
American Black Film Festival's HBO Short Competition. Natalie is
simultaneously developing "Pure" into a feature-length screenplay.

Filmmaker Reception @ 4:15
248 N. 3^rd Street

 Free public event on the Williams Arts Campus