JAZMIN ONTIVEROS HARVEY
Director & Cinematographer
Jazmín Harvey is a queer Latinx artist, director and cinematographer from the borderlands of New Mexico. She is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild (ICG Local 600) and was the Border Arts Resident in Fall of 2022. During her residency, Jazmín merged art and activism by hosting Queer Movie Nights in both El Paso and Juaréz and engaging the local community in conversations about representation, the ethics of filmmaking, and the power of a community oriented approach to storytelling. Her upcoming short film "A Bird and a Fish" was filmed during the residency, and will be released in summer of 2023.
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JAZMIN ONTIVEROS HARVEY
Jazmín’s path into the film industry began at the ACLU of Southern California, where she used her passion for social justice and storytelling to create short documentaries for the ACLU. This included coverage of the homelessness crisis Orange County, as well as a campaign titled "Students, Not Suspects" which focused on the school to prison pipeline in Los Angeles County. In 2016, Jazmín co-founded Femme Frontera in El Paso, TX. In 2017, she moved to Albuquerque, NM and joined the ICG Local 600. She has worked as a camera assistant on projects such as Finch (Apple TV), The Harder They Fall (Netflix), Outer Range (Amazon), and Dark Winds (AMC). Among other projects, Jazmín was the cinematographer for the award-winning short film "Seeds" directed by Morningstar Angeline and Ajuawak Kapashesit. Most recently, she collaborated with director StormMiguel Flores on a proof of concept reel for the upcoming film "Welcome to Roswell". Currently, Jazmín is a co-founder and mentor the organizers of Border Casita Queer, a collective of queer women artists and filmmakers on the border cities of El Paso and Juaréz dedicated to creating safe, sober, bilingual creative space for queers and allies.
