Jeanelle Augustin Pro

Jeanelle Augustin is a Haitian-American film programmer at True/False Film Fest. Born in New York City, she is interested in the visual and sonic culture of the future - what does creative freedom for artists of color look and sound like? She is excited about the emergent strategies and creative solutions that artists offer to reimagine reality and build a more equitable future. She gravitates towards multi-channel works, installations, performances, and any new form of artistic expression with the potential to delight, inspire, and surprise. Most of all, she seeks projects that show us something new about the human condition, draw us closer together, and expand our understanding of reality. As a film programmer, her work is particularly focussed on providing artists of color who are evolving cinematic language with opportunities to experiment in new mediums, blend genres, and overlap fields by increasing collaboration between indie film funders and distributors, arthouse cinemas, galleries, foundations, and contemporary art museums in order to build a new, more vibrant and inclusive field of vision.
Jeanelle studied Anthropology and Africana Studies at Williams College with short stints in Hawai’i, Berlin, and Haiti before completing her undergraduate degree graduating Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude at Fordham University. Her interest in visual storytelling, arts education, and aesthetics have since taken her from StoryCorps to Sundance Institute, where she worked in both the Documentary Film Program and New Frontier Lab Programs. She is a proud member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and is based in Los Angeles, CA.