jasmine lynea (Director/ Writer) is a non-binary femme filmmaker, educator, and a multi-media futurist radically dreaming outside of this reality. curious about what lives between truth and myth, through their vibrant imagination, lynea presents unconventional ideas that have the possibility of becoming attainable in a liberating future.
Since graduating from Temple University, jasmine self-produced and directed two short films, Take 5 and Stay Black, Baby!, both screened at various national film festivals. in 2018, they became a high school film teacher at Samuel Fels, launching the Root and Branch Arts Festival with support from the Leeway Art and Change Grant. they were also awarded the 2020 Scribe Philadelphia Media Fund for their experimental short How to Survive a Mourning, which received an Honorable Mention at WWCC’s 16th Annual Juried Art Exhibition. as a 2022 BlackStar Philadelphia Filmmaker Lab fellow, they created the sci-fi fantasy short The Love Machine, which has been screened nationally and internationally. in 2023 they became a Mural Arts Fellow and a Flaherty Fellow in the Queer-World Mending program.
https://www.jasminelynea.info/
Grantee – Scribe Video Center PHILADELPHIA INDEPENDENT MEDIA FUND
Art Installation – The Love Machine [Reprise] – NextFab x Leeway Artist-in-Residence
Screening at BlackStar 2025 Della Can Fly!
Artist Talk and Fundraiser Event Video Recap
Audience Choice Award Winner #UWHFF25
GOOD GRIEF Film Project Filmmaker