Jacqueline Castel

Jacqueline Castel is an American-born French-Canadian[1][2] film director, screenwriter, and curator based in New York City.[3][4][5] Castel's work has screened at the Sundance Film Festival,[4] South by Southwest,[6] the Sitges Film Festival,[7] and the International Film Festival Rotterdam,[8] and she has written for and directed such established auteurs as John Carpenter[9] and Jim Jarmusch,[10] and has collaborated with David Lynch and Stella McCartney.[11][12] She is the in-house director for the record label Sacred Bones Records,[5] and has directed music videos for Zola Jesus,[13] The Soft Moon,[14] and Pharmakon.[15]

In 2011, Fader magazine named Castel a "Video Director to Watch,"[16] and in 2012, she released early short film Twelve Dark Noons as the first film release on the Sacred Bones imprint, which premiered at South by Southwest.[17] Castel's short film The Puppet Man world-premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016 and featured the acting debut of fashion model Crystal Renn.[18] Her 2014 short documentary 13 Torches For A Burn focused on the contemporary underground Danish music scene, and spotlighted the punk band Iceage.[19] In 2016, Castel began work as director on the feature-length documentary A Message from the Temple, about Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth, featuring English experimental singer and performance artist Genesis P-Orridge.[20][21] She co-wrote an erotic thriller with Sasha Grey that Castel will be directing in Tokyo,[22] and she will also be directing supernatural drama My Animal, from a script written by Jae Matthews of electronic group Boy Harsher.[23]