Jacqueline Castel

Jacqueline Castel is an American-born French and Canadian film director, screenwriter, and curator based in New York City. Her debut feature film, My Animal, starring Bobbi Salvör Menuez and Amandla Stenberg, world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023 and was released theatrically by Paramount.

Castel has written for and directed such established auteurs as John Carpenter and Jim Jarmusch, and has collaborated with David Lynch. She is the in-house director for the record label Sacred Bones Records, and has directed music videos for Alan Vega, Zola Jesus, The Soft Moon, and Pharmakon.