Jacqueline Romano is a New York–born, Italy-based filmmaker and story & visibility director whose work lives where the sacred meets human rights. Across two decades and more than 30 countries, she has built her own platforms for stories that too often go untold.

In 2016, she founded Blindfoldmag.com, a digital magazine telling the stories of activists and advocates from underrepresented communities worldwide, and created its Blindfold Mini Doc series, which drew more than 200,000 views and was featured on Viola Davis’s platform. Through Romopro, the certified LGBTBE production company she founded, she produced impact documentaries and campaigns from 2019 to 2023: Ocean’s Harbor House was a 2023 SIMA Awards finalist, and the company’s campaign work won the Dejunius Hughes Award for Activism. For founders and non-profit organizations like the Institute of Contemporary Arts, she led narrative strategy and created documentary impact films.

Her eye has also helped shaped other filmmakers’ work on major stages: she was director of photography/camera operator on Who Killed Alex Odeh?, which screened at Sundance and the Berlinale, and has edited documentaries and series that have been platformed on PBS, and developed visual identities for production companies featured on HBO.

Today she directs short films, creates video art exhibitions and takes on documentaries selectively. Ritual is her method as much as her subject: each project begins in ceremony, and the medium follows from what the story asks for. She is currently writing A Blessing of Time, her first narrative feature, drawn from her ancestral lineage, and developing a documentary about reconnecting to the sacred roots of ancient ceremonies. Alongside her own films, Jacqueline guides directors, artists and public figures to the heart of what they are here to create, through a process that weaves spiritual practice, story and direction.