Pure: The Feature

PURE | narrative feature film | in DEVELOPMENT

THE STORY BEHIND PURE CONTINUES…

Writer/Director Natalie Jasmine Harris is currently adapting Pure into a feature-length script of the same name that she hopes to become her feature film debut alongside award-winning film producer, Avril Speaks.

Logline: For 17-year-old Celeste, moving to her grandmother’s affluent Black community means following family tradition and becoming a debutante… but she longs for a different kind of coming out.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

• Film Independent Amplifier Fellowship (2024)

• New Orleans Film Festival Southern Producers Lab (2022)

• Film Independent Fast Track (2022)

• The WIF x The Sundance Institute Financing Intensive (2022)

• The InsideOut Toronto LGBT Film Festival Financing Forum (2022)

• Advanced to Round 2 of The Sundance Institute Development Track (2022)

• The Outfest Screenwriters Lab (2021)

• The Gotham Week - Project Market, U.S. Features (2021)

• SFFILM Rainin Grantee in Screenwriting (2021)

• Finalist for The Black List x Women In Film Feature Residency (2021)

• Finalist for The New Orleans Film Festival’s Narrative South Pitch Competition (2020)

• Finalist for The Athena Film Festival Writers Lab (2020)