Jacqueline Castel is an American-born French and Canadian[1][2][3] film director, screenwriter, and curator based in New York City.

[14] Castel moved to New York City to attend NYU Film School and worked at Kim's Video and Music in the East Village.

[15][16] She met Sacred Bones Records founder Caleb Braaten while hosting a show at WNYU Radio, and began directing music videos for the label.

[19] Her 2014 short documentary 13 Torches For A Burn focused on the contemporary underground Danish music scene, and spotlighted the punk band Iceage.

[26] In 2018 Castel collaborated with David Lynch on short film "Curtains Up," an adaptation of his book, Catching the Big Fish about Transcendental Meditation.