Jomí García Ascot (24 March 1927 – 14 August 1986) was a poet, essayist, filmmaker, director and educator.

The son of a Spanish diplomat, he spent his childhood traveling from Portugal to France to Belgium and Morocco.

He also co-founded La Revista Presencia (Presence Magazine), where he began publishing poetry and film critiques.

[5] Between 1953 and 1957, he was director of several documentaries[1] collaborating on works significant to the history of Spanish-language film, including Raíces (Roots) by Benito Alazraki, which won an award at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival; Torero (1956), by Carlos Velo; Nazarín (1958), by Luis Buñuel; and Sonatas (1959) Juan Antonio Bardem.

[5] In 1958 he created, with his friends Jean-François Revel and José Luis González, the Mexican Cinema Club at the French Institute for Latin America (IFAL), which was highly regarded at the time.

[6] In the early 1960s, a group of leftist scholars who were aspiring filmmakers formed what they dubbed Nuevo Cine (New Film).

[5] Shooting only on weekends because the trio all had regular jobs, the film took a year to produce and was not a commercial success, though it did win awards.