Yasmine Mathurin is a Haitian Canadian filmmaker, most noted for her 2021 film One of Ours.
[2] Mathurin divided her time between Haiti and Montreal in childhood, before moving to Calgary as a teenager.
[1] After studying political science at York University in Toronto, she attained a fellowship at the United Nations in 2011, but became disenchanted with the bureaucratic aspects of politics and went back to school to study journalism.
[1] She subsequently created The Conversation Project, a web series in which she engaged her friends in conversation about Black Canadian culture and identity, and participated in a talent incubator run by Toronto film studio Refuge Productions to further develop her filmmaking skills.
[1] She was a producer of Tai Asks Why, a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation podcast and summer radio series.