ABOUT NAOMI

As an experienced producer, director, cinematographer, and editor, Naomi enjoys all aspects of filmmaking, and passionately supports emerging filmmakers. Since 2017, she has been involved in youth development and filmmaking mentorship, working with BAYCAT, the Latino Film Institute and the California Film Institute. Her role as a filmmaking instructor and Producer at BAYCAT allows her to be connected to San Francisco youth, which informs her work in the local media landscape. As a queer femme filmmaker, Naomi is dedicated to providing and amplifying opportunities behind and in front of the camera for under-represented voices in the Bay Area film industry.  

In 2024 Naomi received a SF Arts Commission Grant for Artists to support the post-production of her documentary, Olas de Recuerdo (Memories of Salt), which is now in the film festival circuit.  Outside her work as a filmmaker, Naomi  is a saxophone player and singer with the artist La Doña and tours, playing music on iconic stages and at national and international festivals. 

CONTACT

naomi.pasmanick@gmail.com

Naomi Garcia Pasmanick (she/her) is a multilingual filmmaker, performer, and educator from San Francisco, CA. Stemming from a musical family of SFUSD public school teachers, Naomi had a creative foundation growing up, playing music and creating in community from a young age. Naomi earned her BA degree in Spanish and Portuguese Literature from UC Berkeley and began using her love of storytelling to make films in 2017. Naomi is interested in the themes of memory, sisterhood, and resistance, and strives to create beautiful and impactful work through narrative films, music videos, and documentaries. A deeply collaborative artist, she frequently works with other San Francisco-born and socially-minded artists.

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