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Jazmine Smith
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Jazmine Smith looks over her shoulder with a slight smile. Jazmine is a Cree person with light skin, blond hair in loose curls, and wearing makeup. The words " I am me" are super-impossed in the bottom right in a white cursive scrawl.

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Jazmine Smith looks over her shoulder with a slight smile. Jazmine is a Cree person with light skin, blond hair in loose curls, and wearing makeup. The words " I am me" are super-impossed in the bottom right in a white cursive scrawl.
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Biography

Jazmine Smith grew up on Flying Dust First Nation, a Cree reserve located in North-Western Saskatchewan. She’s always had a passion for beauty and style and attended beauty schools in Saskatchewan, Alberta and soon British Columbia. Jazmine runs Transcendence Beauty studio, geared towards helping transgender woman, crossdressers and drag queens. She is the eldest of three children, with a younger brother and sister, a beautiful loving, supporting mother and stepfather. Family is everything to her. She married her loving husband Spencer Smith in Las Vegas and lives in North Vancouver BC with their two dogs. She is currently attending Business Administration classes online and plans to further her education in beauty and film.

Native Spirit Festival. “I Am Me,” 2020. https://nativespiritfestival.festivee.com/i-am-me-2.

I attended beauty school in Calgary, certified make up artist and nail technician. Owning a beauty business out of my home ,geared towards helping transgender woman, drag queens and crossdressers. Also being an artisian with my husband, doing native themed sterling silver jewelry, and apparel. Ive also started producing and making wine , with proceeds going towards transgender surgeries. Also starting a two spirited ribbon skirt line and jewelry Ive worked with Quanah Napoleon and Wapikoni to produce a short film, about my life. Which is a 5 min video of me and inspiring others to succeed no matter where you come from. Thats what i was hoping to make a documentary on. Ive done voice over, directing and designing. I have written business grants for myself to expand my beauty business.

Storyhive. “Jazmine Smith,” n.d. https://www.storyhive.com/creators/75244.

Jazmine Smith is a Vancouver-based filmmaker, entrepreneur, and model who grew up on Flying Dust First Nation, a Cree reserve located in North-Western Saskatchewan. She has a passion for beauty and style and is currently finishing up classes in education in the field of Computer technology, Coding, Web development, and GIS/GPS Mapping. Jazmine is driven by Indigenous queer stories that inspire and motivate others and dismantle stereotypes about the queer community. She is the founder and owner of a beauty studio called Transcendence Beauty, which is intended towards helping transgender women, crossdressers, and drag queens. Jazmine’s latest film “I Am Me” (2018) played in many film festivals around the world and won Best Documentary at the 300 Seconds Short Film Festival 2020 (Toronto) as well as the Audience Award at Skoden Film Festival 2020 (Vancouver). “I Am Me” received a mention in Vogue Magazine for the ImagineNATIVE Film Festival 2019 and aired across Canada on APTN and CBC through Every Child Matters, a program for residential school reconciliation and healing. She participates in Q&As about Indigenous queer cinema and short films to break the misconceptions regarding two-spirited culture. The support and love from her family and friends is something Jazmine values in her life and art.

British Columbia Assembly of First Nations. “Planning Advisory Committee,” n.d. https://events.bcafn.ca/women-genderdiverse-2slgbtqqia-dialogue-2022/planning-advisory-committee/.

Jazmine Gladue-Smith grew up on Flying Dust First Nation, a Cree reserve located in North-Western Saskatchewan. She’s always had a passion for grace and style and attended beauty schools in Saskatchewan, Alberta and now British Columbia. She runs a beauty studio out of her home, Jazzyjazz Style & Beauty, which is geared towards helping transgender woman, cross-dressers and drag queens. She is the eldest of three children, having a younger brother and sister, a beautiful loving, supporting mother and stepfather. Family is everything to her. She recently married her dear husband Spencer Smith in Las Vegas and moved to Vancouver, BC. The couple have two small fur babies and run an Indigenous jewelry business called Grizzly Turtle Jewelry & Art. Her future plans are to travel the world with her husband bringing beauty, jewelry and love to everyone they met.

Centre International D’Art Contemporain De Montreal. “Jazmine Smith,” n.d. http://ciac.ca/en/jazmine-smith-2/.
Filmography
  • I Am Me

    film/video, 2019

    Director, Producer, Writer/Screenwriter/Story, Actor

References
Letterboxd. “I Am Me,” n.d. https://letterboxd.com/film/i-am-me-2020/.