- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- In addition to being a prolific creative writer with 7 screenplays, 75 feature articles, a children's book, published novella and science book publications, Ms. Jasmin Naficy is a Biomedical and Science Writer and Research Scientist with 20+ years' experience writing proposals/reports and interviewing experts for Federal/DOD/military customers, including: DARPA, DHA, HHS, NIH, NIAID, FDA, CDC, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, USAF, Pentagon/DOD, USACE, DHS, NASA, Department of State, CBP, Bureau of Prisons, VA. Since 2001, her proposals have won Government contracts worth over $20B. Jasmin has supported hundreds of clients in defense, architecture/engineering, biomedical science, disaster planning/emergency management, aerospace/space tourism, data analysis, strategic planning, medical computing, Health IT, and filmmaking/writing. With an 80%+ win-rate, Jasmin writes compliant, compelling proposals for large contracts. Her analytical work has supported officials worldwide. Since the pandemic began, she served as Lead Writer/Manager for a $70M NASA Human Spaceflight RFP response. She was offered a role overseeing the first COVID vaccine rollout at FDA, rebid her winning $1B Afghanistan defense fuels contract, and wrote the first account of NIAID's Phase 1 Research used to create the COVID-19 vaccine (instruments/computations). Jasmin holds Masters degrees in Earth Sciences (UK), Aerospace Engineering (France), undergraduate work in Architecture (USA), and Medical Sciences coursework in Oxford and Baltimore.
Ms. Naficy works on her creative projects between contracts. She has financed small projects, including portions of an AFM Award-winning documentary ('The Three Hikers', from the same producer as 'The September Tapes') in 2015. She has also financed production development, professional book illustrations, and an art film. Her Executive Producer/Financier partner has sold over 20 films to Netflix & Univeral during the 2020-2022 Pandemic lockdown.
Ms. Naficy turns real-world elements into very interesting movies that are, alas, still fictional. A long-time fan of Tom Clancy, her hope is that like in the 1980s, people will get along and try "Hands Across America" again.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anon
- Yasmin was raised on a steady diet of Star Wars, adventure travel, and SCUBA. Her aspirations include being a space tourist and honing her Jedi skill sets.
- Ms. Naficy balances a full-time scientific and writing career with distinguished clients like NASA, USAID, U.S. Congress and others in addition to working on her film productions. On average, Ms. Naficy gets about four hours of sleep per night.
- Yasmin's screenplays for "The Rogue", "Liberty", "Midnight Cry", and her space movie "Jupiter vs. Mars" are all based on some of her lifelong recurrent, lucid dreams, which she was asked to start notarizing in 2007.
- Ms. Naficy took Commander Chris Hadfield, astronaut, musician, and former Space Shuttle pilot, SCUBA diving in the Red Sea, Egypt, hovering over a deep underwater canyon covered in pink soft corals. These precious, otherworldly reefs are now endangered by construction plans between Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
- Ms. Naficy funded the editing of the award-winning documentary '3 Hikers', which won one of just 10 'AFI Docs' Awards in 2015. Ms. Naficy also arranged a rare interview with Bruce Laingen, the last U.S. Ambassador to Tehran. '3 Hikers' is available on all mainstream cable platforms and has won many other awards. Though not an acquaintance of the young Hikers, Ms. Naficy was presented with the project by the compelling team and had the means to assist.
- Just as fear breeds more fear, courage breeds more courage.
- The measurement of time is linear. The experience of it is not.
- In rock-climbing the Great Wall of Life, you may be hanging by one hand off a cliff over the desert valley below, but it's an awesome view, isn't it?
- Celebrate every milestone on your path to "success"... It's the journey that builds all the fond memories. The end result is just the after-party.
- There's no bigger honor an artist can have than to share their passion and gifts with the world.
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