Iyari Creative is the home of the artistic works of Jackie Barragan.

Jackie directed and produced the short film JOSIE which has screened with the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center,  the Femme Frontera Filmmaker Showcase, the San Diego Latino Film Festival, the Philadelphia Latino Film Festival, UTEP Women’s History Month, and the Plaza Classic Film Festival where it won First Place and the Audience Choice Award. 

She directed, produced, and edited her short film documentary Ome Tlaloc: Ceremonial Tattoos and received a grant from PBS REEL South for it. Ome Tlaloc screened on the PBS “Only in El Paso” channel and has been a part of a variety of film festivals including being a nominee for the IDENTITIES Latin American Film Festival in the U.K.

Jackie has acted in independent short films and commercials and has worked as 1st Assistant Director, Production Coordinator, and Locations Manager.

In 2023, she was chosen to be a part of the PBS REEL South Hindsight program and completed her poetic documentary short, Echoes of the Rio, which premiered at the Hot Spring Documentary Film Festival and received the Audience Choice Award at the New Orleans Film Festival, Best Short Short Film at the Las Cruces International Film Festival, and Best Documentary Short Film at the MIRAA Media Fest.

Jackie the Co-Director of Femme Frontera, a film organization founded and led by women and gender-expansive filmmakers from the U.S.-Mexico border region of El Paso, Texas and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, México. Femme Frontera centers the experiences of women and gender-expansive people within the border diaspora, and generates resources for filmmakers whose lived border experiences inform their connection to those stories.