JEANNE JORDAN has been making documentary and dramatic films for over twenty years. The Independent said of her resume, "it reads like PBS's greatest hits."

Troublesome Creek: a Midwestern (co-directed with Steven Ascher) was nominated for an Academy Award, won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance and many other awards. It was released theatrically and broadcast on PBS The American Experience, the BBC premier documentary strand Storyville, ZDF Germany and many others.

Jordan and Ascher's most recent feature documentary, So Much So Fast, premeried at Sundance, was released theatrically to critical acclaim, and has been broadcast on PBS FRONTLINE, BBC Storyville, ZDF Germany, and many other networks around the world.

Jordan has been Series Producer of the PBS children's series Postcards from Buster and is working on a new, international version of the show.

Jordan edited two films of the groundbreaking civil rights series Eyes on the Prize which won an Emmy Award and the DuPont Columbia Award, and films for American Experience, including season opener, Amelia Earhart and The Wright Stuff. Other editing includes My Mother's Murder for HBO and the Emmy-nominee, A Normal Face for NOVA.

Her dramatic feature work includes several films for American Playhouse, including Noon Wine, Lemon Sky and the Emmy-winning series Concealed Enemies on the trials of Alger Hiss. She edited the bilingual feature, Blue Diner which won the prestigious ALMA award.

In 1988, Jordan and Orlando Bagwell produced Running With Jesse, a chronicle of Jesse Jackson's presidential run for FRONTLINE, which Jordan also edited. She has produced and edited several pieces for Newshour with Jim Lehrer and for the PBS series Art Close Up, which won an Emmy.

Jordan graduated from the University of Iowa and began her career at Iowa Public Television. She has twice been honored with a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and she was a member of the Breadloaf writers conference. She has taught filmmaking at Harvard and the Art Institute of Boston and held master classes around the world.

Her other awards and honors include the Prix Italia, a Peabody award, an International Documentary Association Distinguished Achievement Award and she was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award. She has received grants from the LEF Foundation and numerous state humanities and arts councils. Her films have screened at festivals internationally, including the Sydney Film Festival (Audience Award Winner), San Francisco Film Festival (Audience Award Winner) and they are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, Harvard and UCLA.

Jordan's writing on films has appeared in Documentary Magazine.

Writing on Jordan's work has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe and books including Documentary Storytelling by Sheila Curren Bernard.

Interviews and discussions can be found at The Washington Post,
Indiewire and PBS.