Screening and Filmmaker Q&A

Peter Jordan is an award-winning filmmaker who has produced films for international and grassroots organizations in more than 15 countries.

He received a BA in English and a Certificate in Film & Video from Duke University in 2001. After graduation, he worked as a Hart Fellow in Kenya, where he taught children to make their own films, using plastic video cameras and a solar powered computer. In 2008, he completed an MFA in documentary filmmaking at Stanford. His work has appeared in the U.S. on PBS and in the New York Times, and at dozens of film festivals worldwide. His projects with children from Darfur were awarded a Gold Medal from the United Nations and nominated for the Seeds of Tolerance Award.
 
Jordan's 2008 film, The First Kid to Learn English from Mexico, won four international awards including an IDA award and best short nomination at the International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam. As an advocate his films have screened at the World Social Forum, the United States Congress, the International Conference on AIDS, and the United Nations.

Peter currently works for Facebook, managing the film unit of its internal creative agency, called The Factory, and produces films for the Internet.org initiative, which aims to bring basic internet access to everyone in the world.

Works to be screened:

A Different Kind of Gun (2007, 15 min)
Told in children's voices and filmed in part by their own eyes, this film takes us into the hearts of children caught in the crossfire of Sudan’s civil wars.
Winner of the United Nations Gold Medal.

The First Kid to Learn English from Mexico (2008, 20 min)

Through the eyes of 9-year-old Pedro, this short documentary portrays the magic, the nightmare and mystery, the isolation and odd friendships, the trouble and anger, and the glimmers of hope of a childhood reluctantly spent chasing the American Dream.   [view trailer]
Winner of the IDA prize for Best Student Documentary.

People You May Know (2012, 3 min)
A man pieces together the relationships that constitute his life after waking one day to discover his memories have vanished.

The Dawn Wall (2013, 5 min)
Seven years in the making, this is the story of Tommy Caldwell’s historic attempt to free climb a 3000ft granite rock face, one of the most difficult climbs ever attempted.

Facebook Search (2013, 90 sec)
What if your most powerful memories were accessible with a keystroke?

Every One of Us (2013, 1 min)
What if every person on the planet was connected to everyone else?

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

Sponsors: The Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI) and the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS).