Jordan and Ascher's most recent feature documentary, "So Much So Fast" (2007), 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.
She 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".
Jordan's 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 (2000) 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. Jordan's writing on films has appeared in Documentary Magazine.
Nominated for Achievement in Documentary Features 1995: TROUBLESOME CREEK: A MIDWESTERN - Producer (w. Steven Ascher)
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