Screen/Society--AMI Showcase-Alumni Filmmaker Homecoming Series--An Evening with Peter Jordan '01

Screening+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. 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. His projects with children from Darfur were awarded a Gold Medal from the United Nations and nominated for the Seeds of Tolerance Award. His latest 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. Peter currently works for Facebook, managing the film unit of its internal creative agency, called The Factory. / Works to be screened: "A Different Kind of Gun" (2007, 15 min) / "The First Kid to Learn English from Mexico" (2008, 20 min) / "People You May Know" (2012, 3 min) / "The Dawn Wall" (2013, 5 min) / "Facebook Search" (2013, 90 sec) / "Every One of Us" (2013, 1 min).