Jordan Schiele

Jordan Schiele is a filmmaker and educator born in Brooklyn. An early fascination with China led him to study Mandarin and spend much of his adult life in Shanghai and Beijing. He earned his MFA from NYU Tisch Asia in Singapore.

His first feature, San Fu Tian (Dog Days), was selected for the Cannes Residence, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, and was released theatrically in China. His feature documentary The Silk and the Flame also premiered at Berlinale and received the Clark Legacy Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival. His fiction short Turtle premiered at the New York Film Festival and won the Coppola Short Film Awards. Earlier work includes the docu-drama 5cm, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, and the shorts Prank and Canvas, recipients of jury prizes from Louis Vuitton’s Journeys Awards, with jurors Wong Kar-wai and Luca Guadagnino.

Working across fiction and documentary, Jordan’s films explore family, intimacy, and the ways people struggle to connect across cultural and emotional divides. He has also directed short films for Estée Lauder and Louis Vuitton. An avid photographer, he teaches writing and directing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Courses

Advanced Production Workshop; Intermediate Narrative Workshop; Sight & Sound Filmmaking; Preparing the Screenplay; Storytelling Strategies