Screenings / Exhibits / Presentations
The films I’ve produced, directed, and edited—across both narrative, documentary and commissioned projects—have been showcased at film festivals, museums, and libraries, with worldwide distribution and national PBS broadcasts.
2022 Logic Paralyzes The Heart
(Editor: Erica Jordan, Poducer/Director: Lynn Hershman
Debuted at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia - Special Jury prize
Mill Valley Film Festival
2020 Shadow Stalker
(Editor: Erica Jordan, Producer/Director: Lynn Hershman
Installation at the de Young Museum in San Francisco
Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica distinguished mention.
2020 Making of Three Decembers
(Commissioned Producer/Director/Editor: Erica Jordan
Premiered at Opera San Jose)
2019 Animation Outlaws
(Editor: Erica Jordan, Producer/Director: by Kat Alioshin - 2019 Feature Documentary)
Distributor: Gravitas Ventures
Annecy Film Festival
Spark Animation Film Festival
Woodstock Film Festival
Albany Film Festival
Slamdance Film Festival
2019 Seeing Slavery
Best Short Doc. - Amsterdam’s Around International Film Festival and Award
Award of Merit - Accolade Competition
Best Short Documentary - Los Angeles Film Festival Awards
Best Short Documentary - Cannes World Art Festival
Lonely Wolf Film Festival
FlICKERFAIR Film Festival
Semi-Finalist - CLIMAX Film Festival
Semi-Finalist - FilmHaus Film Festival
Award of Excellence - Impact Doc Award
2016 Painted Nails
(Co-Producer, Director: Erica Jordan, Editor: Erica Jordan)
Distribution: Kanopy.com
Cinequest International Film Festival, San Jose, CA
CAAMFest, San Francisco, CA
UNAFF Traveling Film Festival, Denver
Women’s Voices for the Earth, Montana
8th Annual CSM Asian Pacific America Film Festival
Seattle Asian American Film Festival
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival
Disorient Asian American Film Fest.
(Courageous Womyn Award);
Viet Film Festival
DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival
Sacramento Asian Pacific Film Festival
Chicago International Social Change Film Festival
ECO Film Festival, Kuala Lumpur
New Orleans Film Festival (Jury Award Finalist)
UNAFF IIntl. Documentary Film Festival, Stanford University;
California Film Institute, San Rafael Film Center
Main San Francisco Public Library
2015 In Plain Sight
Mill Valley Film Festival
Napa Valley Film Festival
United Nations Film Festival, Standford University
The International Film Festival on Human Rights, Buenos Aires
2006 Saving Malcolm X
Screened at San Francisco City Hall as part of a photo exhibit
2001 In the Wake
Mill Valley Film Festival (Official Premiere Presentation)
WinFemme Film Festival
Critic’s Choice Award - WimFemme Film Festible, Beverly Hills
U.C. Davis International Film Festival (Honorable Mention)
Black Point Film Festival, Wisconsin (Honorable Mention)
New York Intl. Independent Film & Video Festival (NY & LA)
1994 Walls of Sand
Honorable Mention -Slamdance Film Fesitval
Best Emerging Filmmaker Award - Rivertown Film Festival, MN
Women’s Iranian Film Festival
Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley
Light+Screen Film Festival, New York
Thesync.com (first contemporary feature on the web)Film Festival of Iranian Cineaste in Diaspora (Canada, New York)
1998 Tales From The Heart: The Belly Dance
Mill Valley Film Festival; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF
Painted Nails
“This beautifully wrought film gives voice to immigrant entrepreneurs working in nail salons made unsafe by a long-standing failure to regulate the US cosmetic industry. It highlights the long path towards policy change, which requires both individual and collective action.” - Carol Underwood, PhD, Senior Research Associate, Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Carol Underwood, PhD, Senior Research Associate, Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
In The Wake
San Francisco filmmaker Erica Jordan’s devastating drama of a sculptor’s emergence from a state of emotional inertia is the ultimate rarity in contemporary cinema: a work of art and a work of intelligence. Beautifully acted and graced with a subtle charm that ultimately proves both devastating and invigorating, this is a major work from a highly gifted artists
Phil Hall - Film Threat
Painted Nails
Providing a unique glimpse into the world of women, their nails, and the people who paint them, Painted Nails takes us from the simple pleasures of manicures to Van and her family's fulfilling transformation.
Cinequest Film Festival
Logic Paralyzes The Heart
"It has the depth, in addition to the inevitable breadth, that makes it at once a pleasurable experience of discovery, as well as a deep dive into a panoply of world views."
April 2022, Hyperallergic
Captivating Highlights from the 2022 Venice Biennale by Laura Raicovich