Screenings / Exhibits / Presentations
My films across narrative, documentary, and commissioned projects have been showcased at film festivals, museums, and libraries, with worldwide distribution and national PBS broadcasts.
2025 — Looking For My Anchor
(Director / Editor)
San Francisco Documentary Film Festival
California Film Institute — Screening + Conversation, Rafael Film Center
Sausalito Public Library
2025 — Special Operations | Finding Kids
(Commissioned — Director / Editor)
Screened at a gala event, San Francisco
2022 — Logic Paralyzes the Heart
(Editor: Erica Jordan; Producer / Director: Lynn Hershman Leeson)
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 Leeson)
Installation at the de Young Museum, San Francisco
Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica (Distinction)
2020 — Making of Three Decembers
(Commissioned — Producer / Director / Editor)
Premiered at Opera San José
2020 — Ways of the Rising Women
(Commissioned — Producer / Director / Editor)
2019 — Animation Outlaws
(Editor: Erica Jordan; Producer / Director: Kat Alioshin)
Annecy International Animation Film Festival
Spark Animation Film Festival
Woodstock Film Festival
Albany Film Festival
Slamdance Film Festival
2019 — Seeing Slavery
(Director / Editor)
Best Short Doc. — Amsterdam’s Around International Film Festival
Award of Merit — Accolade Global Film Competition
Best Short Doc. — Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards
Best Short Documentary — Cannes World Art Festival
Award of Excellence — Impact DOCS Awards
2016 — Painted Nails
(Co-Producer / Co-Director / Editor)
Cinequest Film Festival, San Jose
CAAMFest, San Francisco
UNAFF Traveling Film Festival, Denver
Women’s Voices for the Earth, Montana
CSM Asian Pacific American Film Festival
Seattle Asian American Film Festival
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival
DisOrient Asian American Film Festival (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)
United Nations Association Film Festival
California Film Institute, Rafael Film Center
San Francisco Public Library
2015 — In Plain Sight
(Director / Editor)
Mill Valley Film Festival
Napa Valley Film Festival
United Nations Association Film Festival, Stanford University
International Film Festival on Human Rights, Buenos Aires
2006 — Saving Malcolm X
(Director / Editor)
Screened at San Francisco City Hall as part of a photo exhibition
2001 — In the Wake
(Director / Editor)
Mill Valley Film Festival (Official Premiere Presentation)
WinFemme Film Festival (Critic’s Choice Award)
UC Davis International Film Festival (Honorable Mention)
Black Point Film Festival, Wisconsin (Honorable Mention)
New York International Independent Film & Video Festival (New York and Los Angeles)
1995 — Walls of Sand
(Director / Editor)
Honorable Mention — Slamdance Film Festival
Best Emerging Filmmaker Award — Rivertown Film Festival, Minnesota
Women’s Iranian Film Festival
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
Light + Screen Film Festival, New York
Thesync.com (first contemporary feature streamed online)
Festival of Iranian Cineastes in Diaspora (Canada and New York)
1998 — Tales from the Heart
(Director / Editor)
Mill Valley Film Festival
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
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