Jennifer Jordan — Director | Biography, Movies & Career

Biography

Jennifer Jordan is an award-winning author, filmmaker and screenwriter, with many years of experience as a journalist, program producer, radio and television news anchor, voiceover/narrator and speaker.

She has written and co-written several books including: Perfect Strangers with Roseann Sdoia, tells the poignant story of a woman who lost her leg in the Boston Marathon bombing. Southern Discomfort starring Tena Clark, is a story about a woman's coming of age in the Jim Crow South. The Babysitter starring Liza Rodman, which tells the story of a young girl who had a serial killer as one of her babysitters.

In 2016, Jordan directed, wrote and produced 3000 Cups of Tea, Investigating the Rise and Ruin of Greg Mortenson, a documentary that follows the meteoric rise and devastating fall of philanthropist Greg Mortenson. The film tackles the charges against him and his Central Asia institute, which was intended to build schools and educate girls in Pakistan from Afghanistan, a mission that has been dogged by scandal.

In 2010 Jordan wrote The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2. It tells the story of Dudley Wolfe, the first man to die on K2 during the dramatic 1939 expedition, whose remains Jordan found on the glacier below K2 base camp sixty-three years after his death. It won a National Outdoor Book Award in 2010 and was listed as a top-selling sportsbook in The Wall Street Journal.

In 2005 she wrote Savage Summit: The Life and Death of the First Women of K2 (William Morrow), which won the 2005 National Outdoor Book Award for Best Mountain Literary and was selected as Editor's Choice by the New York Times. She also created, wrote and co-produced the documentary Women of K2 for National Geographic, selected and awarded at numerous festivals. After the release of her first book and documentary, Jordan became a public speaker

In 2008 she produced and wrote Kick Like a Girl. She was also a jury member for the 2008 Ogden Mountain Adventure Film Festival. In 2009, she co-wrote the documentary Green River. That year she also wrote on the series Hooked: The Great White for National Geographic Television. In 2010-2011 she wrote and produced Boys of Bonneville: Racing on a Ribbon of Salt. In 2011 she directed, wrote and co-produced Hildi: A Love Story, a short documentary about the life of the remarkable Hildi Greenson. She was also project director on the NGO ImagineCleanAir.Org.

Jordan spent most of the 1990s at WGBH-FM in Boston where she anchored National Public Radio's All Things Considered. She has also worked with the famous WGBH Channel 2, as a producer, research host and writer. Before Jordan joined WGBH, she created, produced, hosted and marketed her own talk show, which aired on NPR's satellite network.

She co-runs Skyline Ventures Productions with her husband, cinematographer Jeff Rhoads, in Salt Lake City, where she spends as much time as possible exploring the Wasatch Mountains.