Edward Jordon

Berlinale-winning screenwriter. In the early 1990s, Edward Jordon wrote and directed "The Original Cast Album," an indie feature adapted from the stage play he scripted while pursuing a doctorate in Theater at New York University. In 1996, his feature documentary, "It'll Have Blinking Eyes & A Moving Mouth," co-directed with Emmy®-winning cinematographer Jeb Bergh, was invited to screen alongside Oscar® nominees and winners in the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Contemporary Documentary Series. Other prestigious venues for "Blinking Eyes" include the National Gallery Of Art in Washington, DC, the AFI Film Festival, the inaugural year of The Hampton's International Film Festival, and North American theatrical distribution at a time when very few documentaries were afforded that opportunity. He followed "Blinking Eyes" up with "Dogwalking On Jackson Crescent," a feature-length AIDS documentary distributed by Panorama Entertainment. In the early 2000s, Edward's micro-budget queer rom com, "Bollywood And Vine," starring American TV icon Skye Aubrey, premiered on Canada's PrideVision/OUTtv, the world's first 24-hour cable network exclusively dedicated to LGBTQ+ content. Years later, Edward had the pleasure of directing Ms. Aubrey again in his stage musical re-imagining of Mae West's "scandalous" 1926 play, "Sex." Edward is the grateful recipient of over twenty international screenwriting and filmmaking awards, including Omnicron Entertainment's New Century Writers' Award, sponsored by Francis Ford Coppola and the late Ray Bradbury. As screenwriter, Edward has developed projects for Sally Field's Fogwood Films, Gross-Weston Productions, and Renee Missel Productions. In between filmmaking gigs, Edward has worked extensively as a Theater Director, Director of Acquisitions for an international film sales agency, adjunct university instructor of screenwriting, special educator at the elementary and high school levels, and, as he affectionately says, "teacher of kids with a flair for the dramatic." With his own flair for the dramatic, Edward has created arts-based curriculum as a means of reaching students with special needs. His experiences as a special educator - and proud gay man - have found their way into "Whale 52 - Suite For Man, Boy, And Whale," the 2025 short film he wrote and produced with Daniel Neiden. "Whale 52..." had its global premiere at Berlinale 2026 in the Kplus section where the film won the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film. "Whale 52..." also screened in "Desires: Five queer short films of the 76th Berlinale."