Jennifer Jordan

Jennifer Jordan

Nacimiento : 1958-01-01, United States of America

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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.

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Jennifer Jordan

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3000 Cups of Tea
Director
This is the story of bringing education and peace to a corner of the world largely without either. It is also the story of Greg Mortenson (author, 'Three Cups of Tea') and of the difference his work is making in some of the most remote and dangerous parts of the world, his meteoric rise, and the scandal that brought him to his knees and nearly destroyed his mission.
Boys of Bonneville
Writer
This documentary tells the story of an unsung hero and self-made man, David Abbott Jenkins, who, with almost superhuman stamina and boyish charm, set out to single-handedly break every existing land speed record on his beloved Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah. More than a century later, many of "Ab's" records remain unbroken and the legacy lives on in his custom car. Looking like something Batman would have owned, the story comes full circle when Ab's son Marv, restores the 12-cyclinder, 4800-pound "Mormon Meteor" to its glory days for a ceremonial lap on the salt.
Kick Like a Girl
Writer
The story of what happens when "The Mighty Cheetahs," an undefeated all-girls soccer team, competes in the boys division. With humor and candor this documentary gets at the heart of the boy-girl issues and explores what "Kick Like A Girl" really means on and off the playing field. Kick Like A Girl reminds us all of the lessons learned in competitive athletics and how sports has been one of the most effective instruments of social change in our lifetime.
Women of K2
Producer
On some peaks in 2003, the statistics are impressive. For the K2 dubbed "wild mountain" or "ruthless mountain", only 240 reached the summit and more than 60 perished in the ascent. An unimaginable rate of one death in four to survive. And these statistics are even worse At the start of the 2004 climbing season, only five talented and determined women had reached the 8,616-meter summit of K2, but only two made it out alive. , they too perished while climbing other peaks of 8000 meters, these five women all disappeared in the mountains.
Women of K2
Sound
On some peaks in 2003, the statistics are impressive. For the K2 dubbed "wild mountain" or "ruthless mountain", only 240 reached the summit and more than 60 perished in the ascent. An unimaginable rate of one death in four to survive. And these statistics are even worse At the start of the 2004 climbing season, only five talented and determined women had reached the 8,616-meter summit of K2, but only two made it out alive. , they too perished while climbing other peaks of 8000 meters, these five women all disappeared in the mountains.
Women of K2
Writer
On some peaks in 2003, the statistics are impressive. For the K2 dubbed "wild mountain" or "ruthless mountain", only 240 reached the summit and more than 60 perished in the ascent. An unimaginable rate of one death in four to survive. And these statistics are even worse At the start of the 2004 climbing season, only five talented and determined women had reached the 8,616-meter summit of K2, but only two made it out alive. , they too perished while climbing other peaks of 8000 meters, these five women all disappeared in the mountains.
Women of K2
Director
On some peaks in 2003, the statistics are impressive. For the K2 dubbed "wild mountain" or "ruthless mountain", only 240 reached the summit and more than 60 perished in the ascent. An unimaginable rate of one death in four to survive. And these statistics are even worse At the start of the 2004 climbing season, only five talented and determined women had reached the 8,616-meter summit of K2, but only two made it out alive. , they too perished while climbing other peaks of 8000 meters, these five women all disappeared in the mountains.