DIRECTORS

Jen Schwerin is an award-winning filmmaker working in the USA and China. Her short film, Unspoken Code (2018), won Best Short Film at the Toronto Female Eye Film Festival, Best Drama at the Beijing Indie Short Film Festival, and Best Narrative at the California International Shorts Festival and screened at many festivals in the USA and around the globe. In China for 24 + years, she created the first MTV content from China and founded her production company, Tadaa! Media, in Beijing. She wrote in the writers' room of a Chinese web series sitcom, co-wrote a Chinese comedy series, and directed works in Mandarin and English. Throughout her time she has directed award-winning shorts and written and developed several Mandarin and English language feature film projects. Her adventurous life has certainly shaped her worldview. From walking solo across Tibet, negotiating complex situations in local and expat cultures, raising 3 kids in China, witnessing revolution and repression, and escaping danger, Jen has forged a nuanced geo-political, multi-cultural, and distinctly personal perspective that informs her work. Her characters, like herself, ask the question "who's doing the coding?" and push to create new codes, whether cultural, political or personal. Jen relocated to the US in 2019 where she has has been writing pilots and features.