DIRECTORS

Jen Schwerin is an award-winning writer/director based in DC. Her most recent short film, UNSPOKEN CODE, won Best Narrative Short Film at the Toronto Female Eye Film Fest, Beijing Int'l Film Fest, and California Int'l Film Fest, and screened at festivals around the world. In Beijing for 24 + years, (and another 8 years in remote Asia), she created the first MTV content from China and founded her production company, Tadaa! Media, to make branded entertainment in Mandarin and English. Through her adventurous life, from walking solo across Tibet, negotiating complex situations in local and expat cultures, raising 3 kids in China, witnessing revolution and repression, she's forged a nuanced geo-political, multi-cultural, and distinctly personal perspective. It makes her ask the questions - "who gets to make the rules, and what kinds of knowing are valid?" Now focused on writing screenplays for features and series, she explores these questions in all her scripts in the pipeline. Her work, while character driven, tends to gravitate towards thriller, action and sci-fi drama with a touch of female outrage, and she's leaning into it. Jen's background living in a totalitarian state, and trained in the mystical arts from an early age informs and inspires her current series - UNSPOKEN CODE - a psychological near-future thriller about the connection between emotion and intelligence. In her spare time, Jen guides students into their somatic wisdom and creativity through a transformative movement/dance practice that she teaches.